An exciting weekend at the hobby farm, finally finishing up the DIY shelter! The previous shelter worked, but it was a little cramped for the alpacas and Mary, and they were reluctant to go in because of that unless it was very heavy rain. So we added in an extension that was approximately 16ft x 8 ft, which really adds some serious square footage.
It's a little wonky looking, but we didn't use any new materials other than hardware and the roof panels themselves! Everything else is either wood and posts we salvaged from the previous owners, or pallets I've accumulated over the years. So the wood is all a little warped, but it's still solid even if it's not pretty.
The pallet wall isn't super waterproof, but I was mainly using it as a wind block for them. I always save my feed bags since they're such thick plastic, and I used poultry staples to secure them to the pallets to fill in the gaps. I like doing it this way as well so that once we hit summer, I can pull the staples and open the slats back up for some airflow
Still have some work to do, like caulking where the panels join and putting up a tarp perpendicular to the pallet wall so its more protected for our annual snow, but overall a big improvement I'm glad to get done right before we hit the cold rain season.