Identifier: bonanzarabbitrym00plat (find matches)
Title: The Bonanza rabbitry manual; a practical treatise presenting tested and approved methods for the mating, feeding, management, exhibiting and marketing of the Belgian hare, noblest of the rabbit family
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Platt, Burton Coles
Subjects: Belgian hare
Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal., B. C. Platt
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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and is full as long as there is asupply of grain above. One of theseshould be provided for oats and one forbran, for we may say there is no foodas good for the hare as light-weightbran and oats. In the grain roomthere should be placed some sort of acooking apparatus such as will permitthe preparation of hot mashes and ofhot waten This room will be six by eight feet, forthis purpose. This room will also be ofgreatest value in treating hares thattake cold or have any similar disease.Placing them in this room and raisingthe temperature until they are thor-oughly warm—as described more fullyin our chapter on diseases—is often theonly way to preseive their lives. Suchan apartment as this, to be used as anursery and a sanitarium, is as es-sential to a well-equipped rabbitry asthe pens. It may frequently save thelife of a hundred-dollar hare. In preparing this apartment, due carewill be taken, of course, to guard againstfire by having the chimney well ce- 26 THE BONANZA RABBITRY MANUAL.
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THE BONANZA RABBITRY MANUAL. 27 mented and protected by galvanizediron. Full arrangements should be madefor ventilating this room. In dividing off your rabbitry into pensyou may either make the partitionssolid or construct panels which may af-terwards be put in place. If made solid,the upper edges of the wire netting willbe attached to the upper floor and thelower edges to the lower floor. Theportions outside should be made of pan-els, as these are more portable and itwill undoubtedly be necessary, once intwo or three years, to take up the wirenetting which carpets the pens, and tostir up the soil, removing three or fourinches deep from the surface and replac-ing this with fresh earth. The contin-uous use of the same soil for so long atime will inevitably, sooner or later,cause sickness among the stock throughpoisoning the earth, unless it is renewedoccasionally. The same thing is true offowls, hogs, sheep and cattle when theyare kept in close confinement. The inner portion of the pen

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