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Building our bunny condo

2/28/2016

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After spending hours scouring the web and farm and garden stores for the best prices, we settled on a ready made rabbit cage kit to start with.  What I was searching for was something stackable for my daughter's new rabbit business, I found it and luckily Rural King was running a sale.

We made a run and picked up 3 cages to house our doe and two bucks.  They looked easy enough to put together and I loved the stacking option for space saving and looks.  My daughter plans on using a larger hutch as a brooding box for mama rabbit and her kits once they are born, more on that later.

So here is the box and what it contained, I have to admit being a little befuttled at first, but with the help of another mom, we figured it all out and I think that aside from having very sore hands from all the wire crimping, we came out pretty good.
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I have to say that now that I have built a bunny cage, even a stackable one, I believe that if a person is going to do a number of these it would be a cost savings to buy rolls of 1" x 1/2" wire, crimps and clasps and do it yourself.  I am pleased with my purchase because honestly until I saw the thing come together I couldn't have conceptualized it, but I now know for future bunny condos.

Here is the cage double stacked and then also after the third tier was added and it was placed in our barn.  The empty cage on top was just filled as we now have one doe and two buck rabbits.
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My daughter decided to waste no time so she bred a doe and buck earlier last week.  It was quite comical as the mating ritual of rabbits is not only very quick and short lived, but also has a funny finale.  I learned a new term "fall off" it is when the male is done mating and he literally "falls off" and appears to have fainted for all of 1.5 seconds before rebounding and hopping around the cage again.  It was laugh out loud kind of funny. 

My daughter now has the calender marked, we will be palpatating the doe's belly to see if we have kits in another week and after that we add a nest box on day #28 and the kits should arrive on day # 31.  The due date of our dear Cleo the doe is just 2 days before Easter, isn't that perfect?
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