15/01/2025
❄️🐰WINTER CARE FOR RABBITS🐰❄️
Here our some of our tips for how you can care for your rabbits during the cold winter months:
🐇 Check the roof of the hutch is in good condition and 100% waterproof. Any wooden panels or joints inside the hutch should be dry and show no sign of mould or water stains.
🐇Deep bedding of shavings under their bed of plenty of straw. Straw is warmer than hay because it’s hollow and provides more insulation. Buy good-quality soft straw that’s not spiky or dusty, such as barley straw.
🐇Placing a cardboard box filled with straw in the hutch makes a super-warm and insulated sleeping area and is easy to replace.
🐇The hutch needs to be cleaned out regularly, this is simply so your pets are never sitting on a damp or soggy surface.
🐇When the temperature looks set to drop below zero, your rabbits may need the equivalent of a hot-water bottle for rabbits to help keep them warm at night. A small chew-proof heat pad (e.g. SnuggleSafe) is ideal. If the temperature drops below zero, heat the pad in a microwave exactly as instructed, slip into the little custom-sized pad case to ensure your rabbits don’t get too hot.
🐇 A heat pad under the water dish to prevent the water freezing.
Thinking ahead about the condition of your hutch and run can ensure you have them all set in good time for the colder weather to come.
