I know that this has been discussed quite a lot recently on RU with the sudden drastic change in weather, but I'm a very paranoid bunny mother about whether my two babies are warm enough outside.
Where I am in Wales the snow didn't settle like a lot of other places in the UK, but it was still very cold and wet. Yesterday morning I found Beatrice drenched in the run, clearly she didn't have the common sense to take herself inside to snuggle up on the dry hay.
For those of you who haven't seen our setup, this is what it looks like:
20171025_160316 by Rachel Brown, on Flickr
(Bear in mind this was a couple of months ago, the run is now mostly mud :roll: )
The hutch is very dry and sheltered because the greenhouse run has perspex on the roof and a couple of panels on each side too. That's all it is though, just a hutch, no fancy insulation or anything. Last night I stuffed it with extra hay and was extra especially paranoid because snow had been falling all day. I ended up waking up at 4.00 in the morning to loud winds shaking the windows, I was outside before I knew what I was doing to check if they were okay and they seemed perfectly fine in there.
Next summer, my OH and I are planning on extending the greenhouse backwards, as there's a good 4ft behind it, so that there's more of a shed rather than the hutch.
I'm just wondering if what they have for now is enough? I'm making sure they're topped up with hay and straw every night, but in the morning I always find it pushed out of the way with them lying on the cold lino :roll:
Also, Beatrice doesn't use the upstairs most sheltered part as a bedroom anymore, because despite my best efforts, Ham insists that it's his second toilet now. She rarely even goes upstairs anymore.
I keep day dreaming about bringing them in, but it is 100% impractical. We're in the middle of renovating and my OH and I are both work from home artists, so our house has a lot of dangerous equipment and tools all over the place.
I just want to make sure that both of my bunnies are safe and happy!
Where I am in Wales the snow didn't settle like a lot of other places in the UK, but it was still very cold and wet. Yesterday morning I found Beatrice drenched in the run, clearly she didn't have the common sense to take herself inside to snuggle up on the dry hay.
For those of you who haven't seen our setup, this is what it looks like:
20171025_160316 by Rachel Brown, on Flickr
(Bear in mind this was a couple of months ago, the run is now mostly mud :roll: )
The hutch is very dry and sheltered because the greenhouse run has perspex on the roof and a couple of panels on each side too. That's all it is though, just a hutch, no fancy insulation or anything. Last night I stuffed it with extra hay and was extra especially paranoid because snow had been falling all day. I ended up waking up at 4.00 in the morning to loud winds shaking the windows, I was outside before I knew what I was doing to check if they were okay and they seemed perfectly fine in there.
Next summer, my OH and I are planning on extending the greenhouse backwards, as there's a good 4ft behind it, so that there's more of a shed rather than the hutch.
I'm just wondering if what they have for now is enough? I'm making sure they're topped up with hay and straw every night, but in the morning I always find it pushed out of the way with them lying on the cold lino :roll:
Also, Beatrice doesn't use the upstairs most sheltered part as a bedroom anymore, because despite my best efforts, Ham insists that it's his second toilet now. She rarely even goes upstairs anymore.
I keep day dreaming about bringing them in, but it is 100% impractical. We're in the middle of renovating and my OH and I are both work from home artists, so our house has a lot of dangerous equipment and tools all over the place.
I just want to make sure that both of my bunnies are safe and happy!