As a drinking bowl for rabbits it is possible to use any ready capacity: iron or plastic bowl, plate and so forth. Feature of behavior of rodents such is that they often spill water and litter it with a grass of a laying and a forage. Therefore any drinking bowl it is necessary to fix reliably or to cage walls, or to its floor. But it is necessary to make it so that capacity could be taken out, washed and changed without effort in it water.
It is required to you
- - plastic bottle
- - dropper
- - heat insulator
- - device with the heating regulator
- - adhesive tape
Instruction
1. The simple and convenient drinking bowl in operation is made of a big plastic bottle. Insert a hollow metal tube of suitable section on which water is pumped into a stopper. In the lower part of a bottle cut out a rectangular opening of such size that in it the muzzle of an animal could be located.
2. No more than 8-10 cm recede from a bottom, there will be enough such volume of the turned-out glass in order that the animal did not thirst between inclusions of a water supply system. Liquid has to arrive from above through a tube, filling space at a bottom. The drinking bowl needs to be fixed at one of cage walls by means of a wire.
3. If animals are held in badly warmed open-air cage, in winter time water needs to be warmed up. As it is difficult to provide this process in each drinking bowl, build the pipeline on which warm liquid from the general capacity moves. As pipes it is possible to use thin rubber hoses, droppers.
4. All highway needs to be warmed well. It is for this purpose recommended to take Izolon 4 mm thick, to cut it on strips of the required width, to wrap up in them tubes and to fix a heat insulator by means of an adhesive tape or an insulating tape. For automatic heating of water it is possible to use the heater with a temperature regulator (such devices establish in aquariums).
5. The simple, but easily served drinking bowl, is made of a can and an ordinary mug. Banks process edges so that the animal about them was not wounded. In a tin wall do two openings through which pass a wire. Then to bank fix to a cage wall. In this capacity install a mug with water which is taken out as required and washed.
6. It is possible to use also such option: over a can strengthen a plastic bottle so that its neck on 1-2 mm did not reach to the bottom tin capacity. At a bottle it is necessary to cut off a bottom and to pour in it water. As animals drink liquid from banks, it will be added in it from a bottle.
7. If the container with water costs on a cage floor, the animal itself will understand what this stock is intended for. To the drinking bowl strengthened on a wall of a cage, rabbits need to be accustomed. For this purpose their attention is attracted with percussion about edge of a cage or a conversation. Then it will be required to dip a finger into the container with water and to allow each animal to smell it. If to moisten with a water drop a muzzle of a rabbit, he will understand purpose of capacity on a cage wall quicker. Having acted this way several times, you soon accustom animals to drink water from independently made drinking bowl.