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hutch/run combos on grass
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hurricanhoney
Wise Old Thumper
You could lay some paving slabs down. Quite cheap at B & Q
paulinejoe
Mama Doe
We got a roll of glavanised wire mesh from B&Q. It's a 6 x 4 run so we got a length of wood (don't know the exact measurement, but maybe an inch wide?) which we fitted down the middle from back to front of run in order to attach the two lengths of mesh, we couldn't fin a single piece of mesh big enough. I thought the bit of wood sticking up may be a nuisance for them but they're fine and even gnaw on it :roll::lol:. We attached the mesh on with some U-shaped nails. The grass has grown through within weeks and you can hardly see the mesh now.
Debster
Mama Doe
If the run will be in one place permanently, I'd suggest digging up the grass, laying down wire mesh and putting turf back on the top. They'll probably still have a go at digging but they won't get very far :lol: Stops foxes digging in too
This is what we're doing when we move our buns onto grass. Even if your buns aren't diggers, other animals can be - better to be safe than sorry!
serendipity
Warren Scout
Mine do dig a little but we move them quite a lot and they have never got out.
BattleKat
Wise Old Thumper
Imo it's still worth lining the run with wire - like debster said, other animals may dig in.
also you never know when your bun will go for it - we had ours on grass for months with no digging what so ever, then one morning we went out and they were nowhere to be seen - they'd dug a little hole and made a break for it.
Carolinemm
Warren Scout
Yes! one of mine did that too! I had most of a 8x4 run on paving slabs, only 1/2ft or less was off the slabs but I always give them piles of hay so thought they might not notice (silly me I know :roll. Months and months of it all being fine then took just one day and hazel had almost broken out the other side! She is a big bunny (5kg) but even so I could not believe it! I just thought...imagine what a fox could achieve in the same time :shock:
. Months and months of it all being fine then took just one day and hazel had almost broken out the other side! She is a big bunny (5kg) but even so I could not believe it! I just thought...imagine what a fox could achieve in the same time :shock:
