Today as a pet you can meet a variety of animals. Along with cats, people often breed rabbits. It is clear that feeding one pet is an interesting entertainment for a child. But when it comes to the cultivation of animals for sale, then the site installs large cells and feed them constantly quite troublesome. In this case, you can use simple and convenient feeders for rabbits . The price for such an addition to the enclosure is sometimes high. Homemade feeders for rabbits do not differ much from ready-made ones, but they can be made from waste material.
How to make a feeder for rabbits?
These cute fuzzies are quite voracious and they need to be fed constantly. Feeders and drinking bowls for rabbits are sold in pet stores, but the prices for them sometimes bite. To solve this problem, you can build feeders for bunker-type rabbits with your own hands. For work we will need:
- a large metal can;
- angular cutting machine for metal;
- drill.
Now consider a simple way how to make a feeder for rabbits.
- The metal jar is cleaned of the remaining contents and dried.
- Cut off a portion of the tin can to the level where the ribbed surface ends. We leave exactly half.
- The front part is cut off.
- With the help of pliers bend the edges of the jar to avoid injuries from sharp edges.
- Check to the touch whether the feeding trough is safe for the animal.
- That part of the tin can, which was cut off earlier, is leveled.
- In the bottom of the jar we drill a lot of holes. Their diameter should be large enough to allow the feed to spill out.
- The edges of the cut off part are also bent with the help of pliers.
- Now we collect the construction. The arrangement of feeders for rabbits of this type is very simple: a flat part with screws or nuts with bolts is attached to the base. Rivets are also suitable.
- It remains only to screw the feeder to the wall of the cage and pour in food.
- The feeder is ready!
Feeders for hay rabbits
Rabbits constantly need to chew dry grass. Provide constant access is possible with the help of special feeders. To make similar self-made feeding troughs for rabbits can be made from mesh boxes. In such a bird market, chicks are often sold. It's enough just to cut the wire and remove the inner part, making the box narrower.
If you do not have chicken and buy such cells specifically is not advisable, you will have to make a feeder in a different way. You can make a similar device from scratch. What you need:
- a grid with sufficiently small cells;
- metal staples;
- nippers;
- Plastic clamps (they are often used to fix the wires) to connect the walls between each other.
Now let's look at a simple instruction how to make a feeder for rabbits from all these materials.
- It is best to take a grid with cells about 1x1 cm.
- Cutters cut out the parts of the feeder with pliers. Their number and layout are shown in the drawing.
- When all parts are cut, you can start assembling.
- We fix the walls of the feeder with plastic clips.
- Be sure to ensure that no sticky ends of the wire remain, the animal can be injured about them.
- From the usual clip or piece of wire we bend the staples. With their help, the ready feeder will be clinging to the cell walls. You can also cut one square from the mesh and leave a pair of long wire ends.
- Here such simple feeders for rabbits can be made by own hands. They are light enough and easy to operate.
