portable hog house

Anonymous-0 · Feb 3, 2014

Anyone see any portable hog buildings around or are they a thing of the past? The ones I saw years ago were called hog havens. sure made finishing a small bunch of pigs easy. Just pull the building ahead its length when its time to clean between batches. Small hog guys went out of here years ago. anyone left using them?

Zachary Hoyt · Feb 3, 2014

I have a portable hog pen that I move every 2 weeks when the piglets come and every 2-3 days by the time they get up to weight. The pen is about 14' square and I have a 4x5 open front shed on skids that covers an opening in the fence on one side. We only do two piglets a year, so this is handy.
Zach

farmerwithmutt · Feb 3, 2014

guy in iowa still makes them called porta hut also directions on internet for building them. i like them for both pigs and calves . had a calf in one i dont know how it happened but wind got.it just right and flipped it over justin hasnt been the same since

danmcdonald · Feb 3, 2014

We call them country condos.

JD Seller · Feb 3, 2014

The ones we used to use where a an elevated slat floor type. You has a 10 x 20 floor half and a 10 x 20 shed half. The floors where just 10 foot oak 2x4s nailed to 3x12 runners on edge. When you had the two halves together you had a 20 x 20 pen with slats under all of it. I usually set the 3x12s up on a 8 inch concrete block. You could put 40 feeder pigs in one of them and finish them to market size without moving the floors. They worked real well.

After each batch we just pulled them ahead and hauled the manure out to the fields. When it was cold we would stand straw bales up around the bottom of the floors this kept the drafts off the hogs in the shed half.

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