How To Build A Sliding Chicken Door

For the door itself dh used a piece of 1 thick oak board he had laying around.

How to build a sliding chicken door.

Make sure its close to the antenna and battery. We want to know what we need to buy to make it a door we attach to it slide to the side so we can open and close it easily. Add wires to your solar panel and if necessary make a frame for the solar panel so it sits on an angle. Chicken coop sliding door the shed that houses my chickens is quite old.

You ll only need to do this if the sun doesn t directly hit the panel. He also cut a channel for the door to sit in when down. The problem with a simple pop door is that you have to lock and unlock it manually in the evening and at daylight. 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.

We are doing the finishing touches on our new chicken coop and wanted to share our new pop door build. The door would be a 2ft square all around. Add the wires from the panel to the regulator. We would like sliding doors for a chicken coop.

I suggested we use drawer slides to ease any swelling from the humidity and rain we have here occasionally. 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. Attach the solar regulator to the wall of the chicken coop. Hopefully this will give you a few ideas of your own.