Old campers for mobile barns?

Friends of ours made mobile chicken coops out of discarded (free) campers.  They pulled out the furniture stuff and left the cupboards (took off the doors).  Chickie birds laid eggs in the cupboards.  So clever.

Wondering about doing the same for goats and sheep.  Anyone tried it?  We have a couple of local campgrounds that seem to have an abundance of abandoned campers.  Theoretically, a stripped camper 8x32 could hold 16 goats.  Figuring 16 sqft of sleeping area per goat.

Thanks heaps!

We have one for sheep.  They didn't like the windows and decided to go right thorugh it.  There were injuries.  We boarded it up.  

Campers generally have poor airflow and livestock need really good airflow, especially in bad weather, so this is something to consider when transforming the camper.  

Hi Nissa;
I don't see why that would not work.  At least for a while.
I am not sure how long it would remain movable with the original wheels.
If the original wheels failed you could build a slidable bottom and pull it where you want it to be.

The only downside I can think of, is old trailers are not very good-looking...
I would not want to bring them on my property and then 5-10 years later have to deal with disposing of the now (really ugly) old wrecked trailers...
Oh, and I would imagine the goats will thoroughly stink the place up after they test chew everything...  

It's a good repurpose if you already have one.  
I would not want to bring in any extra I have enough to do already.

r ranson wrote:We have one for sheep.  They didn't like the windows and decided to go right thorugh it.  There were injuries.  We boarded it up.  

Campers generally have poor airflow and livestock need really good airflow, especially in bad weather, so this is something to consider when transforming the camper.  

Thanks for the tip about the windows!  

thomas rubino wrote:

The only downside I can think of, is old trailers are not very good-looking...
I would not want to bring them on my property and then 5-10 years later have to deal with disposing of said of the now (really ugly) old wrecked trailers...
Oh, and I would imagine the goats will thoroughly stink the place up after they test chew everything...  

They are rather ugly.  Luckily, we're not visible from the road, so that's alright.  I figure there will be time enough later for making things pretty/ier.  And even if they completely trash the shell part, we can always repurpose the frame if it's in good shape, eh?  Or sell the cleaned up frame on to someone who'd like to make a tiny house on wheels, perhaps?