Diy Chicken Coop Door Opener
But since we both work full time jobs an automatic chicken door had to be considered too.
Diy chicken coop door opener. It is made from heavy duty aluminum that doesn t rust nor break easily from external forces. In this instructable i ll be showing how to make an easy automatic chicken coop door opener. The chicken coop was purchased from pets station. Explaining our diy off grid automatic chicken coop door it s solar powered.
Here s the chicken coop with the addition of an automatic door opener. Using a couple of parts off ebay we re able to set up a 12v door opening system. 9 minutes when we designed our chicken coop automating our chicken coop door was a necessity. We recently had all of our chickens 4 of them killed by a fox and as you could imagine it wasn t a pretty sight.
For anyone who keeps chickens the ever present threat of predator animals like foxes is always a worry. Red tool house homestead 22 021 views. The size is very comfortable for your chickens to go in and out with a 1 foot tall and 10 5 inch wide opening. There are some expensive automatic chicken doors that are available for purchase but i decided to design and make my own.
We wanted to make our chickens easier to take care of by building our own automatic chicken coop door opener. We had seen plans for automated chicken coop doors. There was already so much to consider from the design and quantity of nesting boxes to roosts and space.