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Old 11-08-2010, 01:13 AM
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How often do you clean your rabbits cage?

I'm sure I remember only cleaning out our rabbit before 1ce a week (when I was a kid) I cleaned her out yesterday and her cage is crying out for another clean, is that normal? Should I start litter training now to reduce the mess?
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Old 11-08-2010, 08:38 AM
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I'm sure I remember only cleaning out our rabbit before 1ce a week (when I was a kid) I cleaned her out yesterday and her cage is crying out for another clean, is that normal? Should I start litter training now to reduce the mess?
This may vary from person to person and number of rabbits - I have two rabbits in a very large hutch who spend alot of time in the large run and wider garden. This means less mess in the hutch and more to sweep up in the garden! Plus we have a large litter tray. This means I have one big clean out once to twice a week depending on how much time they've spent in there, but the litter tray is cleaned out everyday.
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Old 11-08-2010, 08:42 AM
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Re: How often do you clean your rabbits cage?

Not had a rabbit for a long long time! but remember I used to do it once a week when I was at school! BUT! my mum used to be on my case all the time then saying once a week is not enough! and I know she used to clean out mid week for me!
Obviously it is very important to keep clean and fly strike is always a concern especially at this time of year!
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Re: How often do you clean your rabbits cage?

I do the litter trays daily and sweep there room daily and there blankets every few days or until bugsy pisses on it
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Re: How often do you clean your rabbits cage?

it depends on the rabbit but you should try to change it once a fortnight. and fluff the hay if it goes flat. it helps them sleep because it helps make it fluffy!
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it depends on the rabbit but you should try to change it once a fortnight. and fluff the hay if it goes flat. it helps them sleep because it helps make it fluffy!
once a fortnight would make the bunny extremely unhappy with there pee and poop. imo
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Re: How often do you clean your rabbits cage?

Litter trays are changed daily and floor swept once a week. Thats both in the shed and in the house.
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Re: How often do you clean your rabbits cage?

I clean the litter trays and hoover daily, and wash their beds and things once a week
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Re: How often do you clean your rabbits cage?

When i had rabbits, going back some years now, they got cleaned out once a week, as they were in a large hutch, but put in a run which was moved around the garden daily, from 8.30am to about 6pm every day. And i just cleaned their run box out everyday, just had some newspaper and a bit of straw in there.
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Re: How often do you clean your rabbits cage?

It needs to be done at least once a week

I have 3 rabbits (bonding) in a decent sized cage atm so i am cleaning out every 2-3days. They are outside from 10am til 8pm in the run and in the hutch/out in there room the rest of the time. I would rather clean them out too much then not enough. I have more then 10+ blankets so i try to change the blankets every other day and i put the smelly blanket in the bunny wash bin, then i wash any blankets in that bin at the end of the week.
The litter tray gets cleaned every evening x
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