I keep meaning to post some photos but my set-up keeps growing and growing.
I have gone from one tunnel for my breeding does and now have another 2 "flop houses" one for bucks and one does who are being raised as a colony that can see each other but are separated by wire in the middle. Me and Mr NZ have been working on it all year. Sadly, freezer camp is around the corner for the inmates because I have another 17 to accommodate that are now at Week 4 and getting bigger every second.
The 100-day brigade will be thinning down very soon. Worryingly Mr NZ is very attached and not keen on me stocking the freezer. He has become a devoted bunny dad, I am not surprised, he is one of those folk that animals just seem to love.
The tunnels are totally wired all the way around and have a tarp roof and sides that can flap up or down depending on the weather. Bun shelters include planters with holes cut in and cat litter boxes I have found in charity shops stuffed with hay from my field. The hay feeder is a laundry basket. Flooring includes a stable mat, that is easy to clean, my old pig troughs for long pellet feeders and a tyre full of sand for digging around. I also have a few tubes for them to hide in. It has been quite the investment and my holidays for the next few years will be sitting in the flop house watching the buns.
Just as an aside - I thought 'Flop House' was a good name. As a little person I loved a story called The Flopsy Bunnies by Beatrix Potter - she wrote Peter Rabbit and gave a generation of children a love for rabbits that has recently been re-kindled. (Tee-hee) So while I am on the puns, a flop house is also a word for a doss house or place to kip, but in my field occupied by my own lovely flopsy bunnies.
Super happy I started this journey, I am having great fun. Long may it continue.