Well, I wanted to build a new rabbit barn this year, but now, I think I have a better idea.
I have a 20 by 22 foot garage, that will never have a car in it. It holds my tools, mowers, chainsaws, log splitter, and anything else that needs to be put "somewhere" at any given time.
My current bunny barn is a small lean-to type shed I built onto the back of the garage.
What I am thinking now is, build a wall about 10 foot from the back wall and basicly, cut the garage in half.
The wall will form a 10 foot by 20 foot room. Use that room as a rabbit barn. There is a window that sits in the wall of the garage and goes into the rabbit shed, so I can take it out and put a door there.
I can keep most of my meat rabbits in the shed area, then put all of the mini lops in the new room.
The added use for this room will be chickens. I am starting a new project of incubating and hatching out baby chicks of 4 different breeds. In a 10x20 foot room with about 10-12 rabbits, and a couple chick brooding boxes with heat lamps, it should stay well above freezing in there, so no more frozen water bottles. If needed, I could add a small electric heater, but I really don't think it would be needed.
Yeah, I would still have to worry about frozen bottles in the lean-to area, but changing out 5 or 6 bottles three times a day is better than changing out 20.
I have a 20 by 22 foot garage, that will never have a car in it. It holds my tools, mowers, chainsaws, log splitter, and anything else that needs to be put "somewhere" at any given time.
My current bunny barn is a small lean-to type shed I built onto the back of the garage.
What I am thinking now is, build a wall about 10 foot from the back wall and basicly, cut the garage in half.
The wall will form a 10 foot by 20 foot room. Use that room as a rabbit barn. There is a window that sits in the wall of the garage and goes into the rabbit shed, so I can take it out and put a door there.
I can keep most of my meat rabbits in the shed area, then put all of the mini lops in the new room.
The added use for this room will be chickens. I am starting a new project of incubating and hatching out baby chicks of 4 different breeds. In a 10x20 foot room with about 10-12 rabbits, and a couple chick brooding boxes with heat lamps, it should stay well above freezing in there, so no more frozen water bottles. If needed, I could add a small electric heater, but I really don't think it would be needed.
Yeah, I would still have to worry about frozen bottles in the lean-to area, but changing out 5 or 6 bottles three times a day is better than changing out 20.
