From what I am reading that's how they litter box train a rabbit because he poops where he eats.
That's smart, thanks, our wire should work. I'm still tossing around breeds and I don't know what I will find at the swap meets. I'm looking at smaller breeds, no big ones, too heavy.
Yes, that's the point of it, and it's fine if you can empty the tray regularly. For one bunny, it would work better than it would for my bunny couples, particularly my couple that includes the giant. She produces a LOT of poo and her poo is big. To keep on top of that with her feed in a litter tray would be quite difficult, you'd need to empty it several times a day. I have my hay "baskets" next to the toilets. They can pull out fresh hay and it's not pooed on. Using a basket above the toilets is the same idea, but it doesn't have the disadvantage of the poo going on the hay.
I think the part timber/part wire works quite well. The downside on the shop hutch is that the tray is too shallow when loads of hay is going down there. I'd like a wire "dinner area" where the scraps and and overshoots of poo or wee goes through into a deeper tray, and then the rest timber so they can sit and walk comfortably and sprawl out comfortably. Only other thing I'd say is to make them open up to the outside without and lips or corners or anything. So much easier to sweep out when it opens up. With the hutch the guinea pigs are in now, the floor comes out, but hay gets caught in the wire sides and in between the wire and the flymesh.
