Rabbit CagesRabbit cages, or rabbit hutches? Homemade or commercially constructed? The choices are yours.Sponsored Links Whether you keep rabbits as pets or raise meat rabbits commercially, you'll need a cage or a hutch for each rabbit. The cage is best constructed of all wire -- saves you lots of cleaning time. The wire bottom allows the urine and droppings to fall out of the cage, allowing for clean air and a clean environment. We'll review for you some construction methods of rabbit cages and hutches, plus give you links to the methods of building rabbit cages and hutch frames that we use. (All our cages and hutches are homemade.) Reviews of Various Commercial and Homemade Rabbit Hutch Plans ...There are a plethora of store-bought wooden cages, hutches and attached rabbit runs available! Some of them are quite pricy, although very cute. You see lovely wood hutches with a ramp down to a little grassy area, and a bunny nibbling away happily. That little scene lasts for about 24 hours. Doesn't take long for a single rabbit to chew every blade of grass to the dirt. If you want to give your bunny more freshly growing grass, you'll need to drag the whole thing to new pastures. Beware wooden cages, unless your rabbit has been trained to not poo or pee in any of the wooden areas. Additionally, rabbits chew by nature, so you can expect substantial chewing damage eventually.  Use an Angle iron hutch frame for hanging your wire cages. NOTE: Avoid using S-hooks to hang cages unless you have access to the back of the framework, only because it can be very frustrating to get the cages off the S-hooks if you cannot reach them! PLANS FROM THE LSU AG CENTER The LSU Ag Center offers several plans for rabbit hutches and cages, from a simple hutch to a building with commercial potential. Go to the LSU AG Center website to check them all out. We'll review a few of their plans here: A 2-cage single, or 4-cage double tiered and covered rabbit hutch. This hutch plan includes a feed hopper between two cages, as well as a hay manger. It even includes details for a rabbit nest box drawer! How easy would that be for checking on the bunnies! Cages will have a wire floor, yet not be completely "all-wire." Depending on how tidy your rabbit is, you may need to do frequent cleaning in the areas where the rabbit poop piles up on the wood floor where the wire is stapled. One more caveat: the plans call for poultry mesh. I think I would definitely change that out in favor of 1"x2" inch welded wire. More expensive, but a lot safer against predators. A simple 2-cage covered rabbit hutch. This hutch, while covered, is very open to the elements. In blustery climates, it would probably need to be better protected on three sides, not as much from the temperature as from the wind. It probably works great in Louisiana! Yet the plans don't look too difficult to modify for your local conditions. The LSU Ag Center also offers plans for a shed that could hold up to 12 rabbit cages, a shelter for two rows of meat rabbit cages, and for a large rabbit barn housing several rows of cages. If you're looking for something bigger than a couple hutches, click on the link for more cage and housing options. Homemade Cages - Building Methods Recommended by Raising-Rabbits.comFree Plans for Rabbit Cages, Hutches and Run:Our All-Wire Cage Plans provides instructions for building a 36" x 30" all-wire cage. It's big enough for a large meat rabbit doe and her up-to-8 bunnies. They can all stay together until market day, at 8-10 weeks old. It's not hard to adjust the size of the cage, especially with the instructions provided by one of our World of Raising Rabbits E-books. Pet Rabbit Living Spaces Pet Rabbit Living Spaces is available as an instant-download e-book. Just so you know - it's a big file...we crammed it full of pictures and illustrations so we could over-deliver on value. It's our hands-on, do-it-yourself manual of plans and instructions for creating a variety of rabbit homes and exercise spaces for your pet rabbits, both indoors and outside. 
For complete information, go to Pet Rabbit Living Spaces.  DIY Livestock Rabbit Housing for Meat & Show Rabbits provides ideas, plans and extensively illustrated directions for housing methods well-suited to livestock rabbits. These are the methods used at Aurora Rex Rabbit Ranch. Plus we offer reviews of other rabbit housing options.  For complete information, go to Rabbit Hutch Building Plans. (See our Double-Value Guarantee and full details at either of the above links.) Our international visitors might wonder why breeders in the United States almost always choose all-wire cages over solid floors. Angela, the top-notch breeder at Shiny Satins Rabbitry, explains all-wire floors very well. Best Rabbit Supply Sources for
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