You can install the cells in the barn, or in the garden or in the yard - it all depends on climatic conditions. Perhaps the combined keeping of animals - in the winter indoors, and in the summer - on the street. When placing cages indoors or in the yard, it is necessary to take into account the fact that rabbits cannot tolerate drafts, as well as increased and decreased humidity.
You decided to breed rabbits on the plot, but do not know where to get the cage? Ready-made cages can be bought at the store, but it is much more pleasant to make cages for rabbits with your own hands. Cells come in many different types, if you wish, you can even find ready-made drawings.
We need to think about how to make a cage for rabbits, so that it fits seamlessly into the design of the site. Maybe you even have to make a cage according to your drawings, the main thing is that it meets the regulatory standards for keeping rabbits, otherwise the productivity of the rabbits will decrease.
In fact, making rabbit cages is a fascinating and interesting thing. You can build them from various materials: wood, brick, adobe. Even store containers, plywood, metal cutting and other materials will do. Very convenient for keeping rabbits are cages located on goats at a height of up to one meter, or on wooden poles dug in the ground. Such cells are spacious, they are well visible and convenient to clean. Feeding animals is also very convenient, because they have everything you need: a feeder, a drinking bowl, a warm house. Before you make a cage for rabbits, you need to choose the right place for it. To build cages for rabbits with your own hands means to make cages that are ideally suited to each specific case.
It is best to place rabbit cages with your own hands on a plot with trees, as in the summer the trees will give shade and hide from the hot sun, and in winter they will protect from the wind.
Cells are single and double. One adult animal is laid at the norm of 0.5 square meters of area, on young animals - 0.12 square meters, and on young rabbits - 0.17.
The length of a double single-tier cage is from 220 to 240 centimeters, and the width is 65 centimeters. The height of the back wall is 35 centimeters, the front - 50 centimeters. The shed roof ends with a visor protruding 20 centimeters forward, and 10 centimeters from the sides. On the sides there are nesting compartments having a continuous floor, and in the aft compartment the floor is made of 16x48 or 18x18 centimeters mesh, or of two-centimeter wooden battens stuffed through one and a half centimeters. A manhole in the nesting compartment is made at a height of 15 centimeters from the floor so that the rabbits cannot get into the aft compartment.
Doors to the aft compartment are made of mesh, and to the nest - solid. Drinkers and removable feeders are hung on the mesh doors. Coarse feed is usually distributed in a manger made of two mesh-covered wooden frames. The upper ends of the frames are spread apart in the sides of the aft compartments, and the lower ones are combined.
Do-it-yourself rabbit cages built to keep young animals, are a wooden frame, upholstered in wood at the back and sides. The front mesh and floor are made of metal mesh. The size of the cells for young animals depends on the number of animals that will be there. Usually cells make 2-4 meters in length and one meter in width. The height of the front wall is 0.5 meters, the back - 0.4 meters. The front wall has two doors; hangers and feeders are hung on them, as well as a nursery for grass or hay. The roof is made of tesa, in front there should be a visor measuring 30 centimeters. In the cages there must be rabbits of the same age, weight and gender, as well as temperament.
To keep the males, round cells are made from a net with a diameter of 75 centimeters and 40 centimeters in height. Females can be kept in such cages. The floor is made from either mesh or wooden battens.
The success of homestead rabbit breeding not least depends on how carefully rabbit cages were made. Creating all conditions for the normal functioning of animals is a direct path to success.