How To Build A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

Add wires to your solar panel and if necessary make a frame for the solar panel so it sits on an angle.

How to build a sliding chicken coop door.

A commercial or diy automatic chicken coop door is installed to keep your chickens safe from predators at night and to make it easy to let the hens out in the morning. We are doing the finishing touches on our new chicken coop and wanted to share our new pop door build. A chicken pop hole door should be 6 12 inches above the level of the chicken coop floor so that the bedding doesn t block the doorway or spill outside. You ll only need to do this if the sun doesn t directly hit the panel.

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 problem with a simple pop door is that you have to lock and unlock it manually in the evening and at daylight. Attach the solar regulator to the wall of the chicken coop. Add the wires from the panel to the regulator.

The old hinged door opened up to the inside. The ones i ve seen on youtube are brilliant and. The height of the chicken coop door from the ground outside doesn t matter as long as chickens have a ramp to access doors that are 18 24 inches high. Detailed wiring instructions here in description today i am using a linear actuator as a mechanism to automatically close and open a chicken coop door.

I ve designed what i believe to be a more simple method of creating a self locking chicken coop sliding door. Make sure its close to the antenna and battery.