Re: ot Hog raisen

Posted by JD Seller on November 04, 2018 at 15:46:54 from (208.126.198.213):

In Reply to: ot Hog raisen posted by Al Baker(pumpman) on November 04, 2018 at 13:22:59:

I raised a lot of hogs on portable slat floor buildings. 10 x 20 foot sections. All slat floored. One half with a building over it with drop doors for air and you could close them in winter. I built them. You would lay out three 3x12 rails stood up on edge. Then take oak 2x4x10 boards and nail across the rails. Space them 3/8s apart if green and 1/2 if season lumber. Bolt 4 foot 4x4s to one side and ends for the fence part. Nail rails long ways on the 4x4s. On one build the floor the same. Put six foot 4x4s on one side and four foot ones on the other. Build a slant rafter roof on this half. Steel roofing and inch pine siding. Two four foot wide windows on the front that hinge out at the top that you could prop open in the winter. A four foot wide door in the middle for the hogs to go in and out. On the out side wall two four foot wide doors that hinged up for ventilation in the summer.

You would put an open section and one roofed section together to make a 20x20 foot square pen. Set the 3x12 runners up on a few 8 inch concrete blocks. You could finish 35-40 hogs on one set of slats. Use gravity waterers and round hog feeders. I had twenty sets of buildings in 1980. They cost me around $1500 a set then using rough sawed lumber.

You had enough room under the slat floors to finish one group of hogs. Then just pull the sled/sheds forward and then use a loader to load the manure. On two farms I had some old concrete granary floors to set them on. That made the clean up a little easier.

Nice thing is they could be hauled anywhere in sections. I got out of hogs in 1987 and sold all the buildings for $2500 a set.

You could do some thing like that today with the concrete slats they make and those would not rot over time. I would get 8-10 years and would have to replace the floor boards in mine.

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