Making A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

As it shifts to a lighter weight the door closes.

Making a sliding chicken coop door.

Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. Long 2x4 vertically to the side of your coop wall with wood screws or corner brackets. Simple automatic chicken coop door. You can also make a diy automatic chicken coop door and instead of using electricity or batteries use the chickens themselves.

If there is a vertical support beam already in the coop this would be an ideal place. If there are none secure one 30 in. Find the area inside your coop that you would like your door to be. It was also time to replace the pop door that the chickens use to move from the coop to the run.

It serves its purpose but we recently had to replace the people size door and there s a leak in the roof that needs to be fixed. The idea is to use the combined weight of the chickens as they climb onto the roosting bar to sleep at night to pull the cables and pulleys and pop the door open.