chicken coop, rabbit hutch hoop houses
Both my chicken coop and my rabbit hutch are hoop houses, made from 16′ galvanized cattle panels. Hutch is 95% done, will be getting the rabbits soon.
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@cantecleer – we are allowed to have chickens here but why antagonize the
neighbors with roosters? I also have small kids that want to help with the
chickens and I don’t want some rooster spurring them…
Do you have a video of making the pens ? Awesome design . Thanks for the
video
Thank you.
Those poor rabbits. You know they will develope sore hocks! Or even bummble
foot!
Of course not, they are your pets and you love them. But one person’s pet
is another’s food, there are people that have pet cows and pigs but plenty
of others eat them…
so not for pets?
@hannanasje1987 – No problem. The only reason we have domesticated rabbits
today is because they were specifically domesticated long ago to eat and
for their pelts. I like that some folks keep them as pets, and they
probably make great ones, but we keep them for the use that they were
originally domesticated for.
It is right around 6′ tall inside.
Sure. Rabbits, chickens and (gasp) guinea pigs were originally domesticated
to be eaten. I respect the rights of anyone who keeps them as pets, they
are fine pets, but that is not the role they fill in my life or the lives
of the majority of the people who keep them.
do you really eat them???
so you would eat my guinea pigs if you could get your hands on them
I don’t think you should put the rabbits with chickens, just what I’ve been
told.
that is a nice hutch. if you put the hutches higher, you could just slide a
wheelbarrow underneath
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@hannanasje1987 – A lot of reasons why they aren’t loose in the building.
There is no floor, they would dig out very quickly. We also have foxes,
skunks, coyotes, and raccoons here, they would be more inclined to dig
under were the rabbits loose. I could not control the breedings with loose
rabbits, and the wild rabbits here could make physical contact with them
and pass diseases, and finally I could not have tarps under the cages for
pee/poop, ground would foul quickly. Hope that helps.
@RedeemingDogs you said alot of things that you could help. no floor…you
know how.. you dont look poor rabbit breeding: you can fix them. diseases:
you can prevent them. poop: mine is littertrained: its so easy. i don’t say
your bad for your animals cause all the other look very happy and have so
much room but thats why i think its so sad for the bunnies.
@RedeemingDogs I have raised poultry for years, and believe it or not i
have never had a rooster attack my son, a toddler, everything i raise has
always been very good, but i have been to other peoples house who’s
roosters were kinna mean. I had a black giant rooster that was such a good
rooster, when i would feed them table scraps, he would call the hens over
and give them all some feed before he would it, it amazed me how much he
took care of his ladies.
sometimes a hen will crow when there is no rooster to step up to the plate.
Once the wood frames are fastened on the ends of the hoops the buildings
are incredibly rigid. I think I could climb up on top and stand easily. So
the frames on the end are key.
@samuelwaynefoleyjr why arent your rabbits running free in such a big hutch
?
I’m building a setup like yours for my chickens and I was wondering how you
keep the panels stable? I’ve got landscape timbers on bottom strapped to
rebar that’s pounded into the ground and the cattle panel hoop is against
the landscape timbers on the inside. My panel is kinda wobbly, like back
and forth. Will it be more stable once I add more panels or do I need to do
more? I noticed in yours you had wood agianst your panels on the inside and
the outside? Is it attatched or what?
I used 5 panels for the rabbit building and a panel is ~4.5 feet high, by
16 feet long. So when bent I have a hoop house that is 6 feet tall, 8 feet
wide, and 22.5 feet long. So you can adjust the length based on how many
panels you use. I think the chicken coop has four panels.
@hannanasje1987 yeah u can’t keep rabbits together in a big pen, especially
both sexes together, they must not know that the males will overbreed the
females, and other rabbits will sometimes kill other rabbits babies, they
must be seperate especially with babies, and always seperated from males,
except when time to breed. You have a very nice setup, i will post some
videos of my stuff one day.
@RedeemingDogs — Yes, I totally understand that. When I first made my
comment, I don’t think I had seen the videos where your kids are walking
around. With small children, I can understand how roosters just aren’t a
good idea (it makes sense as far as noise with neighbors too). I just wrote
that because roosters are amazing (as long as you have a situation where
you can keep it)… Anyway, I hope your chickens and rabbits are doing
well^^
@samuelwaynefoleyjr – Rabbits are in individual cages suspended 2 1/2 feet
off the ground, tarps underneath collect rabbit poop and pee.