These photos were taken at night so some details may not be visible. If anyone needs a more detailed photo just let me know and we'll see what I can do.



This first setup is the second one I built. I put more time into it trying to make it a nicer looking setup than my first one.











This setup has 5 cages and is 12ft long x 3ft wide and 2 1/2ft high in the front (actual cage dimension) with a gradual slope towards the back. The top is painted plywood and the frame is made from 2 x 4s. The doors are made of ripped 2 x 4s. 1/2" x 1" wire on the floor, 1/2" x 1/2" wire (hardware cloth) on the doors & between cages (dividers), and 1" chicken wire on sides and back. Including the legs, the front of the cage stands aprox. 5ft tall with the back aprox. 6 inches less.







Close-up of doors.





This next setup is the first one I built. Twas a whole lot simpler to build and just as effective as the second one. If I had to build another rabbit cage tomorrow I'd build it just like this one, except I was use 1/2" x 1" wire for floor in place of the 1/2" hardware cloth I used on this one.







As you can see I've got my all-wire cages covered with tin & sitting on top of it. This setup is made from landscape timbers & 2 x 4s with 1/2" hardware cloth all throughout.



It's 10ft long x 3ft wide 2 1/2ft high (actual cage dimension). Including the legs it stands aprox. 5ft tall.







The doors are pieces of hardware cloth cut larger than the openings and secured with j-clips at the bottom. I bought some weak springs and stretched them out a bit and connected them to a hook and that's used to fasten the doors as shown.



Actually, I took some dog fencing I had laying around and fastened the hardware cloth to it for a stronger, less flexible door panel but if the wire used for doors overlaps the opening enough it shouldn't be needed. My rabbits never push on the wire doors and most won't even try to get out if the doors are left open. My kids inadvertently have shown me that a few times.



One thing to keep in mind when designing/building is the widths of the wire you'll be using. The hardware cloth and the 1/2" x 1" wire I used came in 3ft widths, thus the reason I built 3ft wide cages. On the cage in the last 2 pics I cut off & threw away 6 inches x 26ft of wire on the sides. I just couldn't bring myself to making the cages 3ft tall, even though I've seen some cages that utilized height by making an accessible upper level.



Hopefully this will at least give someone some useable ideas.



Ya'll have a good one!

HH



PS

This photo series wouldn't be complete without showing my guard turkey. You can see her in the 2nd photo from the top, under the rabbit cage, but here's a better photo. Meet Henrietta.



The kids got too attached to her so she survived Thanksgiving & Christmas.
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Due to political correctness run amuck,

this ol' hillbilly is now referred to as an:

Appalachian American

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