When I read your thread title I immediately thought of Bekas custom hidey hut. Glad you’ve already seen that.

The plywood + vinyl tiles would work. My only thought is if urine goes throught the gaps between tile and soaks into the wood. It could become a spot for bunnies to remark with pee.

You could use a vinyl remnant to go under the entire pen. You could even fold it up some to contain random droppings and hay. Some people have uses pieces of coroplast board to create a guard around the boundaries. I’m just not certain what would be best for chewers.

I think you’d also like Bekas solution for hay bin over the litterbox. I’ll try add a picture but basically she has a container suspended off the xpen with a ziptie loop and a dog clip. It sits over the litterbox so they have to get into it to access their hay.

Cheaper, effective litter you say? WOOD STOVE PELLETS! Lots of member use and recommend them. You can buy as stove pellets that are accelerant free or pellet horse bedding. Same thing.

Edit: Here’s Beka’s hay set up.

I’ve often thought those metal pot plant baskets could be used too. Some of them are actually called “hay rack” style.

I have a quick tube in my bunnies pen. They love lying in it and running through it. It is a cardboard tube that is used to mold cement or something. I also have a maze haven in their pen and they love sleeping in that and chewing it too!

For the water bottle I use the water buddy, which works differently from other water bottles so it does not leak as much.

My bunnies love that packing paper stuff. It is paper bag material (you could probably just throw in some of those too!), but it is really long. I scrunch it up for them and they love pushing it around, hiding under it, and chewing it.

I did something similer to beka for hey..I bent a NIC grid, zip tied it to the pen, and strapped(because jenny throws her litter bixes around) the litterbox undernieth the rack. in Jennys case, she likes to sit in the hay reguradless, she climbes over the box and sits in the hay rack, so the wide spacing on the grid helps the hay remain clean as anything heavy from pee just falls through the grid into the box, as do her poops when she hops around on the rack, basicley “sifting” the hay.

for play things, I took a rubbermaid bin, turned it upside down, drilled holes in the bottom and ct a door way into the side, then I hung little willow ball’s stuffed with hay, some long, some short and also intermixed it I ripping newspaper into strips, rolling the ends andsticking them up through the holls so that she goes inside and has all kinds of things to walk through and shred.

The wood hidey house my husband made is very, very awesome! We purposely made it the exact dimensions of one end of the pen so they can’t get behind it. Only drawback so far is it’s heavy to lift, but fortunately my bunnies are neat-freaks and I only need to move it when I do the full pen cleaning. I wanted something to add vertical height to the xpen, but I’ve never had much luck with building stuff out of NIC grids, so it’s worked out great.

It sounds like you’ve gotten things figured out! I also did the side-by-side xpens when bonding my pair and I liked the set-up.

I think the cotton yarn is fine for making rabbit accessories. They may quickly destroy it though and all your crocheting will have to resume which will mean more relaxing time for you (j/k)!

I am interested in seeing your NIC bendy thing, can you take a picture?

FYI on the petroleum stuff – I looked into getting some myself since I was in the middle of one hell of a shed, most things I read now seem to be recommending it for preventative and saying it’s actually not that helpful once an obstruction is formed (or could even make the problem worse in some cases). I read that if you’re going to use it, 2x a week during sheds or all the time is the way to go.

That looks great Arson! It’s very reminiscent to what my original bonding set-up looked like. After they bonded, I was able to reconfigure the pens so they still had the same area (4×8 feet) but no divider.