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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hotzcatz" data-source="post: 345061" data-attributes="member: 303">[ATTACH=full]30884[/ATTACH]The three upper doors and the three lower doors are all the same size for each hutch so they're interchangable.  They match the removable floor plates so when a floor plate rots out, it can just be removed and either repaired or replaced instead of having to take the whole hutch apart.  There's no freeze here, so there's piped in water which saves tons of time over water bottles.[ATTACH=full]30885[/ATTACH]The doe hutch is two levels of one big run, although the floors are still made of multiple floor plates and the doors are still matching door sections.  It's the same as the buck hutch except it doesn't have the space dividers.The nesting hutch has special 'dropped nest' floor plates.[ATTACH=full]30886[/ATTACH]A wooden box sits over the dropped area to protect the nest. [ATTACH=full]30887[/ATTACH]There's slots near the bottom of the box so if a baby gets dragged out or falls out of the nest, it can easily get back in.  We've not lost any babies out on the wire since we adopted these dropped nesting areas.  It's also not a solid bottomed box, so when the babies are a few weeks old and the nest is usually getting dirty and damp, these stay dry since any liquids drain out.[ATTACH=full]30888[/ATTACH]Next time hutches are built (these big ones were built with the ability to be taken apart and moved, but I may build some new ones anyway), they will probably just be one layer high.  Most of the work in these hutches is cleaning the roof area between the two layers so one layer would be less work.  These are outdoor hutches so we just let the manure gather under the hutches  until we need it for the gardens.</blockquote>

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