Cages for rabbits Zolotukhin

Well-known breeder Nikolai Zolotukhin, who breed rabbits more than half a century, has developed its own system of rabbits content. Zolotukhin cells have an important advantage: the conditions of the rabbits content of close to nature, animals are less stressed and less ill.

On FORUMHOUSE there are breeders that include rabbits in cages Zolotukhin - given their experience, we We explain how to make such konstrkutsii, submit the required size and cheretezhi, see what the pros and cons

How are Zolotukhin cells

The right thing to explain the device Zolotukhin cells will be starting from the floor. It has no tray, solid floor is made of slate flat and inclined toward the back wall. At the back wall throughout the cell length of the floor is embedded metal mesh width of 10-20 cm. This improvement is due to the peculiarities of rabbits: by Zolotukhin method based on years of observations, almost 100% of the rabbits will urinate on the net. In 70% of the net goes rabbit feces, and only 30% of the rabbits scatter on your room. We suggest you explore the cells drawing for Zolotukhin rabbits.

Many breeders here confuses some time: in normal cells of rabbits live on the layer of manure, which warms them in the winter cold; in Zolotukhinsky all traces of life rabbit roll into the net, and the rabbits in winter in such cells colder.

Member FORUMHOUSE Shadron learned how he comes Zolotukhin: in the cold, he did not clean the rabbit closes hay and slate, and the grid, and removes litter, when the snow begins to melt.

Satisfied with time to experience that rabbits clean animals, and disciplined "walk" on the grid, breeders are thinking about how to go on the net and Zolotukhin generally abolished.

Kaer (Member FORUMHOUSE):

Leave a gap of 2-3cm between the floor and the wall. Mouse - over the net and crawl through, and without a grid or hay, or anything down will not get clogged. Indeed, many make a winter version, without mesh, the gap closed from drafts removable rack.

Classic cages for rabbits Zolotukhin three-story, design consists of six cells, two on each tier. Tiers are terraces: second recedes from the first grid on the floor width, the third width on the grid in the floor retreats from the second.

The rear wall of the lower two storeys leaned forward on the third floor of the slope of the wall is not necessary.

Manger also unusual: it is inserted directly into the door and secured with two nails, hinges. The meaning of this improvement: you can pour the food and clean the feeder, knocking her to him, without opening the door.

All litter in the end is always dry, and cleaning is reduced to a comfortable floor-sweeping.

What made Zolotukhin cells

True, the right cells Zolotukhin save not only the place in the rabbitryBut money breeder. We need only inexpensive materials:

• Wood (sticks and board) for the frame, partitions and doors frames.
• Welded wire mesh for the rear parts of the floor and doors.
• Flat sheets of slate floor (and at the same time - for the lower tier of the ceiling).
• Polycarbonate for the rear wall.
• Those wooden parts of cells that rabbits can chew, obbivat sheet iron.

Comment our user vjik tula:

vjik tula (Member FORUMHOUSE):

All sloping rear wall of the first and second tiers are made of plastic panels, which typically trim bathrooms (left of the repair in apartment). Result: two years - all ideally! The panels used are not the cheapest, but not expensive, the difference in the thickness of the plastic is.

The optimum size of the cell tier for Zolotukhin rabbits:

• Width - 2 m.
• Height - 1.5 meters.
• Depth - 70-80 cm.
• slope of the floor to the rear wall - 5-7 cm.
• mesh width in the floor near the back wall - 15-20 cm.
• door size - 40 x 40 cm.

Each tier is divided by a partition in half to form two cells.

How to make liquor

Another simplification, improvement Zolotukhinsky design: it lacks a stationary liquor. Summer rabbit makes a nest right in the manger, and a place for kindling simply separated from the rest of the cells of the board width of 20 cm. Once the rabbits grow, simply remove the board. But this is - summer version.

In winter, the cell is placed on a mandatory basis the special "Hole", a box, an extended depth. Details are joined by nails or screws.
The box has the following dimensions:

• The floor and ceiling - 40 × 40 × 30 cm or 30 cm.
• The height of the front wall - 16 cm.
• The height of the rear wall - 26-27 cm.
• The height of the entry openings - 15 cm.

As we can see, the rear wall is much higher than the front, for the rabbit is a device comfortable, it feels safe. Before kindling the rabbit hole filled with hay and then buries it in rabbits, a fortnight hiding them from prying eyes.

vjik tula:

From what I've seen, Zolotukhin simply inserts the high board into the cell, thereby divides it into two parts (Dead - covered on three sides with plywood, and the open - where the mesh door with hopper feeders and Senik). And the fact that you can still use the liquor in the form of holes - plus his system.

Mokin (Member FORUMHOUSE):

The mother liquor can be made of plywood, and it is understandable rabbits.

The door, which is planned to install the liquor, is not out of the grid, and is completely made of wood - to the day was not too much light, as well as to protect against drafts and cold. The front wall is equipped on the outside rim width of about 10 centimeters - this is a simple device has saved many rabbits from falling out.

How to make a bird feeder

The method of manufacture is clear from the following drawing.

As we have said, the feeder cells Zolotukhin inserted into the door frame. Making bird feeders is easy. It should occupy 2/3 of the width of the door and the outer wall of the inner trough twice. The trough is mounted to the door at an angle of 35 degrees or more, and thus the side wall - is inverted triangles. At the top of both side walls make holes through which the feeder is attached to the door. Grid front wall is placed inside the trough (not fully remain in the lumen of 2-3 cm), and thus without opening the door, the feeder can be tilted, clean, pour it into forage.

Mslit (Member FORUMHOUSE):

Masters under him, the main thing that was not cramped, and follow the principle of continuous floor with a symbolic slope to the back wall, where the mesh strip of 15-20 cm and 15-20 mm cell.

Design of Nikolai Zolotukhin easy to manufacture and inexpensive. The experience of breeders of our portal confirms that they allow you to organize the optimal ability to live rabbits and reduce trudozotraty breeder.

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