Would love to see pictures of outside bunny housing.

[Bricore]

Hello!
I just moved from Ohio to Alabama. I have 3 english angoras and my husband doesn't want them in the house. So, I need to build something were they can live and not die from heat here, be protected from rain, and still have a place to play where other critters can't get to them.
If, any of you have pictures of your outside bunny houses I'd love to see them. I need some fresh ideas.
I have a place behind my house that has trees but still gets a breeze. The nice thing is that I also have outdoor outlets for fans for them. We are also up high in a mountain so we are a little cooler then it is below (not much but it is some.)
I am thinking of something like a chicken tractor but for 3 rabbits with a run kind of (maybe one will have to walk down to get to the main part.) I am thinking I'd have to raise the floor some too because I wouldn't want them right on the ground because of their wool.
I am also going to putting frozen pop bottles in their cage to keep them cool. I really worry about the heat down here this coming summer.
Any pictures would be great to see.

Thank-you,

Dora Renee' Wilkerson

[SmokyShadow]

Hi. Sorry that I don't have any pictures. Where is AL are you? I'm in Ohatchee, (East Central) AL. The heat & humidity can get pretty bad, but I've never lost a rabbit to it *yet*. I have my rabbit cages set next to the woods and it's several degrees cooler there. I also use frozen pop bottles when it's over 90F.

[Bricore]

Hello!
I am in the Pell City/ Ragland area. I so hope they do ok here. I am glad to hear you haven't lost any. Gives me hope.

Dora

[MePreach]

Welcome to Alabama! I live between Jacksonville and Piedmont and have never lost on due to heat. I raise New Zealands and California in hanging cages under a shed and when it gets real hot I put a fan on them.

[KSALguy]

i live in Dothan and have my rabbits in a colony right now, i am going to build some cages for grow outs and such soon though,

i am not sure where Pell City is, Dothan is in the far south east corner just above the Florida line,

[tmfinley]

My rabbits are in a colony. If you want to see pics you can go to my blog at rockingrabbitranch.blogspot.com. I also have 3 buck cages outside. I'm not sure if I have pics of them or not, I will check.

[Bricore]

Thanks everyone.

I worried about them because they are wool rabbits and I wasn't too sure with the humid hot weather how they would hold up.

I will go check out your web site. Thank-you.

I am going to have to google it but how do you raise rabbits in a colony? I thought females would fight each other (I know I had two that I would let out at the same time and I had to stop doing that because it looked like the one was going to kill the other.) I would love to know how to keep them like that because they'd at least get the company of each other a lot more then they do the way I am doing it now.

Thanks,

Dora Renee' Wilkerson

[KSALguy]

Angoras if your keeping them for wool dont do well in a colony due to the fact they can and often do chew eachothers wool, and if you have them in a ground colony they will get all matted and nasty,

normal haird rabbits will do well in a colony if you start them off young so you avoid fighting or you will have to deal with older does setting up their pecking order and that can get messy,

if you start them off young they will be fine other wise each older doe usually wants to have her own territory and if allowed to make her own colony with her offspring,

[Ozarkquilter46]

if you bring up yahoo's main page, look at the space where you type and put in rabbit hutch, bunny hutch and right on top of that box it will say image click it then click search and you will find a bunch of pic's of outside cages