Make A Sliding Door For Your Chicken Coop

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

Make a sliding door for your chicken coop.

If there are none secure one 30 in. Build a cheap movable chicken coop. Greg walks us from start to finish through building a sliding chicken door. 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. The mobile hen house door frame is made with the same boards as the structure. There are no nails used in this chicken coop project. The chicken tractor door frame is finished.

Mark where the shelf tracks lay and draw the outline of your doorway. To measure your doorway size place your shelf in between the shelf tracks and to the side of your first vertical beam. The cord pulls the door up or lowers it. 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. 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. Long 2x4 vertically to the side of your coop wall with wood screws or corner brackets.