HOUSES, HUTCHES AND YARDS 63 



square and three inches high, filled with saw- 

 dust and placed in a corner of the hutch, will 

 serve a very useful purpose, and one which 

 the rabbits soon recognize. Then the drop- 

 pings are mostly found in this box, and clean- 

 ing is greatly facilitated. Some rabbit keepers 

 simply smear ji corner of the hutch with a 

 little of the dung, with the result that that 

 corner is usually resorted to by the rabbits 

 with the same result as when a box is used. 



The other fittings of the hutch, however it 

 is constructed, must include a nest box, unless 

 the apartment is to be given over wholly to the 

 use of the bucks or young animals. In the 

 hutch described by the Government agent, the 

 nest box is arranged for in the general design. 

 Oftentimes, though, it consists simply of a 

 smaller box placed in a corner of the hutch. 

 This box should be about eighteen inches 

 square and about a foot high. Of course the 

 size will depend somewhat upon the breed of 

 rabbits which are to use it. The box should 

 have no top, but should be inverted on the 

 floor of the hutch. At one end an opening 

 large enough to admit the doe should be made, 

 but this opening should be placed if possible 



