DutchBunny03
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Feel free to leave a comment about your rabbit housing, or suggest any housing arrangements I may have missed!
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Rabbit Housing Poll
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micah wotring
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Me and my brother both have rabbits in all-wire cages but I'm going to have mine in a colony set-up soon. Hopefully real soon!
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DutchBunny03
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Nice!! What breed are they?
Baymule
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When I had rabbits, they were housed in all wire hanging cages.
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DutchBunny03
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Cool. That is probably the best form of rabbit housing. I was planning on all-wire hutches for mine, but couldn't find the right type of wire. They now live in wire hutches with wooden frames. Do all-wire hutches really work as well as they are said to?
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Oh yes they do, they are the easiest to keep clean, no scraping poop piles out of the wood supported corners. I used a small propane torch to sanitize and burn the fur off when I cleaned the cages. Can't do that to a wood hutch! LOL Rabbits can get sore hocks from the uneven nubs of hardware cloth, 1"x1/2" is the best for bottom wire. Run it up the sides about 4" to keep the newborn kits from wriggling out, then clip on 1"x2" wire for sides and top. I used open top nest boxes with wire bottoms so urine ammonia didn't build up and give the kits pneumonia. If it was cold, I put those aluminum clamp type automotive lights over the nest box to keep the kits warm.
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Mine are in a wood/wire setup. Seems to work really well for us!
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DutchBunny03
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My hutches are wire all except for a wood frame to support it. They have the good caging wire on the bottom, and hardware cloth on the sides abd top. They work pretty well, but the manure does pile up. It's a pain in the neck. But making them that way was a lot cheaper than buying j-clips, j-clip plairs, and more expensive wire.
X2 x X2 the BEST and only way to go for desease control as well as the most efficient for production and labor savings.
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Oh, I'm not really sure. They look like NZWs but in all kinds of other colors. Back when we started there was one doe that looked like a lop of some kind so they have a little of that in 'm. When I have my colony pen going good I hope to purchase a trio of rex or mini rex. That'd be cool.
