So we've finally got the 'big' shed built, and I've been given a section that's roughly 7.5ft front to back, and a little more in width. Whilst the other half of the shed has been having the shelving built for use as storage, my rabbits have been living a little like this:
Please excuse the mess - it's literally been a building site in there! We've got Jet and Jinx (bonded sisters) loose in the floor pen, my older buck Fiver in the hutch, and in recent months he's been joined by a blue buck (Arkas), and an indoor cage on top of their hutch with a chinchilla broken doe (Ash).
Over here wire hutches are just not the 'done' thing - having been stalking on here a fair while and doing research, I do understand the benefits! But having a normal solid floor is space-saving and I don't mind cleaning poo-corners every day, so these are solid floored
Just trialing one of the hutches and working out any flaws, so for now just one (of what will be four) blocks is being made. I'll be making the blocks in pairs so that they can be connected, with a removable divider board - so my bonded girls can have a double hutch which can be split up later if need be, same for larger litters. Above is most of the wood cut for the fist block frame, funds at the time meant it was easiest for me to buy 2 packs of wood without the two extra boards I need to finish off. I instead spent all my money on the polystyrene insulation boards!
And here we are up to date as of today - the basic frame is all together, just lacking one more rectangular frame to sit on the bottom so that I can enclose that bottom hutch. I've also put in one floor so that I could test build a divider, and painted with a safe wood preservative.
Tomorrow the wood for finishing this block, and to build the second block, will arrive. Not sure on the time it will be coming, but I'm eager to get on with it! The back will be boarded to insulate it a little. The left side has a kick board to stop bedding getting thrown around and will be mesh, I'm hoping this will give a bit of a balance between insulation and air flow.
Please excuse the mess - it's literally been a building site in there! We've got Jet and Jinx (bonded sisters) loose in the floor pen, my older buck Fiver in the hutch, and in recent months he's been joined by a blue buck (Arkas), and an indoor cage on top of their hutch with a chinchilla broken doe (Ash).
Over here wire hutches are just not the 'done' thing - having been stalking on here a fair while and doing research, I do understand the benefits! But having a normal solid floor is space-saving and I don't mind cleaning poo-corners every day, so these are solid floored
Just trialing one of the hutches and working out any flaws, so for now just one (of what will be four) blocks is being made. I'll be making the blocks in pairs so that they can be connected, with a removable divider board - so my bonded girls can have a double hutch which can be split up later if need be, same for larger litters. Above is most of the wood cut for the fist block frame, funds at the time meant it was easiest for me to buy 2 packs of wood without the two extra boards I need to finish off. I instead spent all my money on the polystyrene insulation boards!
And here we are up to date as of today - the basic frame is all together, just lacking one more rectangular frame to sit on the bottom so that I can enclose that bottom hutch. I've also put in one floor so that I could test build a divider, and painted with a safe wood preservative.
Tomorrow the wood for finishing this block, and to build the second block, will arrive. Not sure on the time it will be coming, but I'm eager to get on with it! The back will be boarded to insulate it a little. The left side has a kick board to stop bedding getting thrown around and will be mesh, I'm hoping this will give a bit of a balance between insulation and air flow.