6o PRACTICAL RABBIT KEEPING 



making three tiers. This plan saves labor as 

 well as space, yet it has its disadvantages. The 

 fundamental essential in the rearing of rabbits 

 is cleanliness, and it is more difficult to attain 

 complete sanitation when the hutches are 

 stacked than when each hutch stands by itself. 

 A method which has been adopted by some 



FIG. 4. 



successful breeders is to have each hutch con- 

 structed with a sloping roof, a block being so 

 placed as to elevate the floors of the upper 

 hutches to the proper height. Then the liq- 

 uids coming through the floors of the hutches 

 are drained away instead of soaking through 

 into the hutch beneath. It is desirable to have 

 the roof of each hutch covered with heavy 

 roofing paper, or better still, with tin. 



So-called self-cleaning hutches are often 



