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I have no idea what motivates
folks keeping rabbits but I can
tell you mine.
I bought a bunny for one reason
alone.
Manure for the patch!
However once I got him I knew
the unfairness of locking up any
animal and preventing them
from roaming and scrounging
for their food naturally and so
I decided to spoil him and I do.
I leave a deep tray of Alfalfa
free choice in the hutch and
provided an L shaped wooden
box of cedar for him which he
loves.
He gets a wide variety in his diet.
Huge carrots, dandelions, cabbage
lettuce, melons water melons
occasional strawberries and so on.
In the eats department he's happy.
Others who have more purpose
and have done more research than
I may cringe but he is alone, just
one forlorn bunny who never
looses his hope for freedom so
I spoil him.
You can't learn much from me
with respect to raising rabbits
but I can tell you how to keep
them alive year around in a
very harsh climate and that
includes a few hurricanes to boot.
He's up in years now and each
year I show him a little more
respect.
He is rapidly approaching my
age in his own way so I watch
him much closer than before.
I tried to give him up to three
sisters that I felt would hug
and play with him all day and
he loves girls but that never
came to fruition so I spoil
him.
Heheh
He's like a lathe.
He jumps on a giant carrot at
the tip and turns the entire
carrot from one spot as he
eats it and strips a layer from
the tip to the root end then
works his way back.
Heheh
Roses, he loves roses, stem
thorns and all.
I did supply him with two
clean hard wood sticks to chew
on because as mentioned his
tusks will grow continuously
throughout his life and would
kill him if they were not kept
in check and he does this by
chewing hard stuff such as
roots in the wild and wood in
the hutch,
Hardware cloth is what you
want to build your hutch with
but watch those salt mineral
blocks.
I get those for cattle and horses
as he goes through the others
way too fast.
So far so good but wire them
down to a steel pan or the salt
will burn its way through the
wire floor, trust me on this.
Heheh.
The hutch, a commercially made
hutch had a wooden back wall
that he chew a giant hole through.
I stopped that with chicken wire
across the back.
I would build him another of all
wire but the top with an over
size top that would be insulated
and at least 2 inches thick and
weighted with a nice walled in
room to one side and another
L shaped house but with every
thing else already on the table
I doubt that will happen.
One last thought.
I did put a drip line in the hutch
hidden inside a pvc pipe so every
time the drip system turns on his
water is refreshed and filled.
In face spills over for the better
part of an hour.
So long as I have only one ad not
raising for any purpose such as
meat for the table I just collect
his manure, and spoil him.
Heheh.
Train