How to build a pigsty yourself

Grow pigs is better in the premises specifically allocated for this, and not along with another cattle. Build a pigsty with your own hands from any inexpensive, in your area, material. It is important to know the features, correctly calculate the size and proportion.

Pigs should be fine, then they will grow rapidly

Dimensions and layout

The sizes of pigsty depend on the livestock that you plan to keep. Metage on pigs at different ages requires different, as well as the number of animals that can live in one pen. To easier to navigate, the data is reduced to the table.

Livestock	Number of animals in the machine	Square on one head with tribal content	Area on one head when keeping on fattening
Khryaki.	one	8 square meters M.	8 square meters M.
Swords idle and pregnant up to 2 months	four	3 square meters M.	2 square meters. M.
Pregnant sows on the 3rd month	2.	6 square meters M.	3.5 square meters. M.
Pregnant sows on the 4th month	one	6 square meters M.	6 square meters M.
Safety sows with piglets	one	10 square meters M.	7.5 square meters M.
Pigs up to 5 months	10-12	0.6 square meters M.	0.5 square meters M.
Pig breeds tribal 5-8 months	5-6	1.15 square meters M.
Crybags tribal 5-8 months	2-3.	1.6 square meters. M.
Pigs feeding 5-6 months	twenty		0.7 square meters M.
Pigs feeding 6-10 months	fifteen		1.0 kV. M.

Based on these sizes and you need to plan a pigsty. It makes no sense to do a lot of contaminations of different area, because they mainly make two sizes of 3 * 4 m - for sowers with piglets and content of all the rest of the livestock and 4 * 4 meters - Machines for fattening.

If the width of the building, the machines (crates, pens) are located on both sides of the central passage. For convenient maintenance, the width of the passage is at least 1.5 meters. Total total pigsty width is obtained - about 10 meters. Long depends on the planned livestock. An example of a two-row location of machines - in the photo below.

Piliary Plan 18.5 * 7.5 m

If the building is unintently, the pens make on the one hand, the passage is already not recommended to work inconvenient. If necessary, it is better to make machines less deep or slightly less than the norm in size.

In addition, it is necessary to provide for walking - the summer ground with a canopy. In the warm weather of pigs, they spend the biggest part of the time on the street. It is well affected by the speed of the mass set. Also at this time, you can close the barn for repairs.

A good poverty design - with a fenced walking walking for each of the machines (see photos).

View from the street

This is before "settling"

This pigsty with a walking from the inside - each machine has its own way to the street into the fenced pound

It walks for piglets, more solid partitions will be needed for pigs.

If necessary, you can make a pigsty wider, with a pass from the back of the machines - for convenient maintenance. Similar option - in the following photos. Entrance to the pigsty on the one hand, walking - on the other.

Warded walking on the other side of the building

Pigarnik from Brous - Outside Sewing OSB (next photo)

Under the trimming bar. In such a pigsty without heating in winter + 15 ° C

Folded from old sleepers

Often building pigsties from a bar and even sleepers. They are obtained warm, sufficiently light. In order to do not blow from the gaps, they are cavalous, as a regular log house, and outside the sheet material (moisture-resistant plywood, OSB) and from above are painted. In general, the tree is considered not the best material for the pigsty - the pigs can greatly bite it, but if it's not to catch it for that, the surface is smooth, then the walls will be integer.

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Height of wall

The pigsty should be warm in winter, cool in summer, it should have good ventilation, which will provide fresh air and normal humidity. In this regard, very low ceilings should not be done - with small volumes, it will have to often do that it will not have the benefits of heating. Too high walls are large heating costs, which is also not good. The optimal option is 2.3-2.5 m ceiling.

The height of the walls is 1.7 m, the height of the skate is 2.5 m. Parosolation was laid on the rafters, there will still be insulation, the board approaches (without a attic)

Sometimes they make the ceiling bevelled, without a attic. It still is practically not used in any way, since there is an increased humidity. In this case, the walls are obtained by low - 1.7-1.9 m, and in the center the ceiling is raised to 2.5-2.8 m. This allows you to make the costs of walls with minimal, but increases the cost of the roofing device.

Interior decoration

The walls inside the pigsty are best shuffled, then bold or paint. Tells are disinfection and a good appearance, but until the wall spattered. Then the appearance is not the most attractive - until the next whitewash. In order to the walls did not stick the dirt, they are scrubbed by a resin divorced in gasoline. The height of this processing is about 1 meter. With such a wall, the dirt flies. It looks somewhat gloomy, but it is easy.

