Make A Sliding Door For Your Chicken Coop

Greg walks us from start to finish through building a sliding chicken door.

Make a sliding door for your chicken coop.

Bolts are also used for the assembly of the door parts. Build a cheap movable chicken coop. The chicken tractor door frame is finished. Mark where the shelf tracks lay and draw the outline of your doorway.

Long 2x4 vertically to the side of your coop wall with wood screws or corner brackets. To measure your doorway size place your shelf in between the shelf tracks and to the side of your first vertical beam. If there are none secure one 30 in. The size is very comfortable for your chickens to go in and out with a 1 foot tall and 10 5 inch wide opening.

We have found issues with different kinds of doors shavings dirt and dust ge. It is made from heavy duty aluminum that doesn t rust nor break easily from external forces. 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.

Autodoor automatic chicken coop door. When the door is closed it sits behind the board on the bottom to thwart raccoons and other small predators. Autodoor is one of the most popular chicken coop door builders in amazon.