My family raised and ate (and sold; 67 during one Easter season!) rabbits for many years, but, now that the kids have grown and flown, I want to keep the building but sell the rabbit-related contents (this excludes the electrical fixtures, etc.!-) "lock, stock, and barrel".   The following pictures document those contents and some cage-construction details.   My price is stated at the end.

QUICK OVERVIEW:   My "17-hole rabbitry" building is about 11 feet wide, 16 feet long, and 8 feet high with 4x8 sheets of plywood that open for ventilation on the sides, a center aisle with a door at each end, and, on each side of the aisle, lower and upper "banks" of cages (think "condominiums") separated by dropping boards:
  * lower bank of 5 cages on the east side SOLD!
  * upper bank of 5 cages on the east side SOLD!
  * lower bank of 5 cages on the west side GIVEN AWAY!
  * upper bank of 2 cages on the west side GIVEN AWAY!
  * plus a table/workbench in place of the 3 "missing" upper cages on the west side.
Several other cages (stored elsewhere) are not for sale.


Looking at the north end with everything "battened down" for winter.

Looking at the north end again, the door is still closed but the west "flaps" are both open   (When the sides are open, a woven-wire fence fastened to the pole-shed posts kept stray critters out -- a lesson learned after a sad experience when dogs crawled in and killed all the rabbits in the lower level of cages!)

Looking at the west side with both flaps open; the concrete cylinders around the bottom of the shed kept "critters" from digging under the walls.   (Obviously I need to shovel a little more dirt around the bottom.)

Looking at the west side with both flaps closed

Looking at the SW corner; a falling tree limb bent the "porch roof" above the south door but, fortunately, didn't break any glass!

Looking at the SE corner; several years ago, another tree limb destroyed both east flaps, so I just boarded over the opening, but the hinges are still there and someday I'll replace the flaps.   I once had a glass-covered solar-collector just below the right-hand window; on sunny days, the ice in frozen water-crocks would melt enough that the ice "cubes" would fall out.

Looking directly at the boarded-up east side (Sigh; more dirt needs to be shoveled!)

Looking at the NE corner; I need to clean the gutter (again)!   Although the building is wired for electricity, a falling limb broke the incoming wires (which you can see hanging straight down at the corner of the building), so I now just used the building as a storage shed.

Standing just outside the north door looking south, with an open side "flap" just visible on the far right

Standing just inside the north door still looking south; the hardware cloth across the bottom of the door opening was to keep the occasional rabbit which escaped its cage from escaping any farther.

Cage banks on the east wall with sloping metal-covered dropping board between them and some "bottom boards" (see later picture) stored on top

Cages on the west wall with nest boxes (see later picture) and some extra cage-making material stored on top; note the cage-record card on the screened-bottom metal feeder.

Close-up of two cage-record cards on a screened-bottom metal feeder

Standing just inside the south door looking north

The folded-closed "desk" fastened to the inside of the north door stored long-term rabbit-production records; short-term records were kept on cards clipped onto the feeders on each cage.

Looking at the open "desk" on the backside of the north door; it was a very handy little "desk"!

Shelf for a clock radio (so I could listen while "doing chores") above the north door

Mouse- and rat-proof medicine cabinet above the south door

As I noted above, the building is wired for electricity but the electricity isn't currently connected.

Workbench/feed-storage area, with the previously-mentioned protective fence just visible; stuff on top is explained next

Ceramic feed bowls (17 of them)

Ceramic water crocks (17 of them)

Winter water cans (18 of them; quickly thaw-able in a bucket of hot water -- we installed a hot-water faucet outside our house specifically for watering animals during the winter)

Metal hang-on-cage-wall waterers (3 of them)

Hang-on-cage-wall screened-bottom feeders (16 of them; a few need some minor repair)

Creep feeders (6 of them; babies eat but mommies can't get in)

Spring scale to weigh rabbits or feed or whatever

High- and low-sided summer-mode solid-bottom nest boxes

Inverting a high-sided solid-bottom nest box (4 of them) and adding a bottom board converted it into a winter-mode nest box.   Even though my rabbitry was unheated, I raises bunnies year round; KSU's Vet College even bought them from me during the winter when no one else could supply them!

Screened-bottom nest box (6 of them; tilted so screen would show); when filled with straw, they also made pretty-good winter-mode nest boxes

Extra wire to repair and/or modify cages; a can of several hundred wire clips is also included

Hole chewed by @#$%! squirrels in the east wall above the southeastern-most cage.   I once read a book "Never Done: A History of American Housework", and just as a woman's work is never done, neither is a farmer's or rancher's work.   (Is raising rabbits "ranching"?)

CAGE DETAILS

Each cage is 36" wide, 30" deep, and 18" high (the rear 9 inches of the bottom cages are only 10 inches high to allow for dropping-board slope) and has a door and an opening for a metal screened-bottom feeder.   I once experimented with below-the-floor bunny nests (bunnies could fall in instead of falling out of nest boxes!), so some cages also have a (now covered) floor cutout.   Each pair of adjacent cages has a connecting door so does with large litters could have more room (I chose my replacement does for large litters, and after many years of selective breeding, they routinely bore and reared over 12 young even though female rabbits have only 8 "spigots"!)   I usually kept two to three bucks in the three south-end cages and seven does in the remaining seven double-cages.

I want $600, and, based on Internet prices for ceramic feed bowls and water crocks, metal feeders, 24" x 24" hutches, creep feeders, etc. from www.orschelnfarmhome.com, www.bassequipment.com, and others, plus all the "extras" shown above, I believe my price is reasonable.

I'll be glad to answer any questions you might have and, if you buy the stuff, I'll help remove the contents from inside the shed and load them onto your long vehicle.   (Remember, while they're not particularly heavy, three of the cage "banks" are about 15 feet long!)
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