My wonderful-awesome-super-fantabulous husband spent his entire Thanksgiving holiday and all day this past Saturday building me a new hutch for our Angora Bunnies, complete with nest boxes both for Kindling (babies!) and to get them out of the cold! (It was 17 degrees the night we finished construction).
The cages themselves are store bought units from Rural King (I don’t remember the brand) – they are 36″x30″x18″ – $33 a piece. The plywood nest boxes are 11 1/2″ x 30″ (roughly) and are integral to the wood structure. Right now the end pieces are nailed in but before the spring that will be changed and they’ll be hinged for access and cleaning – we lost the light and it was COLD so they got nailed on.
That rabbits seem to like them – although now they are covered in straw and need to be groomed horribly. Also the straw is going to be a trial on the PVC sewage system we put in. There’s a cat litter syle container that goes beneath the downspout to transfer waste to the compost bin (the tray has holes for drainage).
But I’m happy with it - and more importantly, so are the Buns!
Hubby workin’ HARD!
The Hutch 95% done!
Moto enjoying the new digs.
This is baby Domino (one of the Survivors!) all grown up and using her box!
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Rabbit Hutch Update & An Escape!- The Paper Fox Craft Studio & Gallery says:
January 22, 2010 at 5:26 pm (UTC -6 )
[...] Husband has stated that there is room for improvement on the Rabbit Hutch design – which we knew going in, but hey. The sewage system was indeed hit rather hard by [...]