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  • From: Mark Ludwig <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [permaculture] shelter for stock
  • Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 18:29:00 -0600

At 10:35 AM 11/18/02 -0700, you wrote:
I don't think that strawbale is a good idea for moveable structures, you won't be doing much pasturing in winter in Kansas anyway I don't believe so why strawbale. Strawbale is really only good for insulation if you are looking to cut costs strawbale is comparable to wood frame. We build moveable "chicken tractors out of pvc and chicken wire so one person can move it. At night we open these tractors and the chickens race back to the chicken house. In the morning we troll them with a bucket of grain, they follow us to the tractors and spend the day eating alfalfa, and austrian pea.

Good luck Meg,
Scott Pittman

I doubt you really need any kind of insulated building for cattle or sheep anyway. Just keep them out of the wind with either natural shelters like trees and valleys or with simple towable three sides shelters on skids. Other folks build shelters from stacks of large bales of corn stalks or soybean stubble piled to make a kind of cow courtyard. Even well adapted hogs should be OK if they can get into well bedded areas sheltered from wind , might want to look for Hereford hogs, this was a well adapted Northern pasture breed. It might be nice to have skid mounted buildings for cattle if they grow corn in your area, beef do fine eating corn stalks, especially if interseeded with rye, annual rye grass, brassicas etc.
M




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