HOW TO BUILD THE HUTCHES 85 
evenings can be spent on the work in the home 
basement. The hutches can all be built in sec- 
tions and nailed or screwed together in the 
place they are to occupy in a few minutes’ 
time. 
Do not build a large number of hutches until 
you determine just how many rabbits you 
want to raise and feed. It is better to com- 
mence in a small way and gradually expand 
until you have reached the point desired. Rab- 
bits, you ‘know, are entirely different from 
chickens. You can have five generations in 
one year, so it is easily possible to “make 
haste slowly” and still get on famously in less 
than a year. 
Plan No. 1 shows the largest rabbitry which 
would be practical in the average city back- 
yard. It is 6 by 12 feet in size and was built 
on the open shed style. This rabbitry has 
three tiers of hutches, each 214 feet wide by 
4 feet long. A nest box was built in each 
hutch just one foot wide, so that left an out- 
side hutch still 3 feet long. This allowed three 
