Before starting rabbit breeding occupation, it is necessary to take care of placement of rabbits. For this purpose it is possible to buy already ready cages, but it will be much more interesting to make them own hands especially as in it there is nothing difficult. However in construction of a cage it is necessary to consider some features in rules thanks to which cultivation of rabbits will seem you the real hobby.
Instruction
1. First of all it is necessary to decide on quantity of cages which will be necessary for you for cultivation of rabbits. On only one female with her posterity at least three cages will be required. One for mother and two for young growth. Also the separate cage for a male will be required. The young growth can be contained in one cell till 7-10 of the heads.
2. For construction of a cage it is possible to use the most various material, it can be a tree, adobe or a brick. The most important that in it it was convenient to rabbits, and a krolikovod was convenient to be looked after and served behind them.
3. If you decided to grow up rabbits under the open sky (for example, at the dacha), then the cage needs to be established by such principle: deal with a cage support, it can be the wooden racks driven in the earth. On them the cage for rabbits will also keep. The most important element of a rabbit cage is a rack or mesh floor which has to be made of an oak, a maple or a beech. Paule needs to make with a small bias, about five centimeters in order that urine flew down.
4. For a male it is possible to make a round cage, 40 centimeters in height and with a diameter about 70-75 centimeters. The young growth has to contain in cages which length has to be 170 cm, width - 70 cm, height – 50 cm. It is recommended to do a roof of Teso from 30 by a centimetric peak. In a front wall arrange a day nursery for hay and also drinking bowls and feeding troughs.
5. For construction of a double cage you need 0.2 sq.m of timber, 60 cm2 of a grid with cells of 35х35 mm, 1.3 sq.m of the metal gauze with cells of 18х18 mm. Length of such cage will be about two meters, height – 0.75 meters.
6. In front of a cage hang up two mesh doors which have to conduct in fodder office and two board – which conduct in nested offices. On a door hang up removable feeding troughs and drinking bowls. Cages it is better to arrange in the territory set with trees. In the winter they will protect rabbits from ice wind, and in the summer from direct sunshine.
7. As a laying use straw or sawdust, place hay in a day nursery. Buy nail clippers, holders for vegetables, a mineral stone and a brush for care for hair of rabbits, especially if it long-haired breed.