Soon

All three of the does are nesting today. Doe #2 looks miserable. We should have babies soon!

I thought I would explain my "emergency nestboxes" a bit... I was supposed to have some wooden ones built before the girls were due, but that didn't get done, so I had to do some quick thinking! The metal nestboxes are worth their weight in gold, but they're also quite expensive ($25 each), so I wanted to see about making some this time around. Plastic buckets weren't exactly in my radar of thought, but they work right swell! ;)

So, if you're getting into rabbits, and you're trying to keep costs as low as possible, try this scheme!

First, you need a 12 quart plastic bucket like this one:

Next, drill holes into it. You'll notice that in each corner I have two holes next to each other. These are for wiring/zip tying the box to the floor. The holes in the middle are for drainage. 

Once that's done, zip tie it to the wire floor! I ran each zip tie up through the bottom, and then back down, so that the floor of the box would remain smooth. 

That's it! All total, these cost about $3 to make. I just scrounged buckets that were around the house and barn, so this was a ridiculously cheap and fast nestbox. I don't know if I would use these as permanent nestboxes, but for a temporary fix, they're great. :)