Another option is to beat the entire machine with boards around the perimeter, as the next photo. It is easy and to the cold wall in winter, animals are not leaning.

One of the examples of pigsty

Roof and ceiling

Ripper roofs make it more profitable to do one-way - less expenses. With a large width of the building, there are doubles, because when you fly over 8 meters the cost of a single-table roof device is almost the same as the duplex.

Regardless of the type of roof, the attic is rarely done. If they do, they do not use. Warf roof, as usual - mineral wool. From the side of the room, a vapor barrier membrane is stuffed, from the roofing material, it is closed with a waterproofing vapor-permeable film.

Pillarface Ceiling is usually born board and whites

Roofing material - any, most affordable in the region. This is usually slate, a soft roof or professional flooring. The ceiling from the inside is behed with a board, plastic or plywood, OSB.

Paul in Podarnica

The most difficult and ambiguous question is how to make the floor in a pigsty. Opinions are different. Here are the most common ways with their advantages and disadvantages:

Wood flooring. Move from the edged board of 50 mm thick, nourish closely or with a very small gap. Advantages - the floor is non-slip, warm. Disadvantages - it absorbs urine and smells, from high humidity swells, quickly destroys. Disinfection is possible, but it is difficult to carry out it, cleaning is not the easiest.

Wooden floors - a good option, but not the best
Concrete floors. With a high brand of concrete, the surface is smooth, water and smells almost does not absorb, it is easily clean, it serves a long, high humidity is not afraid. Disadvantage - Cold concrete, but there are several options for eliminating this minus:
- For the winter to the floor thrown down from the board shields.
- Make heated floor - heated from water heating or electrical cables.
- With a concrete floor, it makes it multi-layered, with heat insulating layers.
Asphalt coating. Non-slip, rather warm and reliable, but porous, washing hard, the particles remain in the pores, wash them out even "Karcher" problematic. Over time, acid and alkali eat the surface, it becomes sticky.
Earth floor. Of the advantages - only low cost. All the rest of the solid disadvantages: cold, absorbs urine, mixes with manure, it is difficult to clean, the smell is kept constantly. Another minus - pigs love to dig ground, and can well make a subpople under the wall and flush. What everything can end only to imagine. So the earth floor in the pigsty can only be used as a temporary option. Note that when the device of another floor, a decent soil layer will have to be exported, otherwise the amber will be indestructible.

With a large number of bedding, it is possible to keep piglets on earthlings
Brick, filled with concrete. On the rammed soil, tightly to each other, laid bricks with "Christmas tree". The gaps between them are poured concrete. Such a floor turns out the warmer of concrete, but it has all its advantages. The only minus is a fairly high price (unless you use a used brick).

By building a pigsty with her own hands, each owner is usually choosing from these options one that seems preferable to him.

Device slotted gender

A few words about urine relief and removing manure. Despite the widespread opinion on the uncleanness of pigs, they pretty quickly get used to the measurement in one place (there are exceptions, but infrequently). Therefore, many prefer to do double floors - there are some kind of trough from the concrete with a slope toward the ditch, and the slot floors are littered from above. The slots may not be throughout the area, but only in a certain zone. It is here and go "decent" pigs to deteriorate.

For convenient cleaning, the slot floor can be done in some one place.

Slotal floors are concrete, metal and plastic. Plastic and metallic are used for small piglets - the surface of the flooring makes a little ribbed and rough, the slot is very small.

Slotal floors for piglets

Concrete slotted floors produce serial. They have small hole sizes and wide jumpers. This is done to minimize injuries. In general, the design of the slotted floor greatly facilitates the work, it is easier to maintain purity in the pigsty.

Concrete slabs for slotted floor

In order to save it, sometimes they make a slit floor of thick boards. But this is not the best idea - for the gaps of the pigs can catch and unscrew the boards.

How to make solid

In order for solid gear, it is also easier to clean, along the machines make a ditch, and the floor has a bias towards these ditches (2-5%). The ditch is most often laid out of the brick and plastering. Next, it goes into the accumulative capacity, for normal outflows should also have a slope.

