Any practitioner of the rabbit will say how important it is to create rabbits comfortable living conditions.

Since the most common method of maintaining home bunnies is cellular, provide good living conditions and relieve cleaning will help a properly designed cell.

In addition, an important aspect in its creation is the quality and safety of materials (including environmental).

Options There are two: either buy a ready-made house for a rabbit, or make it my own.

The second option is not only less cost in financial plan, but also more preferable, since the owner built by the owner itself makes it possible to take into account the specific number of rabbits and the peculiarities of their breed. Next, we will look at how to build a cell for rabbits with your own hands.

The design of the cells for rabbits and materials for its manufacture with their own hands.

Whatever your chosen the design of the rabbit house, the basis of it is always the same and consists of the following main parts:

• carrier frame;
• walls;
• ceiling;
• doors.

Cells for these pets can be made either from wooden materials or made of metal mesh, however, no one cannot make them out of iron. It will greatly damage the health of your pets, because in the summer heat such a cell will be overheated, and in the winter strule, on the contrary, it is thoroughly wrapped. These cells for rabble are absolutely contraindicated.

For the manufacture of a frame with their own hands, as a rule, thick wooden bars are used, given the fact that the cell legs in length should be at least 35-centimeters (if it is planned to put cells indoors). If rabbits are planned to keep on the street, the height of the legs should be increased - from 70 centimeters to one meter. In addition to considerations of safety and comfort for animals, such a height of rabbit housing will significantly make it easier for its service. The material for the walls is usually served either sheets of plywood or wooden boards, or a metal grid.

Cells for rabbits from the grid are not fully made, since they need to be protected from foreign eye shelter. When flooring in cells and feeders, it is best to apply a grid or wooden rails tightening the fuel or wooden rails, because the waste of feed and animal life waste products are well poured through the cell. For the manufacture of the roof take the same materials as for the walls. When the roof is in industrial cells that are outdoors, it must be coated with additional insulating materials (tile, rubberoid) to protect against snow and rain.

It is important to remember that any detail in the cell must be made safe and smooth. The grid should not be acute ends, and on wooden parts should be carefully polished so that the animals did not have a zoom and other injuries. These rodents are very curious, and can climb anywhere.

The most popular cell structures for rabbits are:

• the usual cell (or without a mother liquor, or with a royalnik);
• construction I.N. Mikhailova;
• design N.I. Zolotukhina;
• the cell in which the flowing aviary for rabbits is provided.

The first type of construction includes two compartments: the first - for walking and feeding, the second - the shelter-nest. Between themselves, these sections are separated by a solid partition, which provides for LAZ. The door to the shelter is made of solid from the tree, and in the rulment-feed zone - from the grid stretched into the frame. If free space allows, walking can be made separately from feeding zone (aviary for rabbits). The entrance to such enclosures can be done both through the rear wall of the cell, and below, through the floor.

The dwellings with a separate aviary are well suited for mating animals, since large envelope enclosure allows you to increase the motor activity of animals, which not only has a beneficial effect on the general physical condition, but also improves their reproductive functions.

Industrial cells for rabbits through the Mikhailov system are real mini farms, as a result of which this design is considered the most difficult in manufacturing and advanced. In such dwellings, almost everything is provided: heated drinkers and sumps, ventilation system, shelves for recreation. A distinctive feature of cells of such a design is a unique system for removing animal life waste.

Construction of Mikhailov cells

Where they are neither shy - everything falls into one container. Also on such mini-farms, a bunker feeder for rabbits is applied, which allows you to set food once or twice a week, as well as drip drivers that dosing water from a large reservoir. This design is the topic of a separate article. We are considering simpler options that can be made with your own hands, although the use of bunker feeders in them is also possible.

The Zolozhinsky option is different from other things that the solid sheets of plywood or a flat slate are stacked instead of the rail or mesh design. The pallet for waste in such cells is absent. All the trick is that the floor is shutd up with a slight inclination, and on the rear wall of the cell mounted a grid of 10 to 20 centimeters. Flasts of animals are removed through this grid, since rabbits most often prefer to shy near the rear wall.

Feeders for rabbits in the cells of this design - a tipping type, and for their cleaning there is no need to shoot them. It is enough just to tilt the feeder to yourself and remove the residues of food. In the feeder necessarily put the grid to prevent the escape through it small rabbit.

Also, the System of Zolotukhina does not provide for the summer motherball. The author proposes to cut the board with a width of 20 centimeters for the time of okrol and subsequent feeding the place of the desired size, which is filled with hay. The rabbit in this place will establish a nest itself. This method of breeding as much as possible rabbits to the natural conditions of their lives, which allows to get a rabbit with a more stable immune system. Standing rabbits to grow up - the board is taken, freeing them the space for walking. In winter, such an approach is unacceptable, and you need to install a closed sump.

An important advantage of the Zolukhin design is that it does not need to own special skills and apply expensive materials for its construction and use expensive materials.

For the manufacture of such dwellings, accessible and cheap materials are needed: boards, mesh, plywood sheets or flat slate, as well as a small amount of sheet metal. A frame is made of wood, socket door and a solid partition. For the floor device, plywood or slate (flat) is taken. Partitions for feeders and an external door are made from the grid. Sheet metal is needed in order to close from rabbits protruding wooden parts that they love to gnaw. There should be no drafts in the socket compartment, as well as a lot of light, so the door is made in a solid one. In the royaltics it is necessary to provide a threshold of at least 10 centimeters high so that some rabbits do not fall from it when the door is opened.

So that the waste from the cells of the upper tier does not fall into the lower, the rear wall there should be done straight, and on the lower tier - with a slope.

Cells on golden

How to make a cell for rabbits?

The sequence of actions in the manufacture of cells for rabbits with their own hands is as follows:

1. the first thing from the wooden bars of 5x5 centimeters is made of frame, and the mesh is mounted on the floor compartment;
2. then the posterior wall and the solid floor of the socket separation are placed;
3. plywood sheets are closed by side walls and a partition is installed with a pre-cutting laser between the feed and socket offices. The size of the LAZ should be at least 20 centimeters in diameter;
4. the lid is installed on the socket;
5. a barcass is attached to the frame in the middle of the cell, separating it on the sections, and then the drinkers and feeders for rabbits are mounted (how to make drinking for rabbits and how to make a feeder for rabbits - the topic of individual articles);
6. the resulting design turns over, and with the help of the RECES, the grid on the floor is fixed finally;
7. the feed bunkers and the separation for rough feeds can be put on the rods, and it is possible - a grid with 2x5 centimeters cells;
8. then the roof is installed on the cage and the movable door for feeders is installed;
9. mesh and solid doors fitted with valves are attached to the frame.

If the cells are outdoors, it is necessary to cover the roof with a moisture-proof roofing material. To do this, the retained roof is hampered by a camcass, to which the roof is attached (rubberoid or slate). The roof should be with a bias for water juice. For example, if the height of the front wall is 70 centimeters, then the rear wall should be 60-tons.

Whatever design you have decided to make, be sure to make detailed cell drawings with sizes. Such a scheme will help you not be mistaken during construction and in advance to purchase the desired amount of materials. The size of the cells at the grid used in the manufacture of housing for the ras must exceed 2x2 centimeters. In the larger cells, animals can be stuck.

Before starting to build a rabbit, you need to choose a suitable place to accommodate it.