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[goats rule 101]

Hi everyone! I'm interested in building some sort of run for my bunnies. Do any of you have a run for them to play in the grass with or something similar. I would like a portable one so its not always in the same place if possible. I would only have one rabbit in there at a time and I would watch them while they're in it. If you have something like this could you please post a pic and tell me your ideas? Thanks so much!

 

[APDoxies]

The breeder I got one of my Mini Lops from breeds the dwarf Hotots. His name is Mike & he owns Bunnies N More in Missouri. He has several other breeds, including Lionheads. He shows them & sells several. They are THE cutest little bunnies!

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Hi everyone! I'm interested in building some sort of run for my bunnies. Do any of you have a run for them to play in the grass with or something similar. I would like a portable one so its not always in the same place if possible. I would only have one rabbit in there at a time and I would watch them while they're in it. If you have something like this could you please post a pic and tell me your ideas? Thanks so much!

I have a fold up metal gate that I put across a section of the yard where I grow grasses through window screens. That prevents the chickens from uprooting the grasses. The bunnies made a tunnel through the grasses. In this foto the grasses are dead for the winter and I'll replant in spring.

This one taken last summer when the window screen grass was still green.

 

[misschickenlittle]

The breeder I got one of my Mini Lops from breeds the dwarf Hotots.  His name is Mike & he owns Bunnies N More in Missouri.  He has several other breeds, including Lionheads.  He shows them & sells several.  They are THE cutest little bunnies!

I will have to check him out! I live in MO.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Dwarf Hotots are on the Rare Breed Rabbits list from the American Livestock Conservancy. However, that only goes based on registration and attendance numbers at shows. However those numbers are a fair representation of a population in regards to other populations. :3

This is my rabbit tractor/play pen!



4'X4', OSB and 2X4 scrap wood screwed together. Chicken wire walls and top stapled on. It's heavy enough that a 12lb rabbit can't move it or dig out easy. I can lift it, but it's a little floppy so it's easier to drag. Two people can move it long distances easily, I can move it 20-30 feet on my own without much effort across lumpy ground. Chicken wire is hard enough to chew out of but small enough that baby bunnies can't crawl out while being cost efficient.

 

[goats rule 101]

Thank you both for the replies! Do either of you have any problems or complaints at all with them? Chocolatemouse, your set up is like my ideas exactly. With the top across it do you have to watch your rabbits while they're in there or can you just put them in and check on them every now and then? Thank you both again!

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Thank you both for the replies! Do either of you have any problems or complaints at all with them? Chocolatemouse, your set up is like my ideas exactly. With the top across it do you have to watch your rabbits while they're in there or can you just put them in and check on them every now and then? Thank you both again!

I keep an eye on mine. Does will dig. I often sit in the area with them for them to climb on me. But I also work in the adjacent chicken yard, even all day if I'm building, and just check on them. I only put my two neutered bucks in there and they don't dig. They have room to jump and run, and hide which they like.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Mine is heavy and hard to dig out of. If you check back every half hour you are usually good. My complaints are that I should have used 4 screws in each corner to make it less floppy and the door (which is on top) needed to be more than just cutting out a flap and putting a hook on it. Today I would do it over again but with 4 screws per corner (two each way, spaced out at the top and bottom, instead of one each way in the middle) and support wire to make a door frame and door, as well as a nice, tight support wire across each wall at the top because I stapled the chicken wire on a little loose.

 

[goats rule 101]

Okay thank you! Looks like I have another project for this summer . Thanks again for all the help!

 

[Lynzi777]

Sound myself a doe this weekend!


Here is a better picture of the buck I got on Friday, those other pics were from my phone and came out a little light/blurry