This week the first real winter storm blew in and Heather and I decided it was time to build the pigs a real winter shelter. We expanded on a concept from last year where we had bent a couple of fencing panels into a hoop shape and covered them with some extra roofing material. Basically, I pounded in a couple rows of metal T-posts, bent the fencing panels into hoops with the ends braced by the T-posts, surrounded this with some old metal roofing panels that we had and covered the top with a sheet of plastic. (You can’t cover the bottom of the structure with plastic or the pigs will shred it.) We filled it with some old hay and the pigs loved it!

Quick, cheap and easy.