Make A Sliding Door For Your Chicken Coop

To measure your doorway size place your shelf in between the shelf tracks and to the side of your first vertical beam.

Make a sliding door for your chicken coop.

Autodoor automatic chicken coop door. The chicken tractor door frame is finished. When the door is closed it sits behind the board on the bottom to thwart raccoons and other small predators. Greg walks us from start to finish through building a sliding chicken door.

Long 2x4 vertically to the side of your coop wall with wood screws or corner brackets. Mark where the shelf tracks lay and draw the outline of your doorway. Place where the sliding door of the chicken tractor is inserted. If there are none secure one 30 in.

The cord pulls the door up or lowers it. The mobile hen house door frame is made with the same boards as the structure. Build a cheap movable chicken coop. Autodoor is one of the most popular chicken coop door builders in amazon.

Bolts are also used for the assembly of the door parts. We have found issues with different kinds of doors shavings dirt and dust ge. The door slides along a channel made by screwing a 1x4 on each side of the door then attaching another piece of 1x4 that s offset one inch from the first piece.