Care for a rabbit is not difficult and does not demand special efforts. However when it is necessary to grow up several animals for sale, on the site establish impressive cages and to feed pets becomes quite troublesome. In this case it is possible to apply convenient and simple rabbits feeders. The cost of such addition to the open-air cage is quite often high. To save, you can make a feeding trough with own hands from inexpensive material.
It is required to you
- - the angular machine for cutting threw;
- - big metal tin;
- - mesh box for chickens;
- - drill;
- - grid with small cells;
- - nippers;
- - strong scissors;
- - plastic collars;
- - nuts;
- - bolts;
- - screws;
- - metal brackets.
Instruction
1. Rabbits have to have a forage constantly. To solve this problem, you can make the hands a simple feeding trough of bunker type. For this purpose in advance prepare a big metal tin, threw the angular machine for cutting, flat-nose pliers and a drill.
2. At first clean a can from the remains of contents and dry it. Then cut off a part banks to the level at which its ridge surface comes to an end. Set aside exactly a half.
3. So, a front part banks is cut off. Bend its keen edges by means of flat-nose pliers to avoid emergence of cuts. Check to the touch whether rabbit feeder is safe. Level that part which you cut off earlier.
4. We bore through a set of openings in the bottom banks. Their diameter has to be rather large that the forage for an animal could get enough sleep without effort. Too turn in edges of the cut-off part by means of flat-nose pliers.
5. After that collect a design. Device of feeding troughs of this kind quite simple: a flat part by means of nuts with bolts or screws fasten to a basis. Also rivets will approach. In conclusion screw rabbit feeder on a cage wall then fill in sterns.
6. Rabbits need to chew a dry grass often. It is possible to provide to it continuous access by means of special feeding troughs. You can make them of mesh boxes in which in poultry market quite often sell chickens. Just it will be required to cut a wire and to eliminate an internal part, having made such box narrower.
7. If you have no hens and specially you do not want to get similar cages, it is necessary to make rabbit feeder in a different way. For this purpose take nippers, metal brackets, a grid with rather small cells and plastic collars which quite often apply to fixing of wires that it was possible to connect device walls among themselves.
8. It is desirable to take a grid with cells about 1х1 centimeters. Cut out feeding trough detail nippers. Their layout and quantity you can see on the drawing.
9. When you cut out all details, start assembly. Record plastic collars of a wall of a self-made feeding trough for a rabbit. Surely track that there is no sticking-out end of a wire left as your pet can be wounded about them.
10. From a piece of a wire or a usual paper clip bend brackets. With their help you will cling a ready rabbit feeder on cage walls. Also you can cut out one square from a grid and to leave two long ends of a wire. Here such simple rabbits feeders can be made the hands. They quite easy are also very convenient in operation.