madelynmccabe's Thread: Lets See Everyone's Herd Houses!

[frustratedearthmother]

I needa build a pig house...any ideas? @Baymule - can I borrow your pig hut?

 

[NH homesteader]

Oops

 

[Mini Horses]

That is a nice simple but good looking chicken hut. I'm wondering how easy it is to actually move?

Thank you. Easy to make & move. I have two with legs under the base, hand moving takes less bending. These are set up for use with broodies and young chicks, grow outs, so legs left off.

I can easily lift the bar at rear and move it. Hook rope to mover and move, etc. Used lighter ext plywood, 2X2 at inside corners and roof cross, lightweight roofing, to be able to move. Wind won't be an issue with lower base. My pig ones are heavy & have eye bolts to pull/lift with tractor, heavier lumber.

These are basic, can be used for lambs & goats, too. They are a "little" 3 sided run-in.

 

[Baymule]

I needa build a pig house...any ideas? @Baymule - can I borrow your pig hut?

My lambs are using it right now, we hauled 3 to slaughter and only 2 ewes are using it. They will soon join the flock and meet their future Baby Daddy. You can come get the Hawg Hut, but will have to return it in the fall when we get another batch of hogs. LOL

 

[frustratedearthmother]

but will have to return it in the fall when we get another batch of hogs. LOL

Like this fall? In a couple weeks? LOL

I keep telling myself it's fall...but the weather and the 120 heat index today keep telling me it's NOT!

 

[Baymule]

Like this fall? In a couple weeks? LOL

I keep telling myself it's fall...but the weather and the 120 heat index today keep telling me it's NOT!

No, next fall, 2017. LOL We have plenty hog meat in the freezer...well, not BACON! But does anyone EVER get enough BACON? With the roosters we butchered, the hog from spring 2016 and some venison from a neighbor, we have a good stash of meat for awhile. We can probably get by with butchering a hog every other year. And we'll pick up our lambs from slaughter in a week or two, we are keeping 1/2 of one for ourselves.

But if you don't want to do that hauling back and forth, just throw 'em up a hoop house and toss a lot of hay in it. You can bend over a cow panel, stab some T-posts in to wire it to and put plywood up for the back. Drill holes in the edges of the plywood and wire to the cow panel, tie a tarp over the whole thing and TA-DA!!! Pigs have a house!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Well, technically, I have a couple places I can put them for farrowing...just haven't picked the best spot yet. I'm thinking I'll let the sow into the now empty former feed room of the 'red shed.' It's big enough that she can farrow in there and not be so cramped that she would squarsh the babies. Or, there's the hoop house that the bucks are using now. It's about 20 feet long and is easily divided in half when needed. I just need to keep a close eye on this gal and hope I can predict her delivery enough in advance to put her in a suitable place. (but thanks for the offer!)

 

[Mini Horses]

OF COURSE you know that she will pick her own spot........
unless she just cannot get out of where you put her. Plus, get her there a couple weeks ahead to settle.

Ahhh, silly FEM. Lots of straw!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

OF COURSE you know that she will pick her own spot........

Oh no she won't! I will be penning her up within the next couple weeks and she'll have them in whichever pen I pen her in, lol. (say that 5 times real fast, lol)

Can't get straw here.... lotsa shavings with a layer of hay on top.

 

[Mini Horses]

BRAVELY said!!!

Use hay. They can more easily nest to cover & hind them. We'll see how this goes.

Mine are due 1st week of Dec, normally cold here. I have 2 houses there so they can each have one. Let's see if they use them or try to share. May have to divide the pen when due.
Will see where the nesting goes, then decide.

They have always been in the one like peas in a pod. Hope they change to farrow.