MAN \<;I:MI:.\ r OF MAKKIIT UAIJBITS. 



packing-cases of every size and shape. The other systems of housing are the battery, 

 either with or without shed shelter, the movable or colony hutch, and the pen 

 method. 



With the hutch system the main essentials are well-lighted, clean, draught- and 

 IM in-proof hutches of sufficient height, length, and width, easy to clean, and, Justly, 

 vermin-proof. Rabbits kept in undersized hutches are much harder to keep in 

 condition than those housed more favourably. The dimensions recommended are: 

 Length, from 5 to G feet; height, 2 feet; width. 2 feet. After allowing for space 

 occupied by the nest there is still room for the rabbits to exercise. 



The battery, or tier, system is highly recommended by those using them. It is 

 labour-saving, takes up little room, and is economical to build. They can be placed 

 in a shed or outdoors. An illustration of this type is given below. 



A battery of hutchos. Each story is removable, as shown In photo. 

 Nests are at each end and there Is a partition through centre. 



The movable hutch for both breeding does and for young growing stock, is to 

 le recommended where one has a sufficient area of land to allow of constant removal 

 of the hutch. This hutch has a wire run attached, and therefore permits of the 

 rabbits getting more exercise than when housed in stationary quarters. This system 

 'an not be operated all the year round, except in those sections where there is little 

 frost or snowfall. 



The pen method is. in the writer's opinion, all things considered, the best system 

 of housing. A disused wood-shed, outhouse, or fowl-house can be utilized for this 

 purpose. The stock are housed in medium-sized hutches placed around the walls 

 of shed, and each rabbit allowed out on the floor of the shed for exercise at stated 

 intervals. The floor needs to be littered and kept reasonably clean. Where the 

 animals are housed on the Moor-level, means must be taken to prevent the loose one 

 fighting through hutch-wire. 



The hutches should be cleaned regularly and thoroughly. The common diseases 

 >f rabbits are practically all due to lack of cleanliness and sanitation. 



