Since I made these blogs in 2009 much has happened with our Astrex Rabbits Curly Wavy Bunnies. We are on the verge of moving our larger property and beginning New Barns with STALLS for many of our Curly Rabbits. This will be a welcome new change and make care/ maintenance and upkeep in general much easier. We are going to make "ground stalls" similar to how show horses are kept but but smaller, with the average size per stall being 3' wide x 6' long for one rabbit. Some stalls will be 4' x 8' and some will be 6' x 12' and house several dry does that get along well together or either a mother or two, with their baby buns. Through the years we have found that ground stalls (inside a roofed barn and kept DRY, bedded with clean fresh pine shavings) WORK so well for our Astrex Rabbits.
In general our Curly Wavy Bunnies are much more active than the average caged rabbit. Most are not kept in the "average" rabbit cage. All our rabbits are super intelligent, understanding on a level I'd compare to a small child. This alone, makes the need for giving them more living space, toys and an actual "room" with tunnels, steps, etc to play nearly a neccessity.
We want the day to come in the near future where NONE of our Astrex Rabbits, or Curl Carriers must live a "normal" rabbit cage. We also utilize hutches a great deal of the time, making several ourselves out of wooden "boxes" with wire around the tops / a roof and large doors. This way we can bed them with wood shavings, sorta like a "mini stall" until we can have larger stalls for our animals.
Rett and the Gang / AstrexRabbits@gmail.com
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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