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. Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of your own. Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old. Attach the solar regulator to the wall of the chicken coop. 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. 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. We are doing the finishing touches on our new chicken coop and wanted to share our new pop door build. The problem with a simple pop door is that you have to lock and unlock it manually in the evening and at daylight.

The old hinged door opened up to the inside. Add the wires from the panel to the regulator. Add wires to your solar panel and if necessary make a frame for the solar panel so it sits on an angle. It was also time to replace the pop door that the chickens use to move from the coop to the run.

Make sure its close to the antenna and battery. 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.