What to do for the floor?

[GBov]

Have been searching old threads for some ideas of what to do with the floor of our new colony to be.

We are on pure sand in our part of Florida so drainage is no problem. I LIKE Macybabies concrete floor but with just me building the colony, not to sure if I want to be pouring concrete lol.

Then I thought of paving slabs. The rabbits wouldn't be able to dig through and it would be easier to lay them in the space I am going to be using.

THEN I thought of just laying wire on the ground. They cant dig through it and the pee would just drain away. Maybe.

And that's as far as I have gotten in my planing lol.

Whatever I build has got to last for as long as we live here and be strong enough to stand up to storms and look nice and be secure against predators and be easy to work.

So the floor is pretty important!

If you were building, what floor would YOU go with?

[Macybaby]

I like the idea of pavers, but have no idea how practile it would be. I've laid a few paver patios, and they seem to hold up well. I wonder how well that would work to cause the urine to drain, but still keep the rabbits out of the wet.

My concerns with wire (and they may not be valid) is how long it will last before rusting and breaking. I've had enouhg animals cut them selves on bits of broken wire poking up. Though wire should not be that hard to replace if you take that into consideration when you set things up. Another considereation with wire is size of openings. It won't take much to keep the rabbits from digging out, but what is the likely hood something would dig under and come up through the fence? Rats, snakes, or what ever you have in your area. We have not seen any small weasel types in our area, but in WI we had them and they would get through very small openings. We have mink here in SD, and they are a bit larger.

The main reason we went with concrete is that it makes the building way more usable for other purposes. I don't know if I would have gone with cement if I was building an area for the rabbits from scratch. Though we've got several cement slabs on the proeprty where soemthing use to be, and the PO had a farrowing area that is had a really nice cement floor. We took down the fencing and part our horse trailer on it.

[MaggieJ]

I think paving stones would work well. You could leave a half-inch or so between them and brush sand into the cracks afterwards and it should drain quite well. You might want to slant the pavers ever so slightly so they will drain better.

I wouldn't use wire. It will be very hard to clean out.

[GBov]

Thanks! I kinda thought that about the wire so I think its going to be paving slabs.

Its really exciting to be at the start of a project, isnt it?

[MaggieJ]

Yes, it is! And even more exciting when you're all finished and the rabbits are in their new colony.

[boundarybunnyco]

I thought about rubber stall mats, since there are several that were left here. If I used them, I would use planer shavings as bedding. Sound workable?