Making A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

Long 2x4 vertically to the side of your coop wall with wood screws or corner brackets.

Making a sliding chicken coop door.

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. You can also make a diy automatic chicken coop door and instead of using electricity or batteries use the chickens themselves. Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. The old hinged door opened up to the inside.

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. As it shifts to a lighter weight the door closes. If there is a vertical support beam already in the coop this would be an ideal place. It was also time to replace the pop door that the chickens use to move from the coop to the run.

I have had to replace the battery a couple of times but this build has really worked well in this instructable i ll be showing how to make an easy automat. Find the area inside your coop that you would like your door to be.