chicken coop, rabbit hutch hoop houses

Both my chicken coop and my rabbit hutch are hoop houses, made from 16' galvanized cattle panels. Hutch is 95% done, will be getting the rabbits soon.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• rabbit hutch
• chicken coop
• suburban rabbits
• suburban chickens
• home food production
• hoop house

[thatdudeonyourscreen]

@weldermatt07 Can you place several males together, and same with females together, just not both sexes together?

[jojobunnys]

Can you put the Rabbits in the same coop?

[weldermatt07]

@hannanasje1987 yeah u can't keep rabbits together in a big pen, especially both sexes together, they must not know that the males will overbreed the females, and other rabbits will sometimes kill other rabbits babies, they must be seperate especially with babies, and always seperated from males, except when time to breed. You have a very nice setup, i will post some videos of my stuff one day.

[weldermatt07]

@RedeemingDogs I have raised poultry for years, and believe it or not i have never had a rooster attack my son, a toddler, everything i raise has always been very good, but i have been to other peoples house who's roosters were kinna mean. I had a black giant rooster that was such a good rooster, when i would feed them table scraps, he would call the hens over and give them all some feed before he would it, it amazed me how much he took care of his ladies.

[RedeemingDogs]

@hannanasje1987 - No problem. The only reason we have domesticated rabbits today is because they were specifically domesticated long ago to eat and for their pelts. I like that some folks keep them as pets, and they probably make great ones, but we keep them for the use that they were originally domesticated for.

[hannanasje1987]

@RedeemingDogs oh i thougth they were pets

sorry

[RedeemingDogs]

@hannanasje1987 - I want these rabbits to have quality of life but they are not in any way pets, they are for meat and to provide fertilizer, so they need to be intact to be bred for litters and it needs to be easy to collect poop/pee for fertilizer

[hannanasje1987]

@RedeemingDogs

you said alot of things that you could help.

no floor...you know how.. you dont look poor

rabbit breeding: you can fix them.

diseases: you can prevent them.

poop: mine is littertrained: its so easy.

i don't say your bad for your animals cause all the other look very happy and have so much room but thats why i think its so sad for the bunnies.

[RedeemingDogs]

@hannanasje1987 - A lot of reasons why they aren't loose in the building. There is no floor, they would dig out very quickly. We also have foxes, skunks, coyotes, and raccoons here, they would be more inclined to dig under were the rabbits loose. I could not control the breedings with loose rabbits, and the wild rabbits here could make physical contact with them and pass diseases, and finally I could not have tarps under the cages for pee/poop, ground would foul quickly. Hope that helps.

[hannanasje1987]

@samuelwaynefoleyjr why arent your rabbits running free in such a big hutch ?