Recent content by ksalguy

hay bales work great out doors too, put some in the middle of your out side pens, leave gaps between them and put something on top, they will hide between and dig their burrows under them, and if you give them several bales worth of space most all the tunnels will stay focused under them...

she should figure it all out soon enough, new does often have beginners misfortune, i am thinking though with indoor colonys where the does dont actually dig their own tunnels they may do better with more tunnels than there are rabbits just in case, or run a layer of solid hay bales side by...

yep more nest tunnels please lol, or you could put some solid hay bales in there side by side nice and tight and they could dig into that, am glad to hear your colony is doing well Maggie, you will have kits everywhere before too long, Mine always took a bit of a noticable break in the late...

things have been crazy here but i figured i should stop by and see whats going on lol,

how big are you planning to make the whole encloseure? i wouldnt do two bucks, i have had two bucks in my colony before and the dominant buck tears the other one up pretty bad, as to dig outs i have had a few here and there and i found simply lineing the inside of the fence with brick and...

there might be some fighting sence the does are adult, i would put in more than the three nest tunnels so they have more options while setting up their social status an all that, i would also try and have a deep litter setting so if they want to dig around in stuff to work off energy they can...

adult does are territorial and will generally try and run off other animals she is not used to that are adult or getting close to being adult, she will accept her own daughters though, you can leave the does all togather in the colony like you have it and just put the individual does in with...

my colony is in the chicken pen, has been for the last 3 years or so? they dug their warren under the coop and it works wonderfully for me, the coop is 8x8 set up on cinder blocks at the top of a slope under several big trees, the rabbits use a cinder block laid on its side in front to get...