Making A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

There are no nails used in this chicken coop project.

Making a sliding chicken coop door.

Attach the front doors. As it shifts to a lighter weight the door closes. The cord pulls the door up or lowers it. The ones i ve seen on youtube are brilliant and.

Bolts are also used for the assembly of the door parts. You can also make a diy automatic chicken coop door and instead of using electricity or batteries use the chickens themselves. 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. I ve designed what i believe to be a more simple method of creating a self locking chicken coop sliding door.

Note that you may need a third hinge directly in the middle depending on how tall your chicken coop is. The mobile hen house door frame is made with the same boards as the structure. Screw in two hinges per door one about four inches from the top of the door and the other about four inches from the bottom. When the door is closed it sits behind the board on the bottom to thwart raccoons and other small predators.

Place where the sliding door of the chicken tractor is inserted.