84 CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF RABBITS 
must be kept in mind, if you are to get a good 
hutch. Further than that, the size of space re- 
quired for rabbits should be kept in mind so as 
not to make them too small. 
A nursing doe should have nine or ten square 
feet of floor space for herself and litter. You 
will find that a mature buck requires the same 
space because he is generally more active than 
the young does. So it is a good plan to build 
all hutches the same size and have them uni- 
form in appearance while about it. 
Younger stock will not require as much 
space, and they will not need more space until 
the sexes need separating. As a rule a litter 
can be kept in the hutch in which they were 
born until they are anyway four months of age. 
The young bucks will not reach fighting age 
until five months of age and some breeds even 
later than that. So there is no need of making 
smaller hutches than the standard size required 
for the mature animals, as it is only a waste of 
material and time. 
Where one is pressed for time, an hour or two 
