crowsnest
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My son is almost done with school for the year. He has been here on the weekends and seen my colony for the rabbits that I converted from my old open air chicken coop. Mine does have a roof and is dry. We have an old above ground pool that is about 35 ft in diameter. Lots of space (about 950 feet) with the 5 ft walls still intact - can you see where I am going with this? My son wants to (and has already started) converting this area to a rabbit colony. The liner has been removed since it was damaged a few years ago and useless. There is about 2 feet of nice sand underneath and a retaining wall is another 2 feet of rock and gravel 2 feet out from that - not too worried about digging with that wall filled with gravel and large rock all the way around. He has also placed several dog carrier type nest boxes/burrows in the set up he partially buried them in the sand to make them nice and homey. They should stay pretty cool this summer. I am most concerned about shade and keeping the rain off of them - I know they will go into the burrows, but think they need a bit more. We have transplanted a few small shrubs also, and they seem to be doing fine, not drooping. I suggested to him that he make some kind of lean to to keep feed dry also, we are working on that. Is there anything I am forgetting? I am paranoid I guess because my colony is outside, yet still provides a roof and some protection from the weather.