How To Build A Sliding Chicken Door

The problem with a simple pop door is that you have to lock and unlock it manually in the evening and at daylight.

How to build a sliding chicken door.

Add wires to your solar panel and if necessary make a frame for the solar panel so it sits on an angle. We would like sliding doors for a chicken coop. I suggested we use drawer slides to ease any swelling from the humidity and rain we have here occasionally. He also cut a channel for the door to sit in when down.

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. Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. Attach the solar regulator to the wall of the chicken coop. You ll only need to do this if the sun doesn t directly hit the panel.

Add the wires from the panel to the regulator. We are doing the finishing touches on our new chicken coop and wanted to share our new pop door build. 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. Dh bent conduit and ran it through the studs.

Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of your own. For the door itself dh used a piece of 1 thick oak board he had laying around. Attached a cable to it and it opens from the outside. The door would be a 2ft square all around.