How To Install A Sliding Chicken Coop Door

There are lots of reasons to have a divided coop.

How to install a sliding chicken coop door.

The cord pulls the door up or lowers it. Titan incubators automatic chicken coop door timer unit. This is another unit just a unit no door that controls a pre installed automatic chicken coop door but at 125 it s an easier to swallow price than the chickenguard. Learn more here.

Better more robust motors will raise a 4kg coop door and not strain themselves. Just rotate the dial to your preferred high and low positive stops and just like a reversible motorized fishing reel the door will open and close smoothly. Typically cheaper automatic openers will raise and lower doors of up to 1kg in weight. Why divide your coop.

The heavy duty motor can be easily installed on any type of chicken coop door wood metal or plastic in just 15 minutes. A typical coop door can weigh 4kg however an aluminum counterpart measuring the same size will be 0 3kg. When the door is closed it sits behind the board on the bottom to thwart raccoons and other small predators. If your coop door requires an ac outlet use a solar powered or battery powered generator for off grid coops use a drill to create holes to open an area for the door leave animals out of the coop during installation so the noise doesn t bother them.

The reason the chicken pop hole door isn t at floor level is because most chicken coops need bedding. Not straining the motor is important for a smooth operation of the door. 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. There is no complicated programming.

You can purchase a metal door separately that s compatible with the unit. Just measure cut and nail into place working from the bottom up.