Usually, I'll take out a wall between the hutch spaces and enlarge the nest area into a grow out area if the doe had a large litter. Usually around six to eight weeks or so. Then sell a few kits or separate out the males or put the kits over somewhere else and down size the growing space back to a nesting space again when the doe is rebred.
Each big hutch has two levels that are 10' long and almost 3' deep. Each long space can be separated into three smaller spaces or one small and one medium space, so between the two big hutches there can be as few as four big spaces or as many as twelve small spaces.
At the moment, one hutch is two large communal spaces where all the growing kits and non-breeding does hang out. The young bucks in there are now 16 weeks so will need to go somewhere else really soon. One or maybe two will be kept, but that still leaves two extra. They'll go over into the buck hutch but still share a space, at least the two spares. The two new herd bucks will get their own more or less permanent space.
There's also several smaller two hole hutches for the bucks so when there's more than four bucks, they have to take up one of the smaller spaces in the big hutches. I need another big hutch.
