. Boies' utility rabbits for meat and fur. Rabbits. real bottom, four inches below. The hay rack keeps your hay cleail and saves lots that would be soiled and wasted otherwise. The nest box is all that can be desired. Figure 7-A. B. C. shows detail draw- ings of the slatted bottom, hay rack, and tlie nest drawer. The real bottom should have a pitch of an inch (jr two, which will allow the water to run off. Both the real bottom and the slatted bottom should be painted with asphalt paint, so that they will not absorb moisture. This will make a practical hutch for large rabbitries and can be buil
. Boies' utility rabbits for meat and fur. Rabbits. real bottom, four inches below. The hay rack keeps your hay cleail and saves lots that would be soiled and wasted otherwise. The nest box is all that can be desired. Figure 7-A. B. C. shows detail draw- ings of the slatted bottom, hay rack, and tlie nest drawer. The real bottom should have a pitch of an inch (jr two, which will allow the water to run off. Both the real bottom and the slatted bottom should be painted with asphalt paint, so that they will not absorb moisture. This will make a practical hutch for large rabbitries and can be built three-high and connecting on another to meet the recpiirements of the biulding. One man can clean 50 of these hutches in the same time it will take to clean two or three of the other forms. Another arrangement for a self-cleaning hutch is shown in Figure 5B. The floor in this case is made to slant towards the back of the hutch and a space about four inches wide and the length of the. Fi&-9. BoiL<)' hohZL fRE.')H Aif; Hou^E forKaruit^, hutch is covered with one-half inch mesh wire cloth, w liich will allow the excrement to drop through. Figure 9 shows a fresh-air house that will give you good results. First, it has been proven, beyond question, by numerous experiments, that a one-pitch roof like this one will give you a warmer house in winter and a cooler one during the hot weather, also the air keeps in much better condition than in a house with a two-pitch roof. The building should be built facing the southward when possible to do so. Make a frame of 2x4 studding and cover it with tongue and groove lumber, ship lap, or novelty siding. The back or north side should also be lined on the inside with matched lumber with a layer of tar or building paper next to the studding. The roof should be covered with matched lumber, then some good building paper. Do not make any floor unless you use concrete, as a board floor just makes a harbor for rats, mice and other vermon. Seven
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