Making A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

Attach the front doors.

Making a sliding chicken coop door.

The ones i ve seen on youtube are brilliant and. The chicken tractor door frame is finished. Build a cheap movable chicken coop. I ve designed what i believe to be a more simple method of creating a self locking chicken coop sliding door.

The cord pulls the door up or lowers it. Bolts are also used for the assembly of the door parts. When the door is closed it sits behind the board on the bottom to thwart raccoons and other small predators. You can also make a diy automatic chicken coop door and instead of using electricity or batteries use the chickens themselves.

Note that you may need a third hinge directly in the middle depending on how tall your chicken coop is. Place where the sliding door of the chicken tractor is inserted. 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. There are no nails used in this chicken coop project.

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.