I just recently finished my diy rabbit cage. Total cost was $125 Usd without rabbit supplies.
Depending on the size you want i can redo my measurements and it’s very simple to do with minimal skills as most lumber yards will provide single cutting for you. (I was at home depot) my pen is comprised of a puppy exercise pen, one 9ftx6ft piece of finished plywood, two pieces of 2×3 wood, some heavy duty zip ties , 6×8 foot roll of laminate and vinyl adhesive.
What you need for a 2ftx4ft (8sqft with two levels):
1x puppy exercise pen
1x 6ftx9ft finished plywood
2x 2inx3in wood beams
3x square shape drowels
1x vinyl adhesive (optional)
1x laminate flooring of your choice (optional)
No tools method:
1. Go to home depot and go to the lumbar yard and search for a finished piece of plywood, they typically come in 4x8ft squares that can be cut really easy. Obtain 2×3’s and square drowel s as well.
2. Take all wood objects and ask your cutter to perform the following cuts
– take finished plywood with 3 cuts of 24 inches. This will give you three 2×4 prices for flooring.
– take 2×3’s and have one cut in 48 inches (4 feet) and the other in 24 inch segments (as many as possible you get three)
– take square drowel and have them cut in 28-30 inch segments. These will be the supports for multilevel areas if you choose this otherwise skip this step.
3. Obtain a dog exercise pen from petco/outsmart. I would reccoment 36 inches high to give you enough build space and periscope space for you bun but 24 is plenty if he does not periscope much.
– note: the spend cone linked together with steel fasteners. To remove them take a flathead, and some needle nose pliers and carefully pry them open.
4. At home assemble the cage like I have (click my signature below and view the habitat folder I used woodscrews and laminate flooring if you wish to go this route but it’s up to you, only tools you would need for this method are a power drill with a 9/11 boring tool for pilot holes)
– If you do not have tools just simply arrange the wood in the same shape to prevent messes or stray grass and cover the floors with fleece or memory foam mats.
You can also cut the extra plywood as steps for tour rabbit to jump up on use the drowels in the bars to use add supports and zip ties to secure the cage together. I recommend using x pattern loops to make it more secure (zip tie diagonally using over under this method can support 35 lbs of weight for every 12 x loops made.
For a bigger cage all you need to do is reduce the number of cuts so:
– plywood 2×6 or 4×4 cuts for taller cage
– 2×3 cuts in 28-30 (2×6 plywood) or 52-55 (4×4 plywood)
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Alternate method
I have a NIC cage diagram of you want to build a cage using box wire cages. Depending if you find 14×14 or 18×18 squares they come in packs of 15-18.
This is also in my habitat folder with my only changes being use square dowels versus round ones