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<blockquote data-quote="Annie" data-source="post: 3194271" data-attributes="member: 42224"><p>I hear ya. Me, too. I finally shrunk down my coveys and put them in 30x36 rabbit pens -- 5 birds to a pen. Their waterers are set on top of old plastic take-out containers so they don't get too much feed, hay and poop in them; their feeders are in cardboard trays so they can still peck through the food they scatter and I can eventually dump it in the chickens' and ducks' feeders; and they have little grass rabbit huts they can get in and on top of.</p><p></p><p>The cardboard tray and grass hut give them places to get off the wire so I have no problems with bumblefoot at all. Plus, since I split them all up I've had no problems with aggression. They act like different birds.</p><p></p><p>There is a tray under the top pens, like with the rabbits. Clean-up takes me about a 45/60 minutes 3 times a week. The bottom row of pens don't have trays. I clean oit under them about once a week -- maybe every couple of it is cold. Blah -- and just dump it in the compost or spread it in the duck pen for them to pick through. It would take less if I didn't stop and play with and pet everyone. Lol Feeding and watering takes a half hour twice a day. I'll go out every couple of hours and check on everyone if it is freezing weather or really, really hot.</p><p></p><p>I need to put 4 more pens together for rabbit grow-outs and 2 more for quail grow-outs this spring. I'd also like to put permanent roofing over the pens. Like a pavillion kind of set-up. I thought about putting them in the shed 24/7/365 but they do fine in any weather as long as they have a windblock in the winter and shade in the summer. Oh and I will throw straw in their pens if it's gonna get really cold. They burrow like little gophers. Lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Annie, post: 3194271, member: 42224"] I hear ya. Me, too. I finally shrunk down my coveys and put them in 30x36 rabbit pens -- 5 birds to a pen. Their waterers are set on top of old plastic take-out containers so they don't get too much feed, hay and poop in them; their feeders are in cardboard trays so they can still peck through the food they scatter and I can eventually dump it in the chickens' and ducks' feeders; and they have little grass rabbit huts they can get in and on top of. The cardboard tray and grass hut give them places to get off the wire so I have no problems with bumblefoot at all. Plus, since I split them all up I've had no problems with aggression. They act like different birds. There is a tray under the top pens, like with the rabbits. Clean-up takes me about a 45/60 minutes 3 times a week. The bottom row of pens don't have trays. I clean oit under them about once a week -- maybe every couple of it is cold. Blah -- and just dump it in the compost or spread it in the duck pen for them to pick through. It would take less if I didn't stop and play with and pet everyone. Lol Feeding and watering takes a half hour twice a day. I'll go out every couple of hours and check on everyone if it is freezing weather or really, really hot. I need to put 4 more pens together for rabbit grow-outs and 2 more for quail grow-outs this spring. I'd also like to put permanent roofing over the pens. Like a pavillion kind of set-up. I thought about putting them in the shed 24/7/365 but they do fine in any weather as long as they have a windblock in the winter and shade in the summer. Oh and I will throw straw in their pens if it's gonna get really cold. They burrow like little gophers. Lol [/QUOTE]
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