Bunny and Chicken Containment Devices

[inulro]

Stolen from moral_vacuum:

http://www.omlet.co.uk/

I thought the bunny version was cute till I saw the price. Our bunnies live indoors and run free range in our hermetically sealed back yard, so it wouldn't be anything other than a really expensive toy they'd probably ignore.

The chicken version is cool too, but we really can't have chickens. We were chicken wrangling again this morning, but this time I got four eggs in compensation. In the process, she ate a slug. Which I thought was a really cool solution to our slug problem, until Jason realized that if she eats slugs, she'd probably eat our frogs too, and we like our teeny little frogs.

Comments

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Cute, but not a good design IMHO.

It's plastic. So it will fail after a few years of UV exposure and it's unrepairable. It's also chewable (they're rabbits - everything is chewable) yet the one-piece moulding would be impossibel to repair and spares will be expensive.

Wood is a still a far better choice for hutches.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that. My indoor cage is plastic, because plastic is superior from the cleaning-out point of view (whoever thought rabbit urine and wood was a good combo clearly never kept rabbits indoors), but I was also not convinced about the ability of plastic to stand up to the elements. In my experience, rabbits aren't that bothered about chewing on plastic, but if they don't have anything else to chew on, who knows.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Rabbit pee is fine on wood, you just need to choose your wood. Softwood is cheap though, so the pee-absorbency problem doesn't get factored in.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

sarah_mum suggested that you could make one of these gadgets from an iMac case.