How To Build A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

The ones i ve seen on youtube are brilliant and.

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. Make sure its close to the antenna and battery. Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of your own. Add the wires from the panel to the regulator.

I ve designed what i believe to be a more simple method of creating a self locking chicken coop sliding door. The old hinged door opened up to the inside. Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. 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.

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. 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.

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. 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.