Larsen Poultry Ranch
Herd Master
Do not use chicken wire. It is designed to keep chickens on one side or another, but is NOT predator proof, especially as it ages. Use hardware cloth/welded wire.
You say you are trying to plan out your litters, colony living makes that more difficult than cage living. You will need to keep the bucks separate, and bring the does individually to the bucks in order to have control over the breedings. Please note that the does may fight, especially if one comes back smelling like a buck, even if they got along before. The does will also attempt to hide their litters, and likely won't always use the hides you provide. You won't be able to inspect the litters until they are more mobile, and if they dig send, you will have a very difficult time catching them. If you are trying to track the lineage for pedigrees, it will be very difficult to tell proper parentage if litters are the same age. If you are planning to eat all the offspring then that won't matter.
I am not familiar with Holland lops, are they standard size or dwarf? If you are planning to add giant rabbits later, be aware you will want to be very careful with breeding different size rabbits together, the buck should always be smaller than the doe, or you could end up with stuck kits. If you kept a buck of each type and only bred like to like, there shouldn't be an issue.
You say you are trying to plan out your litters, colony living makes that more difficult than cage living. You will need to keep the bucks separate, and bring the does individually to the bucks in order to have control over the breedings. Please note that the does may fight, especially if one comes back smelling like a buck, even if they got along before. The does will also attempt to hide their litters, and likely won't always use the hides you provide. You won't be able to inspect the litters until they are more mobile, and if they dig send, you will have a very difficult time catching them. If you are trying to track the lineage for pedigrees, it will be very difficult to tell proper parentage if litters are the same age. If you are planning to eat all the offspring then that won't matter.
I am not familiar with Holland lops, are they standard size or dwarf? If you are planning to add giant rabbits later, be aware you will want to be very careful with breeding different size rabbits together, the buck should always be smaller than the doe, or you could end up with stuck kits. If you kept a buck of each type and only bred like to like, there shouldn't be an issue.