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[floridasummer]

My rabbit house
Like it? Hate it?

Think it's good once I put hay and bedding down?

That's pretty epic!

 

[AxolotlLove]

That's pretty epic!

Thank you! I just put bedding and hay down. It's pretty tall (I'm 5ft and I can stand in it) so the heatlamp won't burn the buns. Now I just need a water bottle or 2 and the bunnies!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

That is probably the nicest rabbit house I have ever seen. Though I have to try to suggest you NOT USE a heat lamp! Instead just use a safe, heated waterer (like the chicken waterers) and leave the rest of the house cold. Your rabbit is at NO risk of dying from the cold unless you have some of the smallest breeds (under 4lbs) like a Polish. Seriously. Rabbits are bred by both humans and nature to survive cold air perfectly. The heat lamp WILL create excess humidity inside of the house that could be damaging to their lungs, and the chances of an accident burning down your rabbit house with the rabbit inside far outweigh the chances of your rabbit dying from the cold. In fact, summers will be your biggest risk as countless rabbits die from heat stroke each year, but almost none die from freezing unless there were severe circumstances (such as no food, mange, wet bedding, etc).

Rest assured, rabbits are extremely cold hardy. As long as they are out of the wind and have bedding they will handle even the coldest of winters beautifully. They will NOT thank you for the heat lamp, save for possibly with a respiratory infection.

Remember that rabbits wear rabbit fur coats 24/7. Imagine putting on a rabbit fur coat, fur lined boots, a fur scarf and a fur hat, and stepping outside and walking around. If you would be comfortable in those clothes outside, it's perfect weather for your rabbits.

 

[BoomChickaPop]

Hi I have 3 bunnies all mini lops
I want to make them a bunny run so they can get some exercise. What is the best wire to use? I was thinking hardware cloth to keep out snakes when they have babies
Soon I will be getting into Netherland dwarfs, double mane lionhead dwarfs, holland lops. And keep breeding my mini lops. If anyone on this thread has any of these breeds please tell me about them and their personality Thanks.
Here are some pics of my bunnies
This is Smokey my male mini lop bunny

A male mini lop baby bunny went to his new home already

When my baby bunnies were 4 weeks old


This is the Mom named Star
She will have babies from Smokey on the 16th or 17th I will post pics


BCP

 

[AxolotlLove]

That is probably the nicest rabbit house I have ever seen. Though I have to try to suggest you NOT USE a heat lamp! Instead just use a safe, heated waterer (like the chicken waterers) and leave the rest of the house cold. Your rabbit is at NO risk of dying from the cold unless you have some of the smallest breeds (under 4lbs) like a Polish. Seriously. Rabbits are bred by both humans and nature to survive cold air perfectly. The heat lamp WILL create excess humidity inside of the house that could be damaging to their lungs, and the chances of an accident burning down your rabbit house with the rabbit inside far outweigh the chances of your rabbit dying from the cold. In fact, summers will be your biggest risk as countless rabbits die from heat stroke each year, but almost none die from freezing unless there were severe circumstances (such as no food, mange, wet bedding, etc).

Rest assured, rabbits are extremely cold hardy. As long as they are out of the wind and have bedding they will handle even the coldest of winters beautifully. They will NOT thank you for the heat lamp, save for possibly with a respiratory infection.

Remember that rabbits wear rabbit fur coats 24/7. Imagine putting on a rabbit fur coat, fur lined boots, a fur scarf and a fur hat, and stepping outside and walking around. If you would be comfortable in those clothes outside, it's perfect weather for your rabbits.

Thank you! I wouldn't want to get the poor things. Thank you, really, Im really glad you told me. In the winter everything is shut, windows, the door has a add on. I probably would've fried em!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Idk where you are but if you are south of me (northeast Ohio) you will likely have to manage heat in the summers and winters shouldn't be a problem until you are sub-arctic. A large, flat granite stone in the shade can feel cool on a summer day. Thick frozen water bottles or flat granite rocks can be placed in the freezer to gain cold and placed in a rabbit pen for them to lay against. (Expect them to chew open the bottles occasionally.) A damp cloth can be wiped over their ears and nose in extreme heat. An additional layer of shade (such as a tree or a shade cloth or tarp) at least 1' from the roof of the house will dramatically drop the temperature in your hutch up to 8*F.

In the winter, you want a draft-free space, and a smaller space that is insulated, like a large cardboard box stuffed with straw, just in case. My rabbits are meat rabbits, I will grant, but I have an outdoor hutch (with 2.5 walls on each 4'x4' cage, so one wall and half of the neighboring wall are wire) and a tarp that wraps around the front. The rest of hutch is made of wood. I bed my cages thick with hay in the winter, especially if it's very cold. My rabbits have handled -45*F windchills like a champ and raised litters in sub-zero temperatures. The hardest part of winter rabbit care is keeping the water thawed. If you have electricity in your hutch, putting out a heated waterer should not be difficult. (Just keep the cord safely covered and out of nibbling rabbit teeth.)

A heat lamp will not over heat your rabbits in the winter, you wouldn't have over-heated your rabbit in the winter, but it's not needed and the risks of heat lamp fires are scary. They also tend to create water vapor in animal pens in the winter, which damp=bad juju.

I think we tend to over-humanize animals. Animals do not need sugary treats and snuggles and warm environments to be happy. They need the environments they are best suited to survive in; for rabbits, hay-based diets, clean water, cool, draft-free spaces with comfy bedding. Rabbits need seasons as much as trees and chickens do. They're built for it. Pampering them is nice but they will like that cardboard TP tube stuffed with carrot peels, dandelion flowers and hay just as much as the $5 treat boxes from the store and one's free. Animals are simple beings

 

[AxolotlLove]

Thank you for your information. It' gets very hot here in summer (85-100 F) and cold in winter (20-10 F) so I want to do what's best for them.

 

[BunnynChicks]

Here is my Rex rabbit Bart. His fur is the softest I have ever felt.

 

[AxolotlLove]

Awwwwwww so sweet! Rex have fur like clouds right!? My rex (Delilah) is a baby and she is SOOOO SOFT!!! My Holland has soft fur too but texture is different. My American Tan just has shiny silky fur.

 

[BunnynChicks]

Yea, I just love petting him although when he is shedding it is a nightmare with hair flying everywhere. Cool! I have always loved tan rabbits they are so pretty.