. Rabbits and dollars; the book that teaches coined rabbitology ... well to seethat these are still in the box a day or so before she litters. The advantages of a nest box of this type are the cheaper con-struction, as it costs less than to build one into a hutch and is lessbother, and mainly, that it is so much easier to keep clean and sani-tary. After the young are three or four weeks old, or a bit olderin the winter, the nest box may be taken out, scraped, cleaned andpainted. Then it is ready for the next doe to use. After the babies come keep up the milk diet as well as the regu-lar feedin
. Rabbits and dollars; the book that teaches coined rabbitology ... well to seethat these are still in the box a day or so before she litters. The advantages of a nest box of this type are the cheaper con-struction, as it costs less than to build one into a hutch and is lessbother, and mainly, that it is so much easier to keep clean and sani-tary. After the young are three or four weeks old, or a bit olderin the winter, the nest box may be taken out, scraped, cleaned andpainted. Then it is ready for the next doe to use. After the babies come keep up the milk diet as well as the regu-lar feeding, until they are about a month old, when the milk dietmay be discontinued. But it should be borne in mind that no greatchange of diet should take place between the time the mother isbred and the time the young are weaned. Especially does this applyto the addition of new foods, so that the larger quantities youcan purchase your hays and grains in, the better it will be, on accountof the ability to keep on one style of feeding all the time. 18 RABBITS AND DOLLARS. NEST BOX -SHOWINGLib CONSTkUCTION Do not examine the babies at all, nor attempt to clean the hutchuntil they are at least three days old. Then pursue carefully thefollowing method: Remove the doe from the hutch and put her on the table or inanother hutch. Put on gloves, if you wish, or not, but in either case rub yourhands lightly in a dry place on the hutch floor, then stroke the stom-ach of the mother doe quite a few times. This is to get the scentof the mother on your hands or gloves. Now notice just what position the next box is in, and which wayit faces. Take it out and pry off the cover which you have securedwith a small nail or two. Count the young quickly, removing any dead, and replace the nextbox any way you found it. Put in some green stuff, or some bread, or else a little con-densed milk into the feed bowl to furnish some detraction, so she RABBITS AND DOLLARS 19 will not get immediately to her babies. By t
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