Rabbit Colony Pens Roof

Building rabbit dorm cages can help increase breeding happiness and healthiness in your rabbits.

Rabbit colony pens roof.

This is part 2 of my outdoor rabbit pen that will end up having a roof on it. Safety of all our animals is paramount from the tiniest kit on up and through trial and error i found that the easiest way to avoid bloody ears and missed pregnancies was by strictly. 7 rabbits 6 girls one boy. All enclosed with chicken wire.

Rabbits are very territorial so it s important to have several food bowls hay racks and water bottles. Rabbits require a living area 3 4 times their size and in a rabbit colony this space requirement is easier achieved. See more ideas about rabbit hutches rabbit roof garden. Mother earth news staff rabbits have always been a welcome part of our homestead.

Check out this comp. We tried giving multiple hiding spots and layering branches over a large section of the colony for the rabbits to climb in but the cats outsmarted us at every turn. They are having lots of fun. Our latest colony is under the roof of a pole building so hawks weren t an issue but we have several barn cats who really enjoyed the rabbit pen.

Nov 29 2016 explore shirley k s board rabbit hutch roof garden on pinterest. Half the pen has tin roof. For our specific setup that thought ended up being so wrong. Chicken wire on floor with some dirt on top.

Felix is a giant flemish so he ll need room to run and exercise and with the roof on it he won t have to worry about. We thought this was the most humane way of raising rabbits because it s the closest way to how a wild rabbit would live. Food and water in the rabbit colony. Your bunnies are free to move about a bigger space and can interact with other rabbits as they might in the wild.