Rabbit pen thred

[Shayanna]

Can I be like you when I grow up?

This isn't really a rabbit pen so much as it's a rabbit tractor:
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/7104_rabbittractor_s.jpg
It's 5'x10' and the bottom is 2"x4" welded wire. The sides are 2' chicken wire. We put the rabbits in at 3-4 weeks of age. It gets moved 2-3 times a day. You have to be careful to not put it over holes when the rabbits are still really small.

 

[rittert3]

I see this is an older post and I havn't been on BYH in a while but I though I'd share what I've built over the last month or two. I've got 20 holes built like this then a few extras,... raising show mini lops in NE KS.

 

[bjjohns]

Pretty cool. How hard is it to clean up between the first and second stories?

 

[rittert3]

it was going to be made to roll out the back but my panels wern't wide enough so I just scoop it out with a dust pan once a week or so.

 

[sonnythebunny]

I keep my bunny (holland lop) in a hutch

 

[greenbean]

I've had does live in a colony setting together just fine, however I've also had others not get along at all. This includes littermates. I had one missing a lip and part of an ear before I could break up the fight. I just keep them in hutches/hanging cages now (one rabbit per cage). They do regularly get time out in the yard in a pen so they're not in a cage all the time. I've seen some really nice colony setups before that worked well. So if it works out for you, that's awesome! Good luck!

 

[bjjohns]

I use a colony it's much eaiser for me.

I considered that, but how do you catch them? I assume with a colony you are butchering.

 

[bjjohns]

Still a net (long handled, small holed, fishing net from walmart) makes them pretty easy to corner and catch. .... things deleted ....Sometimes I don't even bother with the net and just reach in and grab them, that is, as long as I have on long sleeves to aviod the scratching.

I didn't think about the fishing net. I use one of the big ones to catch some of my more feral goats sometimes. Great Minds . If I have a cage rabbit get loose, my Jack Russel (George) will help me catch it, but getting it back alive can be an iffy thing.

We have a Flemish Giant buck (Named Bart, yes he is black). I refuse to mess with him. He loves my wife, shreds me if I even stick my hand in his cage. Been threatening to get welders gloves to deal with him.

 

[pandorasun6]

These threads all make me feel so much better about my rabbit-land experiment. I've been building multi room bunny condo's, 2 levels and multiple rooms that can be opened or closed off so I can use them for growing litters and close off when I separate boys from girls (these are pet variety).. I also use a solid level on top for nesting does. Clean the top level is a pain but I have lofts in them so I can actually hose them out without removing the rabbit if she sits up on her loft. I have them in sight of each other but no adults housed together. We already had one female on female biting incident * 3 inches deep and down to the muscle of her back* that left my blue doe with curious white fur marking from her scar. She healed up nicely with betadine and antibiotic cream and is still a friendly. The doe that bit her is also hard to breed because she attacks the bucks, pins and pulls fur. I really thought she was a buck for a little while! I kept checking her to be sure. The only problem I see now is one lonely buck that seems so distracted by the does he can't reach, he will barely eat some days.

 

[bjjohns]

These threads all make me feel so much better about my rabbit-land experiment. I've been building multi room bunny condo's,

I think I understand what you are doing, but you have any pics you could post?