Breeding rabbits is a rather laborious and laborious process. In addition to creating favorable conditions for animals, it is worth taking care of their convenient feeding. In our article we will tell how to make a sennik for rabbits with your own hands.
The benefits of sennik
For each type of feed you need to build their own devices. Sennik is not only a very convenient design, but also has a lot of other advantages:
- there will be a special place for food, and animals will know where to get it;
- improved animal hygiene, as cleanliness will be maintained in the nursery;
- sennik allows you to balance the diet and make it more useful;
- hay will be in one place, which will save space in the cage for animals;
- All animals will be able to eat in the same conditions, on equal terms.
Important! When choosing a mesh for a sennik, it is not necessary to choose material with small holes, since rabbits will have difficulty grabbing food. The optimum size of the hole is 25x25 mm.
Hay feeder must be present in the cages with rabbits. Today there are a variety of designs. If you do not have time, you can look at a specialty store and purchase ready-made nurseries. However, having made a sennik with your own hands, you can save a lot and take into account all the nuances of the design.
Popular species
There are several types of feeders, but most often there are external and internal senni. Consider each one of them.
External
External nurseries for hay should be attached to the part of the cage in which you plan to place a pallet for food. Feeding trough is usually represented by a box, bottom and three wooden or metal walls. For the manufacture of the fourth wall is used coarse mesh. The cover can be attached with hinges. Sometimes there are completely open designs. The choice of the type of structure depends on whether the nursery is located - indoors or outdoors. If the cage is adjacent to the drinking bowl, the feeder is located on the other side.
The most popular rabbits are the Rex, White Giant, Butterfly, Flandre and Marder rabbits.
Internal
If the cage design does not allow connecting the feeder from the outside, an inner senic for hay comes to the rescue.
Did you know? In the wild, the rabbit lives for about 1 year, and with proper care, its lifespan increases to 12 years.In appearance, it practically does not differ from the outside, except that the fixation takes place on the inner side of the cage, which significantly complicates the maintenance of the entire structure.
How to make a sennik with your own hands
Self-made nursery for rabbits will not only allow you to save on the purchase of the finished structure, but also will last much longer, since they will be made “for yourself”. The construction of the structure with his own hands does not take you much time. Let's try to figure out what is needed for construction.
Materials and tools
To build a rabbit feeder, you will need the following materials and tools:
- metal grid;
- reinforced film;
- wooden bars;
- self-tapping screws;
- corners;
- roulette;
- jigsaw;
- screwdriver;
- stapler
Important! Before proceeding with the construction of the feeder, it is recommended to draw a drawing of a future design in order to cut out the necessary components in accordance with the correct dimensions. Ideally, the nursery should be made simultaneously with the construction of the cell.In addition to these, you may need additional tools, so you should carefully consider what you need, even before starting to work.
Manufacturing process
We offer you to familiarize yourself with the step-by-step instructions for making sennik:
- It is necessary to take a wooden bar 3x5 cm and cut 4 bars of 25 cm each and 2 by 161 cm each.
- Then with the help of the corners and screws to fasten them to the cage.
- After that, 2 strips are taken along the length of the cage and are attached to the metal grid with the help of a stapler.
- We fasten one bar directly to the cage, and fix the second one to the installed vertical bars so that the grid with the cell forms an angle of approximately 45 °.
- In the same way, senniks are installed on all tiers of the cell.
- One end of the structure is closed with a metal grid.
- With the help of the reinforced film we hang the front part and one end of the sennik. It will protect the hay from moisture and create a shadow. In the autumn and winter, it will protect from the wind.
Did you know? In the Guinness Book of Records, the rabbit with the longest ears is noted - their length is 80 cm.
After reading our article, you learned how to make your own rabbit feeders for hay. Now you can easily build the same design for your pets.
