Warning This Is Graphic. Rabbit Needs Help.

[Baymule]

Have you ever idled your car/truck/tractor on a cold morning? I have. Have you ever burned off the last tank of gas to empty the tank to winterize the mower? Rabbits and chickens are small. Myself, I would build a barn for animals and a barn for motor things. Also, rabbits are prey animals and as prey, they get frightened, they try to escape. BOING! BOING! That is your rabbits bouncing off the wire because they just woke up to the roar of an engine.

While it sounds like maximizing space and making use of every part of a barn, I would separate the animals.

Combine the wood, metal and automotive working with the motorized vehicles.

 

[Striker911]

Thanks for all the info everyone. Baymule, your awesome, and I will surly refer to your write up more than once. As far as the barn goes I will just delete the plan for a loft and make a larger garage. It will make it more costly, but in the end I will not end up with a bunch of over kill factoring a loft. With no loft and considering the other buildings I will end up with almost 5,000SF. That's not even including the house, or a garage. Mind boggling. I am so ready for spring so I can get to work. I also have plans to build onto the house since my son just moved in.

 

[Baymule]

You are might welcome @Striker911. What good does it do you to learn something if you don't teach it to someone else?

Something to think about, Lowes and other big box lumber supply type stores have a cull rack outside. On this cull rack will be reject lumber, chipped concrete blocks, busted open bundles of shingles, things like that. It is usually 1/2 price. for half price, I have learned to love slightly warped or crooked boards. Just use more/bigger nails! Make friends with somebody that works there and maybe they can call you when good stuff hits the rack. Or just drive by there a lot.

 

[Farmin' Girl]

Years ago when I was a kid I had a pet Florida White rabbit named Buttercup. I loved her to death, but she came up with a bad case of ear mites. At the time we didn't know how to care for her, so we gave her to a friend who butchered and ate her. Now I own 2 American Blue rabbits, and am planning to get more for breeding purposes.

Keep doing the olive oil, 'Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits' recommends that as second best to over the counter meds. Also, our friends ate the rabbit so I don't think it will hurt.