Concrete floor with docks for drain

The collected masses or are exported by special windows or pumped into pits for overloading and fermentation - to fertilizers. By the way, the lower part of the slot pilaf is made according to the same scheme, only the ditch is under the upper flooring, and not in the passage.

Insulated concrete floor

Whatever they spoke, but the most practical, relatively inexpensive and reliable Petarnik - concrete floor. In fact, he has two serious drawbacks. One has already spoken - it is cold in winter. The second - a large period of time takes on its final hardening (28 days from the moment of fill). If you pour the floor until the livestock lives in a summer chapter, it is not worth a hurry, and you can fight with cold. For example, make it insulated.

On the concrete floor over the insulation is not cold

For the arrangement of the insulated concrete floor in the pigsty, the soil is removed to a depth of 40 cm. The bottom of the recovery is aligned, tamper. About 10 cm rubble are poured, it is also a good trambet (it is better to pour and separate two layers of 5 cm to separate - there will be no cracks). On the ramble crushed stone, 5 cm of sand spill, tram so that the track does not remain from the leg. We put waterproofing from above (you can a dense polyethylene film), the insulation is poured - the ceramzite or granular foam glass. Ceramzite is cheaper, but better foam glass in granules (warmer 3 times and does not absorb moisture, which is very important). The insulation is trambed, but not so seriously, like a pillow of rubble and sand. The concrete of the brand 20 is poured (on 1 part of the cement take 2 parts of the sand and 4 parts of rubble). The minimum layer thickness is 3 cm, during the fill form the required bias towards the ditch.

If you do this, then the floor will not be so cold, it will have less soaked.

Regular cleaning

The need for cleaning is determined by the floor design. If this is an ordinary inclined floor, remove the manure has each feeding - three times a day. Slotal floors are mostly moistened once a day. An additional cleaning may be required if there are undisciplined animals - then take a broom or a shovel and bring the manure on the floor. But it takes it at times less time than when cleaning the usual floor.

You can clean with "Kercher"

Wash the floor in the pigsty is not easy from the hose. Much faster and better is obtained from "Kercher". First, animals may be afraid, then they climb themselves under the jet. It is necessary to wash them from a decent distance, otherwise there may be injuries.

Windows in Podnarnica

Without daylight, the pigs can do without, but then it is necessary to include lighting, and with constantly growing rates, these are unjustified costs that greatly reduce profitability. Because the windows are made quite large, but their total area should not be greater than the area of the floor - overly bright lighting makes animals aggressive. The best lighting is muffled light.

Metal-plastic windows are already put in pigsties

The windows are installed at an altitude of 1.5-1.7 meters, not less than half of them should be opened. It is necessary for airing - for a normal weight gain, optimal humidity and fresh air are necessary. And without venting, it is not achieved. And even in the pigsty there should be good ventilation, there should be no drafts, the animals are sick because of it. Therefore, or make double glazing in wooden frames, or put plastic. With them, the troubles are generally a bit - in circulation are convenient, easily clean.

Ventilation

As it has repeatedly been said, there should be ventilation in the pigsty. The most primitive way is to make exhaust pipes that begin soil under the ceiling and make the supplied holes. At the supply to install adjustable valves, on the exhaust pipes - the chiere (with the type of chicks - discs that can rotate opening / closing the lumen of the pipe). With their help, you can adjust the intensity of the air exchange.

Roof ventilation scheme

Often the role of the supply channels perform windows. This is not a good solution - they are located high in the pigsty, in which case a stagnant zone is formed below, namely below and there are pigs. Therefore, it is better to equip the supply holes above the floor of centimeters by 20, pick them up with metal lattices. Such ventilation works on the principles of natural air movement - warm climbs up, the cold comes in its place and all this festers the wind on the street. But it happens a full calm, and usually in the world that pigs are transferred to already bad. For such situations, fans are put in the supply holes. They are rarely included in the work, but they save the situation if there is no walking.

What makes pigs for pigs

When they build a pigsty with their own hands, the room on the machine tools is turned off using two materials:

cutting board 50 mm thick and racks for racks;
Metal pipes, leaf, corners.

The choice is actually simple: what is cheaper, with what you know how to work better, or a hundred consider more reliable. In principle, both options are not bad, have widespread.

The height of partitions is about 1 meter, each pen makes a separate entrance. The wickets should be fine, and simple bumps are unreliable, they are approaching with staddles and open the doors.