Is anyone raising rabbits and chickens?

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

I haven't yet built my chicken house and I know I want to raise rabbits soon.

I'm wondering if anyone has found clever ways to integrate the two beasties together that are helpful for them and efficient for us.

 

[nuthatched]

It's not recommended to do that, both species could majorly injury each other.

 

[janiedoe]

I know some people do it, but since my cats wander in and out of the coop, I doubt that would work for me. I would personally keep them seperated, at least by a wire wall.
I think it gets way too hot here to raise rabbits outdoors.

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

I'm really thinking more along the lines of shared walls, not shared living space.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I'm really thinking more along the lines of shared walls, not shared living space.

We kept our rabbit stackers in the barn where the chickens had free range

 

[LifeSimpleAndSweet]

We kept our rabbit stackers in the barn where the chickens had free range

Were the chicken nest boxes in there, or did the chickens just wander in and out?
I wondered about building the rabbit hutches onto an outside wall of the chicken house, but hadn't thought anything through.

Really, when I was a teenager, I had pet rabbits outside. I had anywhere from 12 to inumerable kits when the bucks magically squeezed through the smallest of openings.

It was a wooden hutch with wire floors and walls. It was extremely difficult to keep the bucks separate and, of course, they chewed on everything like they were starving to death. I want to begin economically but maybe wire cages will be cheaper in the long run...

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Were the chicken nest boxes in there, or did the chickens just wander in and out?
I wondered about building the rabbit hutches onto an outside wall of the chicken house, but hadn't thought anything through.

Really, when I was a teenager, I had pet rabbits outside. I had anywhere from 12 to inumerable kits when the bucks magically squeezed through the smallest of openings.

It was a wooden hutch with wire floors and walls. It was extremely difficult to keep the bucks separate and, of course, they chewed on everything like they were starving to death. I want to begin economically but maybe wire cages will be cheaper in the long run...

The chickens just ran loose and laid where they wanted.

 

[Smokerbill]

I've considered the same, and might hang a couple wire hutches above the floor of my chicken run someday. If you haven't already, check out Joel Salatin "Raken" houses on youtube. Raken is a combination of the words, rabbit/chicken.