What do you use for a door?

[Hummingbird Hollow]

My first coop was about 5.5 ft tall on one end and 6 ft on the other. I used a regular interior door, cut down a bit for the large cleaning and access door. This year I'm building a large grow-out coop for meat chickens (and maybe some ducks) that is 4'X10' big, standing on 2' high legs, but is only 5' at the front and 4' at the back.

What do you suggest I use for a door. The door will be on one of the ends so it can't be much more than 4'tall.

Do any of you have door suggestions?

 

[BonRae67]

You could frame the wall and put the entire thing on hinges so the whole wall opens for cleaning or whatever.

 

[PapaChaz]

what's your siding going to be? just cut it out of the siding, frame around the edges and across, (I'd probably do a big X from corner to corner) put the hinges on it and let it go! Make sure you have a stop of some kind. I've usually cut these types doors from frame to frame, back about 3/4" so that it will fall on the framing for a stop, but I have seen them done with a stop nailed inside the stud to stop the door.

something like this one on a previous coop:


that was 4' tall and 2' wide

 

[PapaChaz]

You could frame the wall and put the entire thing on hinges so the whole wall opens for cleaning or whatever.

that'll work too, that's what I did on my new coop build, but I did it as double doors because it was 6' wide:

 

[Hummingbird Hollow]

that'll work too, that's what I did on my new coop build, but I did it as double doors because it was 6' wide:

PapaChaz, is there a center support/framing in the middle of your door? Also, what sort of latching mechanism are you using to hold it shut?

 

[PapaChaz]

PapaChaz, is there a center support/framing in the middle of your door? Also, what sort of latching mechanism are you using to hold it shut?

no center support in the middle of the door. It stops at the top and the bottom. Notice I framed all the way around both doors. I have a sliding latch in the center to hold the doors together, I put a carabiner on it instead of a lock. Also there is a barrel bolt at the bottom of each door with the catch mounted on the frame below the door. Has to be slid UP to open. These are real tight to work, hard for me even to get open. All three have to be opened for the doors to open.

 

[BonRae67]

that'll work too, that's what I did on my new coop build, but I did it as double doors because it was 6' wide:

Oh I love it. That is so nice. Maybe that is what I could build for my grow out pen.