Portable pig shelter

All the animals on the farm must do more than fill our freezer and grace our table. Beyond eggs,meat and broth,the chickens turn table scraps and pulled weeds in the compost pile, tend the next generation of poultry, and scratch and fertilize sparse pastures. The ewes and

Ask Jim Criger of Springfield, Mo., why he invented his pig tractors and he’ll tell you, “My pigs got out and I couldn’t catch them. It’s miserable to chase pigs.” His sturdy, mobile 8 by 16-ft. enclosures were modeled after chicken tractors. “I just made ’em bigger and stronger,” says Criger. The sides of each...

Quote: We have the same style pen as yours but we didn't bury the panels...there is even a few inches gap under some parts but in 8 years there hasn't been...

I need a shelter for the seven feeder pigs I am raising. They have a shelter right now, but they are outgrowing it. I was planning on building a...

Hog Sheds

This is a pig house, but I think it would be a perfect chicken shelter to get them out of all this rain!

Let's be real for a few moments. Can we? Because I'm going to come clean on something. When we brought the pigs home last May, I had good intentions on creating a separate space for Churchill, our boar. Because one boar with four gilts will eventually lead to...well, you know. But those good intentions are... Continue Reading →

Learn how to build a portable livestock shelter in todays video. If you need a livestock shelter that you can move by hand, this shelter is easy to build!