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posed to open air hutches place their sick rabbits out- 

 doors. 



One of the greatest drawbacks to the indoor rab- 

 bitry is poor ventilation, bad roofs and sides. The 

 roof should be at least four feet above the top of the 

 upper row of hutches, and should consist of a layer of 

 boards, then tar paper, felt, or similar material, and the 

 extreme outside should be of metal, slate or any serv- 

 iceable material. The sides should be built in the 

 same manner, with a small space between the outside 

 of the hutch and the first inside siding, then a row 

 of paper should come next and another layer of 

 matched siding on the outside, then plenty of over- 

 head ventilation, large clean hutches, with plenty of 

 slope to drain the wet away from your hutches, and 

 plenty of sawdust and straw, both winter and summer, 

 will help make the indoor rabbitries sanitary, but if 

 you have not such conditions, your stock will have 

 colds and later snuffles, in spite of anything you do. 

 The writer, with over twenty years' experience raising 

 stock in all kinds of hutches and conditions, is firmly 

 convinced the only healthful and successful way to 

 raise Belgian hares is in the open hutches, which are 

 fully described elsewhere. 



Hutches should be made four to five feet long by 

 twenty-four inches wide and twenty-four inches high, 

 with a nesting box about twenty-four inches square, 

 having a small hole in one end about three inches 

 above the bottom of the box to keep the young from 

 crawling out the first few days. A small shelf on one 

 side of the hutch will permit the doe to get away from 

 the youngsters to rest. 



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