Make A Sliding Door For Your Chicken Coop

Bolts are also used for the assembly of the door parts.

Make a sliding door for your chicken coop.

Place where the sliding door of the chicken tractor is inserted. We have found issues with different kinds of doors shavings dirt and dust ge. The chicken tractor door frame is finished. It is made from heavy duty aluminum that doesn t rust nor break easily from external forces.

When the door is closed it sits behind the board on the bottom to thwart raccoons and other small predators. Mark where the shelf tracks lay and draw the outline of your doorway. The size is very comfortable for your chickens to go in and out with a 1 foot tall and 10 5 inch wide opening. The cord pulls the door up or lowers it.

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. Autodoor is one of the most popular chicken coop door builders in amazon. The mobile hen house door frame is made with the same boards as the structure.

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. If there are none secure one 30 in. Build a cheap movable chicken coop.