My husband, and I often hang out in our garage, which is also where we keep our rabbits. We were sitting there staring at the hutches thinking of how we could expand for a decent price, and also waste management. Right now they have an open bottom cage so all the waste falls to the floor, usually I sweep up the berries, put them in a bag to use on the garden, and mop the urine. As of late it has become more, and more of a nightmare on clean up day. Last week I even tried to bribe my husband to do it for me. :lol:
After a few drinks, and tossing random ideas back, and forth we started talking about the husky we used to have. (She had to be rehomed after some very negative attitude changes she went through.) Then we thought hey she used to have a nice sized indoor kennel. So we started poking around the internet looking at kennels $40 would get a good sized kennel + a pan. After looking at different kennels something like this is what we're wanting.
Then along the bottom we would be adding a wire, or plastic flooring. Then at the very bottom would be the pan for clean up.
The next part of the idea is that we would stack the cages instead of what we currently have which is a long single level hutch that has 5 cage built into it.
Next year we're buying a big shed that will become the rabbit area, and will be adding a lot more cages. Which is why we're trying to make the switch from this wood hutch to many wire cages so we would have more room to expand. (There's about 5 other breeds of rabbit I really want so we NEED more room! Haha. )
Sooooo, I was hoping I could get some input from everyone on building, a good idea for the flooring part of the cages. We're looking for low-ish cost on the actual cage. Having to build, and DIY the bottom, or set up is not an issue for us. My husband, and I love to build.
Are we crazy, or could this end up being a good idea?!
Oops forgot to add that for does with kits we could be adding a tighter wire half way up all around the cage so the kits don't crawl out!
After a few drinks, and tossing random ideas back, and forth we started talking about the husky we used to have. (She had to be rehomed after some very negative attitude changes she went through.) Then we thought hey she used to have a nice sized indoor kennel. So we started poking around the internet looking at kennels $40 would get a good sized kennel + a pan. After looking at different kennels something like this is what we're wanting.
Then along the bottom we would be adding a wire, or plastic flooring. Then at the very bottom would be the pan for clean up.
The next part of the idea is that we would stack the cages instead of what we currently have which is a long single level hutch that has 5 cage built into it.
Next year we're buying a big shed that will become the rabbit area, and will be adding a lot more cages. Which is why we're trying to make the switch from this wood hutch to many wire cages so we would have more room to expand. (There's about 5 other breeds of rabbit I really want so we NEED more room! Haha. )
Sooooo, I was hoping I could get some input from everyone on building, a good idea for the flooring part of the cages. We're looking for low-ish cost on the actual cage. Having to build, and DIY the bottom, or set up is not an issue for us. My husband, and I love to build.
Are we crazy, or could this end up being a good idea?!
Oops forgot to add that for does with kits we could be adding a tighter wire half way up all around the cage so the kits don't crawl out!