I'd never leave a hutch or litter tray longer than a week. It takes less than 24 hours for a fly to lay eggs and those eggs hatch into maggots, if the hutch/litter tray isn't changed often enough you'll never even know theres maggots making a home in the pile of poo in the corner until your rabbit starts being eaten alive. Not only that rabbits are clean animals and like to live in a clean house just like us. Think about it how long would you leave the toilet without flushing it? The poo corner is bunnies toilet and they don't like to sit on a dirty toilet anymore than we would.

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Well said Kammie - we just have to put ourselves in their paws really don't we! x

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I think I'm going to go with a minimum of 2 times a week and just do it as I think it needs doing. She's not litter trained yet and she's going over the whole cage, the cage is 3ft by 2ft but she has a really long run around the house for min 3 hours and max of 6. She goes in her cage most of the time but has left a few poos around the house which I have to clean. I'd love to let her go in the garden but I am worried about cats and I don't think our leanto is suitable, she would have to be supervised.

heheh!!!

i have 5, and the corner that they do there toilets in get taken out daily, swept and sprayed with cleaner then replaced with the older stuff beding and then new stuff gets put in every 2 / 3 days and keeps on rotation.

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my trays get emptied daily, the grass and wendy house get swept daily if theres any stray poos. It takes only a min. They get disinfected at least weekly.

overall its a lot less time than I would be spending if I left it to fester all week. Also stale poo attracts flies which can lead to flystirke.

putting some lino in the hutch makes things a lot easier too

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2 of my 4 are on litter trays so their trays a cleaned daily! and then a full hutch clean out once every 2 weeks unless they need a clean out, and the other 2 are cleaned out twice a week but i clean out there mess areas as and when needed x

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My Beautiful Animals!

8 Cats- Jesse,Flossey,Tabatha,Sox,Milo<Mr Tigs,Ruby and Lola
4 Syrian Hamsters- Muesli,Fudge,Lumpy and Missy
7 Rabbits- Crunchie, Rolo, Smartie and Albert,Matilda, Gracie and Daisy!
2 Chickens- Florence and Betty
2 Dogs- Poppy and Lily (choc labs)
7 Guinea Pigs-Flo,Lottie, Ediie,Eviie,Millie,Maisie and Oscar

When I had the outside hutch I did a full clean once a week but I cleaned the pee corners each night or so (to be fair sometimes I forgot -_-') But when Rini hit maturity, she started peeing like crazy and the hutch wouldnt even stay clean for a short while so I had to clean it like crazy each day :|
Now she's indoors, I clean her litter tray every night and put any poo she's scattered onto her fleece or whatever, back into her tray. But she's on fleece and is litter trained so I dont have a specific time when I change her blankets. I just change it when it gets too covered in her fur or when my room needs a hoover (as I put her in the bathroom to change her cage and I take this opportunity to hoover my bedroom).