Stormcrow's Hobby Farm

[JacinLarkwell]

How much room (square feet) does a rabbit need?

Depends on who you ask. Half the people here would probably call Peta on me because they have pets and mine were raised for meat.

 

[Sally PB]

Ok, let me rephrase my question. Can you give me a range of sizes of a hutch for rabbits? For pet or meat or fiber. I've never had rabbits, so I'd just like information to store away.

 

[NatJ]

Ok, let me rephrase my question. Can you give me a range of sizes of a hutch for rabbits? For pet or meat or fiber. I've never had rabbits, so I'd just like information to store away.

Meat-type doe (about 8-12 pounds mature weight), raising a litter, a common cage size is 30" by 36" and 18" high.

Bucks commonly get a cage slightly smaller, because they aren't sharing with a litter of bunnies.

More space is fine, but if you make the cage too big it is hard to reach rabbits in the back corners (same problem that happens with chicken pens that are too small to walk into but too big to reach into.)

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I built mine 30" wide, 3' long (small breed), 4' long (big breed), or 5' long (breeder/kitting cage) and 30" tall.

and 1/2" x 1" bottoms, 1x1" sides (have to put something around the perimiter in the breeder cage, or the kits can get their heads caught).

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Ok, let me rephrase my question. Can you give me a range of sizes of a hutch for rabbits? For pet or meat or fiber. I've never had rabbits, so I'd just like information to store away.

Our mini lops and harlequins had 24x24 and our NZs and Satin has 30x30. The kits would live with mama until weaning amd then go into adult sized cages with their litter mate, and then seperated by sex asap.

My pet boys ( a mini lop amd harlequin) each had a 24x30 though once we got out of breeding

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Baby brown bunny says welcome to Monday.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Baby brown bunny says welcome to Monday.

View attachment 3671447

Gosh I want some again so badly

 

[Sally PB]

Baby brown bunny says welcome to Monday.

The look in his/her eye says it all.

 

[Sally PB]

Baby brown bunny says welcome to Monday.

And what does Baby Brown Bunny say about Friday?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

All these birds need a date with the freeezer. Still too many other things to do...