A Quick Guide to Housing Sheep

A "Sheep Shack" - 8x8 shelter that is 4' tall. Made with 3.5 sheets of plywood for the walls, 2 sheets of plywood for the roof, and 13 2x4s. Easy to put together.

Two dry lot pens underneath my deck (which was their shelter). My deck is 16x24 and the pens underneath (including the deck) are 8x48 and 16x48. Pens made with 4' woven wire and T posts. Plastic step in posts were placed in between T posts because the wire wasn't tight enough and the ewes and lambs would go under the wire.

An 8x28 pen with a 4x4 shelter (similar to the "Sheep Shack"). At it's peak, it held 1 ram and 3 newly weaned lambs. And it held 5 adult sheep and three 2 month old lambs for a couple hours before shearing as a holding pen. Metal shed next to it is the "Feed Shack" -- just a simple 8x10 $200 shed you can buy from Lowe's or Home Depot. My uncle put it together with the help of my brothers and his son in an afternoon March 2013.

Ewes in a 64x24 winter pen. Just made with 3' plastic step in posts and 4' woven wire. Ewes never challenged the fencing until early April when the lambs were going through my makeshift gate and the ewes decided they wanted out too. Notice the corner how it has 2 step in posts for more rigidity.