Meat Rabbits

http://www.oodmag.com/community/atta...3&d=1424313617

thats what i threw together back in december... need to change a few things on it when it gets warmer, but has worked pretty good... 4 pens, 24X36" each, all wire floor so pee and poo falls through, feed and water is all on the outside, which is good as they tend to dump anything in their cages... it cost me just shy of $100 to build... wire being the most expensive part... most growers use all wire cages, either suspended above the ground, or with trays underneith that they can remove to clean out...

like i say i need to change a few things on the next one... as u can see the pee runs down and stained the bottom doors, also into the lower bunnies feeders... they also always poo at the back and it gets stuck in the tight spot from the angle, so ultimatly i think i will make it flat and put a clean out tray on it... 24'X36" is a good sized cage for a bunnie, but how my doors are situated it makes it hard to grab them when they are in the back corner, and guess where they decide to go when i try to grab them lol also rabbits chew wood... dirty buggars lol

what im gonna run into soon is space... like fox said, it dosent take a couple rabbits long to become 30 rabbits, and they like to eat lol

nice looing bunnys but I have never seen them staked with one cage on top of another like that .not sure that's a good idea ,,My uncle raised hundreds of them and had all the cages at shoulder height hanging from the ceiling ,with wire bottoms ,,easy to clean ,,easy to access ,but if it works for you ,,D

well thats why i have a board on a angle so pee and poo runs down out of the way, dosent fall onto the bunnies below... designed it like that to utilize limited indoor space...

heres the setup at the rabbity i got my champ'dagent from

https://www.facebook.com/hotbunsrabb...type=1&theater

i need to sell a few bunnies before i can get a setup like that haha

Thanks Steve , good looking set up. My boy would love to raise some but unfortunately the wife is dead set against it as she always had pet rabbits growing up as a kid and to her rabbits are friend not food.

I will grab some pictures tomorrow, we moved them outside today, the confined garage was giving my asthma issues, outside I am fine but in a confined space I guess I am allergic to them.

We have individual hutches with runs attached, 5'x2' in total for each rabbit.

Here is a hutch/run setup outside for one of the rabbits, I built hay feeders today but they have J feeders on the back of the hutch as well. We will be going with water bottles and crocks at the moment as it is still getting too cold at night for just water bottles.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i4...y%20Feeder.jpg

Here is the setup for the 4 rabbits that we have so far. They are beside the house for ease for us, they will be moved back onto the back acre after things warm up and dry up a bit.

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i4...ow%20melts.jpg

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Originally Posted by scarkner

Careful when pruning that many trees to not pass any disease between them. I learned that one the hard way on my poor decimated pear trees.

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Very good point and keep in mind to clean pruners with rubbing alcohol before pruning the next tree to prevent disease transfer.

I like your rabbit condo's. I always wanted to raise meat rabbits but my father in law had a butcher shop and I could get rabbit any time I had a hankering for it. The landscape in your backyard looks familiar . Is it the Oxford Mills area or Bishops Mills ?

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Originally Posted by yellow dog

I like your rabbit condo's. I always wanted to raise meat rabbits but my father in law had a butcher shop and I could get rabbit any time I had a hankering for it. The landscape in your backyard looks familiar . Is it the Oxford Mills area or Bishops Mills ?

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Oxford Mills