Pics of Rabbit Cages

[wolftracks]

Oh if Bill was alive I'd have him on this post and building. My cages aren't turning out the way I used to have him build for me.

NB I have a question. What are you using to frame the doors with?

 

[NellaBean]

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For these, some stuff made specifically for the job. Go down to the door edge guard trim sort of near the bottom.

https://www.bunnyrabbit.com/brcom.html


I also use rolled rubber/plastic stuff you can find in the garden area of lowes or home depot....mean to be put on the edge of metal landscape trim.....

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I use yesterdays news its safe and they love it you can pick it up at a local pet store or farm store or even fleet farm. I just put the litter box whereever they have been pooping and they get used to it just like that.

How would that work? My 3 young doe-lings like to poo and pee in their food bowl

 

[NellaBean]

When mine do that, I move the litterbox to that corner and move the food/water dishes to a middle wall. I had a little buck who wanted so constantly sit in the food dish in the corner and was using it like a litterbox. Would have been easy to just swap it out for a litterbox and put the food dish elsewhere.

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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I use yesterdays news its safe and they love it you can pick it up at a local pet store or farm store or even fleet farm. I just put the litter box whereever they have been pooping and they get used to it just like that.

How would that work? My 3 young doe-lings like to poo and pee in their food bowl

You're right. Baby rabbits are very bad about pooing and peeing in a food crock. I have better luck using metal feeders that have a wire bottom. Sometimes the young ones will mess in them as well but not nearly so much. Also with crocks I have some rabbits that will flip them over food and all. Too much waste when they do that or soil the food.

If I had those lock on type crocks they probably wouldn't flip those but I don't think they made those when I started my "equipment buying". I try to use what I have. For the most part mine are fed using the wire bottom feeders.

I'm sure a lot of ppl know this: rabbits don't want to eat their rabbit pellets if they start to get soft. This happens when the weather is rainy or humid here. I check my rabbits food if it is not gone in about 2 days. I pinch it between my fingers and if it is soft I feed that to the chickens which they love and give the bunny fresh.

 

[shelleyd2008]

None of my birds (chickens, ducks, geese, etc) will eat rabbit pellets, if the bunnies don't eat them they get wasted...I have weird, spoiled animals

 

[bobwhitelover]

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I use yesterdays news its safe and they love it you can pick it up at a local pet store or farm store or even fleet farm. I just put the litter box whereever they have been pooping and they get used to it just like that.

How would that work? My 3 young doe-lings like to poo and pee in their food bowl

Haha maybe you could get a jay-feeder or some type of food bowl that is off the ground so they don't poop in it any more.

 

[NellaBean]

Aaaaaaaaaand cage panel #2 is done.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Wouldn't they hurt themselves jumping on the upper parts? I had a mini rex doe that broke her back once just by jumping into her nest box

The front of it was only about 3" high.

 

[NellaBean]

I can't imagine they would. I've had bunnies with hammocks in their cages before and they hopped in and out with no problems....