The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Other => Rabbits => Topic started by: OhLaLa on January 25, 2011, 03:01:49 pm
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Any ideas as to what I can use as a nestbox? My doe is one BIG bunny.
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Hi
We didn't use anything for our does. They decided they were quite happy to make their nests in the sleeping compartment of the hutches. Maybe your girl will too. :bunny:
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mine always use their bed compartment but if you wanted a box you could use a big plastic storage box just cut a hole in the front n the go around the edge of the hole with a lighter or something similar to melt the pastic a bit and smooth with the back of a teaspoon, good luck ;D
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just to hijack (sorry!)
my girls live together in a hutch enclosed by a massive run.
if more than one of them kindled at a similar time, could I set up several of these boxes, as I just dont think theyd take well to being separated.
Smokey made herself a burrow under the hutch for a phantom pregnancy, and her daughters "helped" her make a nest
this last summer, (I suspect they'd make better mothers than her!)
In the wild, they'd leave the kits and be together in the day ... so would they do this in an enclosure, without harming each others babies?
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Thanks for replies. I'll follow suit and leave her to make her own nest where ever she wants in her sleeping section.
In the wild, they'd leave the kits and be together in the day ... so would they do this in an enclosure, without harming each others babies?
I keep my girl separate, I think warrens offer up a much larger space than anything we could provide.
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