Rabbit Housing: Planning, Building, and Equipping Facilities for Humanely Raising Healthy Rabbits - Softcover

Bennett, Bob

 
9781603429665: Rabbit Housing: Planning, Building, and Equipping Facilities for Humanely Raising Healthy Rabbits

Synopsis

Create a safe, sanitary, and efficient home for your rabbits. In this informative guide, Bob Bennett provides clear step-by-step instructions for building attractive all-wire hutches of all sizes, with additional tips for adding the necessary accessories like feeders, watering systems, nest boxes, and fencing. From the direction a hutch door should swing to proper ventilation and protection from predators, Bennett covers everything you need to know to create a housing structure that will help promote a healthy and productive rabbit-raising operation.

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About the Author

Bob Bennett is the author of six books on rabbit raising, including Storey’s Guide to Raising Rabbits and Rabbit Housing, as well as numerous magazine and newspaper articles. He has served as the editor of Rabbits magazine, has been a contributing editor to Countryside magazine, and is the founder of Domestic Rabbits and a past director of the American Rabbit Breeders Association. An Air Force veteran, Bennett has a master’s degree from New York University and lives in Vermont, where he has raised rabbits for more than 50 years.

From the Back Cover

The Best Hutches for Your Rabbits

Provide a secure environment for your rabbits with a well-built rabbitry. Rabbit-raising expert Bob Bennett has built more than a few hutches over the years, and he shares his plans for designing and building efficient facilities for sheltering backyard rabbits in safety and comfort, whether it's just two or as many as one hundred. If you're interested in growing into a large-scale commercial operation, Bennett will help you begin your expansion, too. Profiles of rabbit owners across the United States offer first-hand accounts of successful housing projects, lessons learned from those that were less successful, and inside glimpses of innovative methods and unique facilities.

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