Rabbit's DON'T belong in cages!!!

[PrimroseMom1]

The same thing you do for chickens?

My chickens range during the day and are locked up at night.

 

[chicken farmer]

A helpful thing to is a chicken tractor or a tractor,it's a small movable pen that is good for meat chickens or any animal and like I said it's a movable smaller pen that you can move everyday or anytime you want to a new piece of grass so the animal in there can get fresh grass and bugs. I have one for my meat chickens and have one of my bucks in it right now cause I don't get my meat chickens until next week. Here's my tractor we built I have painted it red since this picture. You can add wheels and handles to it for easier moving.

 

[OzarkCountryGirl]

Here's my tractor we built I have painted it red since this picture. You can add wheels and handles to it for easier moving.

That looks very similar to the ones I had back when I was raising rabbits. I used to raise and show rabbits, and the hardest part of raising them in tractors was getting their feet cleaned of grass and dirt stains before a show. The judges were always impressed with the body type and muscle tone of my rabbits, but then when I said how they were raised, I was berated and told to NEVER, EVER allow a domestic rabbit on the ground, as they will pick up all sorts of diseases from the soil, and that I was putting everyone else at risk by possibly transmitting such diseases to the other rabbits at shows. From then on I just kept my mouth shut, and eventually just stopped showing, and then stopped breeding them, despite having a binder full of GC certificates and pedigrees with red/white/blue seals.

But back to raising rabbits in tractors...I kept the does in one and the bucks in another. Regarding fights over territory, if your tractors are big enough, they don't fight. I also put in a couple full bales of hay for them to eat on, dig under and hide behind. When it came to breeding, I would take the doe that was to be bred out of the doe tractor and the buck out of the buck tractor and put the two in a breeding pen for a few minutes, then returned each to it's respective tractor. There was never any problems with the does having their kits in with the other does. My tractors were about 8'x12'.

I've been out of rabbits for a few years, but I've missed them (and my garden really missed the wonderful fertilizer they produce), so recently I obtained a couple breeding pairs of New Zealand Blacks and Palominos...and hubby is building me a couple of new tractors.

 

[Americano Blue]

That looks very similar to the ones I had back when I was raising rabbits. I used to raise and show rabbits, and the hardest part of raising them in tractors was getting their feet cleaned of grass and dirt stains before a show. The judges were always impressed with the body type and muscle tone of my rabbits, but then when I said how they were raised, I was berated and told to NEVER, EVER allow a domestic rabbit on the ground, as they will pick up all sorts of diseases from the soil, and that I was putting everyone else at risk by possibly transmitting such diseases to the other rabbits at shows. From then on I just kept my mouth shut, and eventually just stopped showing, and then stopped breeding them, despite having a binder full of GC certificates and pedigrees with red/white/blue seals.

But back to raising rabbits in tractors...I kept the does in one and the bucks in another. Regarding fights over territory, if your tractors are big enough, they don't fight. I also put in a couple full bales of hay for them to eat on, dig under and hide behind. When it came to breeding, I would take the doe that was to be bred out of the doe tractor and the buck out of the buck tractor and put the two in a breeding pen for a few minutes, then returned each to it's respective tractor. There was never any problems with the does having their kits in with the other does. My tractors were about 8'x12'.

I've been out of rabbits for a few years, but I've missed them (and my garden really missed the wonderful fertilizer they produce), so recently I obtained a couple breeding pairs of New Zealand Blacks and Palominos...and hubby is building me a couple of new tractors.

Personally i don't think the judges knew what they were talking about. they are right about the diseases but only if the rabbits an adult and never been allowed on the ground in its entire life.

 

[SternRose]

I let my rabbits including show bunnies out to run in a little dog run once a week. Unless the grounds wet, or raining or it's snowy.

 

[SarahoftheChick]

Most of our rabbits are only in a cage for 10 or 12 weeks. After that, it's freezer camp. We do get the adults out and spend time with them.

 

[Americano Blue]

I let my rabbits including show bunnies out to run in a little dog run once a week. Unless the grounds wet, or raining or it's snowy.

mine rabbit lived outside. basically, i keep it more like they were wild. i provided food, shelter, and water but they get to do what ever they would in the wild. They are some of the healthiest bunnies i've ever seen

 

[SternRose]

mine rabbit lived outside. basically, i keep it more like they were wild. i provided food, shelter, and water but they get to do what ever they would in the wild. They are some of the healthiest bunnies i've ever seen

That's awesome

 

[Americano Blue]

That's awesome

thanks. i have a border collie who watches them and the chickens so i don't have to worry about hawks

 

[SternRose]

I'm jelly now. My dogs would eat them