Goat Pallet Shelters
- Delci Plouffe
- Jan 27, 2016
- 2 min read
Goats are a wonderful addition to a family! We appreciate them so much!
This summer, I spent some time building some shelters they could tuck into during the long, cold, deep winter drift days of Montana. Here is the outcome. They snuggle in and are quite happy!
These are so simple!
Materials needed:
3 pallets
3 2x4's from a torn apart pallet
Screws
Roofing Material
More pallet boards to enclose the sides so wind can't get through
One pallet is standing so it is at its tallest and the other two pallets are on their sides. The pallets are then screwed together. A 2x4 is screwed to the bottom, front to hold it all together. The roofing material chosen is then screwed to the top.
As you can see in this next picture, I enclosed the sides with more boards:
And I added a pallet on the front to help block the wind.
This is a frame of another pallet shelter:
I framed in a "porch" on two of the shelters I made. So they can get out of the sun but be cooler in the breeze in the summer months:
Again, on these pallet shelters I added a pallet on the front to block the wind more.
And I also screwed boards onto the outside walls to block more of the wind
Happy goats in the Montana winter!
There are so many good ideas on how to make a goat shelter! For me, especially considering cost, these work best for us because we can always pick up free pallets in our area. And for these shelters, we had the roofing material given to us for free after a porch on a house was torn off. So really, I only paid for some screws. That works for me!
What goat housing has worked best for you?
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