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.

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

There are no nails used in this chicken coop project. It is made from heavy duty aluminum that doesn t rust nor break easily from external forces. To measure your doorway size place your shelf in between the shelf tracks and to the side of your first vertical beam. When the door is closed it sits behind the board on the bottom to thwart raccoons and other small predators.

The cord pulls the door up or lowers it. Greg walks us from start to finish through building a sliding chicken door. The mobile hen house door frame is made with the same boards as the structure. Build a cheap movable chicken coop.

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. We have found issues with different kinds of doors shavings dirt and dust ge. Bolts are also used for the assembly of the door parts.