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Any school boy can learn how to build a rabbit house with a wooden dry-goods box, a few nails, and some wire poultry netting. You don’t always need rabbit hutch plans.
It is best to use a box about four feet long, 18 inches high and 2 feet deep.
The front of the box is removed, and two grooves 4 inches long and 1 inch deep are cut in each side at the bottom to hold tho door in place. The door is made in two pieces—the lower being solid and acting as a base for the door to which it is hinged by two 2-inch butts.
The door frame should just fit the inside of the box nicely, and is made from one-inch boards—2 inches wide. The wire netting is nailed on from the inside of the door. At cleaning time, the whole front of the hutch may be taken out by turning the wooden button.
It is a good plan to paint the hutch outside with oil paint, and on the inside with whitewash.
The floor should be given one coat of tar, and sand sprinkled evenly on the surface, which will make the hutch water and damp proof and easily disinfected. These box hutches can then be stacked in tiers; one on top of the other; and a great many rabbits accommodated in a small space.
The bottom row should be placed 12 to 18 inches off the floor or off the ground. From 19 to 12 square feet of floor space is the rule as to size of hutches.
Hutches may be made “self cleaning” by tho use of a slatted floor. This can be made from one inch square strings, running the long way of the hutch, and the floor set on cleats about two inches from the hutch bottom. The hutch dropping then falls through the slats to the floor below, and are easily cleaned out.
