Show me your rabbit housing

[ChandlersChickens]

That's a cute set up! Where did you get the cage that is sitting on the floor?
I have a hutch that sits up high off the ground and want to get a cage like that so she can be inside the house when it is too hot or too cold on our sun porch.

 

[txchickie]

We found that cage at a garage sale, but they sell them at nearly all farm stores I've ever been to. TSC, Atwoods, etc....very very common. It's actually missing the stands that raise it up a few inches off the floor, but since it just stays open all day anyway I wouldn't want the stands.

I just bought one for our 2nd bunny we got, bought it at TSC for $79, and that includes the poo tray underneath. You do have to assemble it though.

 

[Toast n Jelly]

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Caution with the door opening that way as buns have been known to break a leg running up and down and yes I know that it hasn't happened yet but once would be enough

Your bun is very lucky to have such a nice setup!.

 

[ChandlersChickens]

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Thanks! I'll look there. I'd like one she can get into on her own like that. Poor thing has a fan on her because it's just too hot and sticky out today.

 

[hatchaholic]

We just finished building our hutch. Behind the hole is an area for their nests. We just started keeping white new zealands.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Mine is nothing fancy.

4 30 X 30 X 24 cages on a metal frame, with a worm bed below them. I only have 3 rabbits now, so the unused cage is just sitting on top

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

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Okay explain this to me... Do the worms eat the poo/pee?
I am planning to start breeding Angora's. I only have two rabbits right now, kept in common wood hutches with catch pans underneath. Emptying the catch pans in the PITA though, I put a very small amount of wood pellet bedding in them to absorb the urine and my French Angora boy is a BIG boy and pees alot so he always has his bedding puffed way up nearly to the bottom of the cage and when you pull out the pan, PLOP half of it is forced out the back onto the floor- of my front porch

I need a better set up if I am going to have several rabbits.

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Okay explain this to me... Do the worms eat the poo/pee?

Yes, and they turn it into compost

http://journeytoforever.org/compost_worm.html​

 

[pattyjean73]

I have got to do some research on the whole worm bed thing. That sounds like a great idea. Back when I used to raise rabbits for show I was interested in it and just never got around to learning how its done. I'll be getting rabbits again soon and I may very well go the worm bed route.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Here is what we have.

It's a 6x6 kennel with a metal roof and hardware cloth on the inside a couple feet tall to keep them in when they were little. In the winter I wrap it in tarp/plastic to keep the snow and wind out.

We started with 2 does and one got loose and was killed. We then introduced another doe and have had no problems with them being together (after the initail introductory stage).