Super easy rough shelter ideas

[poiuytrewq]

So my old boy it seems really isn’t handling being in. He’s always had a bit of a snotty nose on and off. That worsened and he’s spent a lot of late summer on steroids (100 per day ?)
He also gets a bit stiff.
He was significantly better, we were able to drop the steroids all together when he stopped coming in.
That’s fine at the moment but I know I won’t be able to sleep at night with him stood out alone! He is also completely miserable in wet/windy weather.
I have a turn out pen with an all weather surface and draining right to the side of my tiny yard. So he can be “In” with the others but not stood shut in a stable.
I’m wondering if I can make a kind of lean too type shelter in the corner on the pen off the side of my stables (which are just basic wooden sloping roof on skids)
There’s post and rail around the pen so it could be fixed to that to make it secure.
I wondered if I make a square frame, obviously with extra strengthening wood inside and nailed some kind of roofing panels to it. Then (somehow?!) use that as a roof, attach 2 wooden posts to the stable to use as supports that side and two the other.
I’m not going to wall it in completely or use bedding as firstly the surface is soft and secondly it defies the whole idea of it being dust free.
Ideas, photos?
Might scaffolding work (?‍??)

 

[meleeka]

You could make a frame with a sort of grid for the roof and use onduline or tin sheets on the roof. That’s pretty simple if you have someone handy to help. Basically just screw to whatever solid you have. I have met posts in my home made shelter for the uprights to go in. It’s pretty solid. You could also use fence panels for a side if you need it to be slightly enclosed, or you might just be able to use the end of the stable.

 

[SEL]

I've seen a lean to coming off the back of a stable block before. Both the supporting posts were sunk into concrete but the roof just looked like a re-purposed shed roof.

My physio has cut a hole in the back of a stable (faces onto yard, backed onto paddock) so one of her ponies can use it as a shelter and come and go as they want to. I've no idea if you can still close it off behind or if it was a permanent hole they made but it works well.

 

[Abacus]

My old livery had some plans (might have found them online?) for making a field shelter out of pallets, if you have some knocking about. That might suit the dust-free requirement as they'd give some ventilation. Alternatively heras panels (the metal meshed builders type) with a makeshift roof? They cost about £12 each with fixings to stand them in and connect them to each other.