Horse Shelter Kits from Twister

Twister portable horse shelters combine versatility, longevity, safety and low maintenance costs.
With a little effort you can provide your horses with sturdy and handsome pasture protection from the weather. The portable horse shelter is three sided to provide protection from the prevailing winds. These horse shelter kits will outlast wooden shelters by many years; horses just love to chew on wood.

Horse Shelter Kits Easy to Erect and Portable

Horse shelter kits are easy to erect and comes with detailed bolt-together instructions. These covers are portable. Most people put them up onto either wood skids or onto drill stem pipe skids and drag them from the side. Skids are not supplied.

Portable barns and temporary animal protection will save you time and money. Your animals will be healthier when in shade and the well ventilated enclosures, instead of out in the open sun all day. These products are metal, very easy to assemble, reasonably priced, and simple to re-locate. You can order directly online, saving yourself time. All products we carry are made with high quality galvanized steel, and most ship within 24-48 hours.

The shelter must be built on either well-drained land, or the floor built up to make sure it stays dry. The open side should face away from the prevailing wind.

Horses do need shelter and what can be considered "adequate" will vary according to the season. In summer, a horse needs protection against sun, rain, wind and hail. In winter, cold, snow and wind are the elements to consider.

Healthy horses with a full winter coat can stand a lot of cold as long as they are dry and out of the wind. In the summer, horses are vulnerable to flies. The best long-term solution for all season protection is to build a three-sided shelter. The size of the shelter, its location and what it's made of are all important elements to consider.

Equine Behaviour a Consideration

Owners need to consider herd instincts and group pecking orders when deciding on windbreak or shed design. Those areas housing one or two horses that are compatible with one another will allow for an enclosed shed with three or four sides. These structures should be similar in size to recommendations for stalls, a 10X10-foot minimum for one horse. The same type of structure will not work in pasture with large numbers of horses or bands of horses with large ranges in horse dominance orders. An enclosed, four sided structure may increase injury to horses on the low end of the herd dominance order by the more dominant horses. This type of structure may be inefficient because dominant horses will keep others from having access.

Horses have a very strong social order, and for safety, the shelter should be wide rather than deep. Otherwise boss horses standing in the entranceway can block other horses from going in, or a lower status horse can get trapped in the back

Owners should consider two or three of these structures spread about the area because one long, continuous structure is easily guarded by dominant horses. Structure dimensions will depend on the degree of herd dominance problems.

In situations where aggressive behaviour becomes such a problem that horses need to be separated; the low end of the herd order generally will need better refuge because they are the ones that are usually in the least favourable body condition.

Anything equine must be built strong enough to withstand considerable abuse. Flimsy cover will not last long and can become unsafe.

Dimensions and Price

The Horse Shelter kit, Model HS15, measures 15' 9" long, with a height of 8'7" at it's highest and sloping to 7'5" at the front. It is 9'6" from the entrance to the back wall and weighs 830 lbs. It is made out of long lasting 24 gauge Galfan steel and powder painted structural steel. The structural steel (the frame) is red in color.

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