How to House Rabbits

Providing proper housing will keep your rabbits healthy and happy, and make maintenance easy for you. To determine the size of hutch needed, figure 1 square foot for every pound of rabbit.

Things You'll Need

  • Heavy Feeding Dishes
  • Rabbit Bottle Waterers
  • Rabbit Cages
  • Rabbit Feeders
  • Rabbit Feeds
  • Rabbit Nest Boxes
  • Rabbit Salt Spools
  • 1/2-by-1-inch welded wire
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Instructions

    • 1

      Provide a dry, well-ventilated and easy-access hutch.

    • 2

      Provide each buck with his own hutch.

    • 3

      Provide one hutch for every three or four does if the hutch is of sufficient size.

    • 4

      Build movable hutches, which are easy to keep clean and can be transported around the yard to fertilize your flowerbeds or garden.

    • 5

      Use 1/2-by-1-inch welded wire on the bottom of the hutch to keep hutch free of waste.

    • 6

      Provide nest boxes for does and their litters.

    • 7

      Provide feed and water containers.

    • 8

      Build or hang hutches up off the ground.

    • 9

      Make hutches secure enough to keep predators such as cats and dogs away from your rabbits.