New Hutches

For a few years now, I've been using an old chicken coop - turned rabbit hutch into a 'nursery' where 4 different mothers with their litters could give birth and raise their babies.  However, with some unusually placed holes, many babies would slip in between sections, often times getting attacked by the other mothers, occasionally ending in death.  Or the occasional break in the wire, leading to babies falling through, either harming themselves or losing too much heat until found to recover. 

So after dealing with all that for the past few years, I've finally managed to get ahold of both cheap, and free hutches to completely replace that old 4 sectioned hutch! Not to mention, the one hutch is a double, so I actually gained another section. 

Above are the 4 new hutches, lined up in the middle of my rabbitry.  Luckily, with the new design and the placement of my structures which hold the wire cages, there's a fair bit of room for these hutches to remain where they are temporarily, without causing too much of an issue. 

They go all the way from one structure...

...to the other. 

And of course, all my other hutches are still lined up where they usually are.  Although these new hutches will be going where my old hutch currently is.  I'll have to dismantle the old hutch before being able to move these new hutches into their proper place. 

The front view of the new hutches. They'll all look much better once painted to look more uniform, matching all the other hutches. 

The big double hutch currently is holding the 5 Lop females I'm raising up to be breeders this spring.

Luckily, they're all fairly easy-going in temperament, so there hasn't been any issues with aggression.

The broken blue female on the left - from Cupcake's litter, sired by Gorman.  And the other two are from Cora's litter, also sired by Gorman.

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The broken Chocolate female, from Bonnie's litter.  She seems to be the most dominant, occasionally trying to hump the others.  However, she's not acting aggressive towards the others. 

And the broken Black female with blue eyes, sisters to the two others from Cora and Gorman's litter.  All 3 females have blue eyes.  However, this female has one marbled eye, a mix of blue and brown.

Luckily, they're all around the same size, helping to avoid any attacks. 

There is a middle section which can be raised, completely separating the 2 different sections.  However for now, keeping the section down allows the 5 females a larger amount of space to roam around in.