• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Devaka Cooray
  • Carla Burke
  • John F Dean
  • Nancy Reading
  • Timothy Norton
  • r ranson
stewards:
  • Jay Angler
  • Pearl Sutton
  • paul wheaton
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • M Ljin
gardeners:
  • thomas rubino
  • Eino Kenttä
  • Jeremy VanGelder

Building area for 3-4 pigs, what would be best for floor of pole barn

 
Posts: 73
Location: Nova Scotia
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Building an pen area for 3-4 pigs, what would be best for floor in their section of the pole barn under renovation? I have driveway base on hand to use but have been told to invest in wood or concrete. Our location is wetish clay soil. Any thoughts?
 
Posts: 159
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
yes...concrete...preferably sloped to a drain..prolly would not hurt to go ahead and make concrete pend for the hogs...industrious bloody escape artists....seriously...best hog pens I have ever seen were concrete...with iron gates....
 
pollinator
Posts: 4176
Location: Tennessee 7b
334
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
If you are going to confine them, it needs to be built like Alcatraz. They will destroy ANYTHING when they are bored and their waste is so corrosive it will melt concrete faster than seawater.

If you are just letting them stay there for shelter and can go out freely, then you can get away with a lot less. We protect the walls with cattle panels and leave the floor plain (sloped to drain) with old hay or straw bedding. They root the bedding around but don't dig into the floor.
 
Posts: 24
1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Best for you or best for the pigs?

Best for you is concrete with a drain. Easy to clean.

Best for the pigs, in my humble opinion, is dirt. It's the closest to a natural environment I can provide within the confines of a pig pen.
 
I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay, I sleep all night and work all day. Lumberjack ad:
The new gardening playing cards kickstarter is now live!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulwheaton/garden-cards
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic