bigbrologan
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Hi people! How is everyone today? I am sooo excited for everything that is coming up with me. I just left my dads house to come to my moms and right before I left, I checked on my breeding doe, she's currently in a hutch. I am remodeling my colony settings but I'll get back to that later. Anyway, back to my doe, I went to check up on her before I left to stay with my mom this three day weekend. I open up the peephole on the hutch, it's about 1' by 3', the peephole is, the hutch is VERY big, anyway, I open the peephole and I see this rounded hay in the corner of the hutch, it wasn't very much and I was inferring that she was creating a nest so I gave her some more hay and she instantly starts packing it in her mouth till she's carry so much, I can barely see her face. I come back after another ten minutes and she has a pretty good nest built. I gave her some more hay because it's quite cold at the moment where I live and again she starts plucking it out. I come back after another ten minutes and I see a beautiful nest built. She hadn't put any fur in it yet but I'm assuming she'll do that right before she has her babies. I am so excited, I can't wait.
Now, back to my new colony setting, I have one 10' by 20' pen outside on the side of my barn with 18" plywood on the side so that the smaller rabbits can't get out. The pen was flooding immensely so I took the rabbits out and am in the process of letting it dry out. The other pen that I just recently built is in my barn, and please keep in mind that I am 12 years old and I do all of this myself. Anyway, I built a 8 1/2' by 6' pen in a corner of my barn, I have 4' tall plywood as the pen, I laid down wire and put plywood over that so I my rabbits couldn't dig out, I then laid dirt over the plywood over the plywood and wire so that the rabbits didn't have to step on wire and wood constantly, I cut a door out of the plywood that is the pen and put some hinges on it. I made it so I could get in it without climbing over the plywood. The dirt was a bit wet. so I am waiting for it to dry out and I need to put some netting or wire over the pen so my cats can't get into the pen.
Please provide what you think.
Thanks,
Logan
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Now, back to my new colony setting, I have one 10' by 20' pen outside on the side of my barn with 18" plywood on the side so that the smaller rabbits can't get out. The pen was flooding immensely so I took the rabbits out and am in the process of letting it dry out. The other pen that I just recently built is in my barn, and please keep in mind that I am 12 years old and I do all of this myself. Anyway, I built a 8 1/2' by 6' pen in a corner of my barn, I have 4' tall plywood as the pen, I laid down wire and put plywood over that so I my rabbits couldn't dig out, I then laid dirt over the plywood over the plywood and wire so that the rabbits didn't have to step on wire and wood constantly, I cut a door out of the plywood that is the pen and put some hinges on it. I made it so I could get in it without climbing over the plywood. The dirt was a bit wet. so I am waiting for it to dry out and I need to put some netting or wire over the pen so my cats can't get into the pen.
Please provide what you think.
Thanks,
Logan
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