Building A Wood Rabbit Cage

Today I built another rabbit cage for one of my does and her new babies. In case anybody wanted to built something like this, I took pictures.

This is the back of the cage. I started off my screwing a 4 ft long piece of furring strip to the top. These pieces of plywood are pretty thin so I need these to attach the plywood to.

Here I attached some 18 inch pieces to the side to give me the height of the inside of the cage. I then put a 5ft piece of hardware cloth where the floor will be. You can see already that the floor of the cage will not reach the ground. This is to keep the bottom of the cage out of their 'bathroom' area.

Then I attached the sides and started to fold in the extra wire on the sides. I also attached pieces of wood to hold the sides of the floor in place.

Here I've cut the doors and attached the front panel of wire to the sides. The door openings are 8x12 inches. The doors themselves (which I had to cut out of some wire from other project) are 10x16 inches. On the top right you can see I've put another pieces of wood along the top edge. This is to screw the top to. In this picture you can also see the space under the cage. The back and sides act as legs.

After this picture I put another piece of wood on the left side and screwed the top into place. I also used a 4ft piece of wood to attach the top of the wire to the top of the cage. Oh, and I also installed the doors by using pull ties as hinges and spring clips to keep the doors closed.

These are the two cages side by side. The new one is the one on the right. Some of the wood I used was a bit warped so you can see it's not square. But the rabbits don't care so neither do I. It still keeps them safe and comfy. I still need to trim off all the pull ties I used to connect the front and bottom wire panels. But that can be done whenever I get to it. Again, the rabbits don't care so neither do I.

I moved Jenny (the momma of the older babies) over to the new cage so that Hermione and her babies could have the cage with the nest box in the corner. I also moved the pvp pipe feeder over to the new cage so that Jenny and the babies could eat out of what they were used to. I have another bit of pvp pipe that I will use to do the same thing for the other cage.

If anybody has any questions on this build, I'll be more than happy to answer them to the best of my ability. For now, yall take care and have a good night.