How often do you clean the cage?

[OakRidgeRabbits]

My rabbits have the small plastic cat litterboxes from Walmart. I use pine shavings and they are cleaned usually every other day. Just dump and refill.

 

[Pet_Bunny]

I clean and vacuum Bebe's cage daily. I clean the rabbit run in the basement once a week. For the litterboxes, only the used portion gets scooped out and refilled daily. No need to throw out the unused wood pellets.

 

[fuzz16]

i used wood stove pellets and just take out the gross bits daily, but somehow my bonded pair wet their whole box in a day so i change theirs daily

 

[Acacia-Berry]

I was going to suggest more than one litter box. You did it ^^ I use newspaper too bc its free! There should never be a problem with concern over if the bunny will "take" to a new litter pan. If the bunny is litter trained and you put the new one in the same place as the old one then there should not be a problem !!

 

[tyebran]

I currently have 4 Lionheads and 2 litterboxes. Rabbit droppings are very high in nitrogen so I have a bin outside that I dump the litterbox "contents" into-and voila! In the spring, I have wonderful fertilizer for my gardens. Of course, I only use wood pellets, hay (which I pick out before dumping) or rabbit pellets for litter. I line the boxes with newspaper (which is thrown out before dumping, also).

The hay is the cheapest filler (but a little messy inside and doesn't absorb smell)

The rabbit pellets are the cheapest

The wood pellets absorb smell the best

 

[tyebran]

Great idea! I could "scoop" the litterboxes when I refresh their hay. Thanks:big wink: