Fabric-Covered Swine and Hog Barns

Your farm’s success depends on the health of its hogs. Swine barn design is essential for the animal’s well-being and your relationships with consumers and stakeholders. With over 75 million pigs and hogs on farms in the United States, competition is fierce, and finding the balance between comfort and cost savings is essential.

To be happy and healthy, hogs must be raised in an environment that supports their growth and minimizes the spread of disease. Your pigs also need protection from harsh weather and predators. Calhoun Super Structure’s fabric-covered swine buildings protect your pigs by providing a temperature-controlled environment that shields them from excess sun and rain while keeping out predators. Learn more about the benefits of fabric-covered hog barns!

The Perfect Solution for Healthy Hogs

You want to raise healthy pigs and ensure that your sows produce enough piglets for continued production. To do that, you need to provide your pigs with a comfortable and protective home. When pigs are stressed, their general health suffers. Living in unideal conditions may increase stress levels in swine, reducing their quality of life and affecting their immunity and meat quality.

Proper swine housing protects pigs and provides the ideal environment for growth. Well-designed fabric-covered swine buildings help solve many health and behavioral challenges in barren, conventional conditions. The buildings let fresh air and natural light in while shielding pigs from rain, high winds, and other harsh weather conditions. The right building type also helps reduce the risk of disease in swine and gives them room to move about. Hog barns also make working with the pigs easier and reduces time spent on management tasks like feeding and handling.

Along with protecting the health and well-being of your hogs, you need to defend them from intruders. Pig thieves may steal hogs for various reasons, whether to sell them on the black market, eat them, or attempt to save them from being slaughtered. Predators may also try to seek out pigs for their next meal. A fabric-covered hog building helps keep human thieves and animal predators from accessing your swine, protecting your farm’s productivity and profits.

Benefits of Calhoun’s Hog and Swine Barns

When considering upgrading your farm with fabric structures, you want to understand the benefits. Calhoun’s fabric-covered structures protect your pigs from intruders, stress, and the elements. We customize the design and build of your hog barn based on the size of your operation and your specific needs.

When you install one of our fabric-covered swine structures on your farm, expect the following benefits:

Natural Lighting

A pig’s exposure to sunlight could increase the amount of vitamin D in its meat, improving the pork’s nutritional profile. Ample natural light also benefits pigs’ well-being and the overall quality of the meat they produce.

Our fire-retardant fabric offers up to 19% translucency, and our non-fire-retardant fabric offers up to 16% translucency. Both options allow for plenty of natural light, improving your animals’ quality of life and meat production. The structures also provide adequate shade — since pigs can’t sweat to cool down, this design is valuable for preventing them from becoming overheated.

Excellent Ventilation

The hoop shape of our swine barns and the fabric membranes used to build them ensure ample ventilation in the structures. Better ventilation helps to reduce the spread of airborne diseases. It also reduces the moisture levels in a barn, inhibiting mold and mildew growth. We also offer several options to improve airflow, such as wall vents and panels.

Weatherproof Materials

No one wants to sit in the rain, including your pigs. The fabric on our hog buildings is well-ventilated yet weatherproof. It keeps rain and snow from dripping into the interior, keeping your pigs clean and dry even on the wettest days. We also conduct a site-specific analysis to understand how the unique terrain impacts the weather’s effects on your structure.

Temperature Regulation

When pigs get too hot, they experience heat stress, which may lead to gastrointestinal distress and death. Animals typically have two ways to transfer heat from their bodies: by sweat or panting. Pigs don’t sweat, and they have relatively small lungs, which makes panting inefficient. Those factors, plus pigs’ relatively thick skin, make them more prone to heat stress than other animals.

Hog barns must be able to regulate temperatures on even the hottest of days to keep your pigs cool and comfortable. Since our fabric-covered structures are well-ventilated and help reduce moisture buildup, they offer an ideal way to help pigs stay cool. Our fabric structures are also thermally non-conductive, so heat transfer occurs at a lower rate. This keeps interiors less prone to becoming hot and humid, even on the warmest summer days.

Free-Span Interior

Free-span structures provide a large open area without internal support. This gives your pigs room to move about freely. A free-span interior also helps improve airflow in the barn, reducing the risk of airborne diseases.

Improved Appearance

While aesthetics is likely lower on your list of priorities, an enhanced appearance is always welcome. Structures made with translucent fabric add openness to your farm setup, keeping a light and airy feel that benefits workers and animals alike.

Elevated Energy Efficiency

A professionally engineered fabric structure allows for more natural light, reducing your reliance on artificial lighting sources during the day. This makes your structure more energy-efficient and boosts your farm’s sustainability efforts.

Corrosion Resistance

Once you’ve selected a swine barn, you want a structure that will last. Calhoun’s fabric-covered structures feature galvanized steel on the interior and exterior. This steel resists rust and corrosion, maximizing the structure’s longevity while reducing its maintenance requirements.

Fully Customizable

Whether you want to completely revamp your pigs’ living space or add an additional barn to your farm, we will work with you to build a structure that is customized to your exact needs. We’ll make it possible to add troughs, feed bunks, and fans to design the ideal swine barn for your operation.

Learn More About How Calhoun Super Structure Will Meet Your Swine Housing Needs

Since 1992, Calhoun has grown into a leading, full-service manufacturing company, providing the agriculture industry with expertly engineered fabric structures for operations of all sizes. We’re committed to delivering satisfaction to every one of our customers, using unique engineering design elements that result in a more robust, more resilient structure.

We offer standard fabric structures and customizable swine housing structures based on your needs and budget. Our strength is in our structure. Request a free custom quote and enjoy the benefit of fabric structures!