Hiya! We use Vet bed all the time in our Sanctuary, we brought a mega 15metre roll in green that should keep us going for a few years.
I got fed up with sawdust getting everywhere and decided to switch to vet bed to line all the hutches, both indoors and out doors.
As Annie suggested, we found the best way to keeping hutches clean is to cover the wooden floor with Lino, then a long length of Vet Bed (which absorbs the urine takes it away from the bunnies skin to a large extent) and pop a litter tray one end ....lined with newspaper and hay on top, no sawdust and a hay box (Tissue box stuffed with hay!!) the other end of the hutches.
I was concerned that the bunnies would eat the Vet bed, but in 26 bunnies, there is only one that I had to remove the Vet bed from, as she really insisted on chewing it.
I find the bunnies have a nibble to begin with, but once they discover how comfortable and snug the bedding is, they soon settle down.
Supervise your bunny very carefully when using Vet bed for the first time and remove if they really start to eat it.
I find that I need to carry a large plastic bag around with me to collect up the soiled Vet bedding each morning, as Vet bedding absorbs a lot of urine, so when you move it all the urine leaks out.
have a plastic bag handy and pop it straight into that from the hutch, to avoid spillages.
Vet Bed can only be washed at low temperatures, so we put it on the Wool Wash cycle, but this of course is not hot enough to kill bacteria.
We add some rabbit safe disinfectant,( Genie is a good one), to the wash.
Vet Bed can be tumble dried on a COOL cycle and seems to be very hard wearing considering it requires such constant washing.
Please check your washing machine and Tumble dryer filters regularly though as fluff tends to collect from the Vet bed.
I would never go back to the sawdust and hay routine of before, as the bunnies adore their snuggly hutches, and I am happy too, so it is better all round