Easy to put up Animal Shelter

[bergere]

We do not have a lot of money but wanted to put up another Shelter.
So we bought a metal framed Canvas 12' X 20' car port with three sides at Costco.
This is the one we put in the miniature horse pasture.
We put the footing in Buckets put 60/80lbs of rocks in each bucket along with sand to filter between the rocks to add more weight. Then we used flat topped rebar with Climbing rope pulled very tight to anchor the roof on.
We put Cattle panels on the inside, so if the animals want to itch themselves they can.
We live in a area of very high winds. It has been up for a year and so far it is handling it all quite well.
Well enough that we plan to put another one up in the other pasture.
Since this pasture is used for my large riding ponies I am still not sure what kind of footing we may use.
They are not the most pretty of sheds but they seem to work well.

[thrillbilly]

Great idea. Like the saying goes "if it aint broke dont fix it"

I know a guy who takes rebar and drives it in on a angle then takes long pvc pipe and archs it across and then covers with dog wire and attachs plastic to it. Looks like a greenhouse.

[Kathy]

I've used hooped cattle panels to make shelters.

My finest, most unique shelters were hay houses. ;D Drive in 7' fence posts and place old but not moldy bales inside so they rest against the posts. Then drive a post in every so far to keep the bales upright. We used sheet tin for the roof and then placed bales over it-secured with baling twine! I had a lot of old hay from a cutting that just didn't get used. I also had a stack of not perfectly straight T posts so my houses were basically free!

It was a warm, waterproof home for ducks, geese and I even built some out in the pasture for the goats to run into if it rained.

I had ducks and geese set out in those hay houses and successfully raise their broods.