Can chickens and rabbits live together in the same coop?

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Just adding some input; I got a rabbit and it lives separately from the chickens, but outside still. When I am home I let it in the chicken run and they get along fine. They aren't by any means 'friends', but they don't mind each other. I think it is a "you leave me alone I leave you alone" arrangement; like bees. I live near San Francisco in a SUPER hot part of California (last summer we had some 115 days, but our summer average is about 105) so if you live somewhere like me don't let it out to run with the chickens during the summer (bring it inside) because it will over heat VERY fast, especially if it is running/hopping. Just because your chickens are fine to be outside in that weather if you just spray them with the hose dose NOT mean your rabbit will. That's the only health problem that I've run into so far with it (it was 99 degrees yesterday and the summer has barley started [*groan*]). So I would say part-time rabbit and chicken co-existence is fine.

-G

 

[Rainbowpaws5]

I would just make sure the chickens can't sit on the cage and poop over the rabbit. Rabbits can get cocci easy from chickens. Otherwise they can share a building just fine. A friend of mine was breeding rabbits and chickens for showing and had them all in 1 building. The rabbit pens lined one side of the coop and the roosts the other. The mesh went all the way to the ceiling to prevent chickens from sitting on top of rabbit pens. I've also attached painter's plastic or tarps to the top of pens in my coop to keep chickens from pooping on quail or other chickens I've sperated.

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