How much bedding should I use for my rabbits cage?

Question

How much bedding should I use for my rabbits cage?

Answer 1

Enough to cover the floor. Many people use 1-inch of bedding.

You'll be able to save on bedding, if you find out what corner your rabbit tends to use, and then putting a litter pan there. :)

Answer 2

What kind of cage?

Answer 3

You need a layer of woodshavings along the bottom of the cage about an inch thick.

It should be slightly thicker in the winter and the bedding area should contain straw.

If you have a rabbit with particularly long fur then you could use a form of wood based litter in the cage instead.

Answer 4

This answer depends a lot on where you are keeping the animal and the size of the cage. I use a small litter pan with about 2 inches of boreal pellets (like feline pine cat litter, but made with aspen instead of pine) and then I put a couple handfulls of dry straw in the nest box area each week. There's another plastic litte pan in the hutch for my rabbit on the wire bottomed part where I put timmothy hay daily.

I had to separate my two bunnies a couple months back, so in the smaller cage that is on top of the hutch I just fill the nest box area with straw, and put about an inch deep of the boreal in the other part of the cage and put the timmothy on top of that close to the end where her box is...

It really has a lot to do with preference :0)

Answer 5

Well, I would spread some news paper on the floor of the cage first. Just enough to cover the whole bottom. Then I would use some wood chips and put a thin layer of that on top of the newspaper. You don't have to put a certain amout really just enough to cover the floor. Unfortunaly wirh rabbits you have to clean their cage often if you plan on keeping them inside. U might need alot of newspaper!

Answer 6

Enough shavings to cover the floor. If you are putting straw in, only use it in winter because it attracts flees and lice but put in enough so it fills the whole sleeping bit to the roof. It looks alot but rabbits usaully sleep in burrows so they will burrow into it and alot of it will flatten down anyway, like with horses.