Rabbit-breeding is troublesome and costly occupation, however, if you approach this case creatively and with the mind, you can significantly ease your life and save a lot of money. For example, why not make drinkers and feeders for rabbits with your own hands?
Drops
Rabbits constantly need clean water. In the summer, they can receive liquid from fresh juicy vegetables and fruits, but without a drinking bowl still can not do. If you have made a rabbit yourself, then make a drinking bowl for rabbits will not be much difficulty. The main problem is to decide on the type of design.
It is necessary to choose the type of drinking bowl with the materials of which it is made. So, plastic products will not last long, because the rabbits are crooked. If you pour water into ordinary tin cans from under canned, it will be quickly more, polluted, and it will be necessary to change it more often than usual.
Automatic
On large farms for rabbits, complex automatic drinkers are usually put in the form of large stainless steel tanks. They pour water, and it enters through the hose to the distribution capacity with floats and the floss system (both in the toilet bowls). From the distribution capacity, the water tube highway, which is suitable individually for each cell is departed. Small cups are attributed to the ends of the tubes, from which animals drink. As water descends, the liquid from the main tank automatically replenishes the level in the cups, ensuring the constant availability of drinking in each cell. So, when there is too little liquid in the glass, the float system is triggered in the camshaft, the valve opens, and the drinkers are re-filled with fresh water. Make a similar drink for rabbits with your own hands is quite difficult, so it is better to buy it in the appropriate store.
Nipple
Nipple diligets for rabbits are comfortable and practical. If rabbits can spill water from glasses, then when using nipples, it is excluded. The only but significant lack of such structures is at low temperatures in winter, the liquid in the nipples quickly freezes. In addition, the volume of nipple cream is rather small, so you have to constantly fill fresh water (up to several times a day). Despite these inconveniences, many rabbits prefer such drinkers, because the water in them is constantly clean and fresh, and therefore rabbits will be healthy and well-groomed.
Handicraft
Handicraft drinkers for rabbits are any containers that are not sorry to put into the cage. It can be aluminum bowls, banks, trays, etc. Of course, when using such dripping, it should be borne in mind that rabbits can blast the water, turn the bowl, to sketch the hay and dirt. But if it is not possible to buy or make a more reliable design, then the maximum that can be done is to fix the jar on the wall of the cell using a wire.
Production of smoking
Drinking a bottle
If you do not know from what and how to make drinking for rabbits, take advantage of the proven way and make it from a conventional plastic bottle.
Progress:
- Thorough wash from within a semi-liter plastic bottle.
- In the middle, make a circular hole with a diameter of a little more rabbit head.
- Secure the bottle with the wire in a horizontal position so that the hole "looked" up at an angle of 40-45 degrees from the floor surface in the cell.
Take the water in such a drinking it will have to be quite often, and it will not be quite comfortable, but this method is the fastest, simple and economical. The service life will be directly dependent on the nature of your pets. They shrug them in any case, the question is only in time. Young rabbits will cope with such a structure for one and a half or two weeks. Adults usually do not manifest much interest in plastic, so the rider can serve for several months. In any case, it is recommended to change the bottle once a month, and if algae appeared in it ("bloomed" water), then immediately.
Vacuum drinker
Make a vacuum driver either will not be much difficulty. Remember physics lessons in high school and proceed to work!
Progress:
- Deep bowl fasten the wire to the wall of the cell so that rabbits could not flip it.
- In a plastic bottle of one and a half or two liters, type the water, close the cover and fast careful movement turn it upside down so that the neck does not take a little to the bottom of the bowl.
- Lock the bottle in this position using wire.
- Start gradually unscrew the lid so that part of the water moves into a bowl. The drilling will be filled with 2/3 and as descending will be replenished from the bottle exactly to the same level.
Large drink
If you want to build a big drink at once for several individuals, go to the store and buy a herring in a wide tin can. The herring herself will not need, but the bank is perfect for the creation of the "collective" drinker!
Progress:
- Fasten the tin pallet from under herring in the cell.
- At the bottom to put two identical brus of galvanized iron or stainless steel.
- In the three-liter bank, type water.
- Sharply flip the jar into the drink and install it with a neck on the bars.
- Secure the bank with wire.
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Cordushki
If you can figure it out at any time, then the drawings of the feeders for rabbits should be prepared at the construction stage of the cell itself. If you have bunk cells, you need to install built-in feeders, which can be adapted to the features of the "Apartments".
Types of feeders
Also, the type of feeders depends on what you will sweep your fluffy pets.
So, the feeders for rabbits can be divided into three types:
- senniki is the most common type that is needed if you want to grow healthy, large and fluffy ras. The hay is an essential product in the diet of rabbits, because it helps absorb useful substances and digest food. Canniki is better to do embedded. Of course, you can simply throw dry herbs on the floor of the cell, but so you only integrate the dirt and doomed yourself to endless cleaning;
- for feed-feed - nuts need rabbits for rapid growth and enrichment with vitamins and minerals in winter, when there are no fresh fruits and vegetables. Many farmers prefer to make bunker feeders for rabbits, using galvanized iron sheets for this, plastic pipes or ordinary iron jars. The only condition is to securely attach the feeder to the cage;
- the feeder for tops and vegetable cleaning can be made of any material, even from plastic. The main problem is to provide convenient removal of cleaning and washing feeders. It must be kept constantly clean, otherwise parasites can start in it, which will definitely do not benefit your pet.
How to make sennik
The Sennik is best done along the construction of the cell itself. This is a very convenient thing that can save you from problems in winter. You can put in it the necessary amount of grass and a week, or even two do not even worry about the fact that rabbits are missing food. Of course, if you equip the cells with the corresponding "long-playing" drips.
So, what you need to know about the construction of the Sennik. First of all, it should be securely attached to the side wall of the cell with a light side. During the construction, leave a slot in the entire width of the wall in 8-10 instantimeters from the floor.
The delicate of the Sennika reminds Nasry, from which domestic cattle is fed. The feeder must enter the cells through the slot at a slight angle, so that the animals it is easier to get feed. Insert and fix it better with a wire with a diameter of 5-7 mm.
You can also make a feeder for hay in the form of a removable corner frame. It will be more convenient if its sizes will coincide with the sides of the side wall of the cell to which it will be attached. But if you do this for some reason it does not work, nothing terrible.
Required tools and materials:
- plywood (sheets);
- roulette;
- selflessness (nails);
- hoven (saw).
Progress:
- On the sheet of plywood, make markup, according to the side wall parameters of the cell or the desired dimensions of the future feeder.
- Drink two identical sidewalls.
- From above, draw the square, the side of which is equal to the segment of the part that will connect the delicate and the cell.
- Make 5x2 cm feeds long.
- Place the upper groove in the appropriate cell angle and mark the upper border. To understand where the upper edge of the degree will be located, you can slide a little sidewall.
- Drink the unnecessary part of the cell wall.
- Lift the design to the stop and the upper groove insert into the angle, pushing it forward and down.
- To enhance the design, you can fasten to the straight edge of the plywood strip 2 cm wide.
- Connect the top of the bar, bonding it with self-draws.
- MDF is suitable for the back, the lattice from the old refrigerator or a galvanized sheet leaf. The main thing is to cut the tin so that you can slightly adjust its edges. This will make it easy to attach it to the nursery and do not damage your hands.