Cleaning Rabbit Pans

We raise show rabbits and have around 50 or 60 rabbits @ this time (we have cut back for the winter), my husband and I can totally clean our whole barn in about an hour, we have all stackable cages (yes they have plenty of room, each cage is 24 x 24, some are 36 x 36), so we pull the tray out, spray them off, use some Vanodin on them and them use pine shavings in each tray. Once a mth each cage is sprayed with Vanodin and twice a year everything is taken out of the barn and thoroughly cleaned.

When I was younger we had three rabbits we got at the Portage County Fair, my father built a rabbit cage for them....the middle part pulled out and the rabbit "poop" would slide off the metal sheeting onto plastic trash bags we had layed open on the concrete, and then we would roll up the trash (after cleaning out all the straw and other stuff first) bags and throw them away....we would then spray a hose of water on the whole cage and let it dry....where were the rabbits during this?....in one of those playpens for kids (the big kind that looks like a fence) in the yard getting fresh air....it took about an hour for the cage to dry, and then we refilled the bowls, straw and the rabbits and done....it took us about 3 hours, and we did this every other day, for 6 months, then we couldn't handle it anymore! And that was because my grandmothers neighbors kid had a rabbit that he trained to go on a "rabbit potty", a hole cut in the middle of the wood cage with a steel pipe (like for the back of your dryer) and attached to that was a black plastic trash bag...the rabbit we adopted named "Herbie", would go in the "bathroom" part of the cage and do his business, and all we had to do was wait till the trash bag looked filled and then change it....we rinsed the steel tube out most of the time, and mom would sprinkle baking soda in the trash bag and a little underneath the straw that we laid around the potty, and that made it have no smell at all. We changed to white trash bags, shortly after, then you could see the crap in the bag and could monitor when to change it easier. Our rabbit Herbie's little cage was really decked out....he had a bedroom, a little sun room, a bathroom, and his kitchen....he kept them pretty neat! This is a true childhood story of mine, and this rabbit really was "potty trained". This is the only advice I have for you....hope you can use it...Good luck and have a nice day!

I actually had my rabbit litter box trained. I'm assuming you have your rabbit in a cage (mine just roamed like a cat). What you need to do is go buy a rabbit litter box from petco/petsmart. Theyre made for rabbits, but you can also use a small cat one. Put it in the cage and fill it with they hay. Rabbits should ALWAYS have accessable hay. They like to 'graze' while going to the bathroom so you just put it in the litter box. They like to go in one spot so they pretty much come trained already. Hope that helps!

Can't you just have the rabbits on a tight hole cage bottom? Then you could keep a lined trash barrel under each cage. You would not have to clean up, and they would not have to have the mess in their cage. It would go right down though the holes of the wire. But small, so their feet don't get stuck. Do you raise or breed rabbits? Why so many? What about a large pen outside with all of them in it together. One for males, and one for females. Then you could rake up the mess.

I use a nice little setup that is very easy to clean: I use a puppy pen (roughly 16 square feet), over a sheet of linoleum. This can be swept off to keep old hay off the floor. Then I put a litterbox in and just change that daily. In a hurry, it can just be dumped and refilled with litter rather than completely cleaned out. Wood pellets or recycled paper works well, or I use shavings (make sure to use aspen, or kiln dried pine, not cedar). I think you probably have too many rabbits if you have to use stacked and hanging cages. Rabbits need to have plenty of space to run around in.

We raise Dwarf Noreign Bunnies. We use the Amish method. We have raised beds for our garden. We simply put the bunny pens over the raised beds. We move them often and the rabbit poop goes directly into the garden. The great thing about rabbit poop is that it is useable immediately in gardens. It is not like cow or goat poop, it does not need to sit for a year before use. The pen automaticly cleans itself and the garden is fertilized at the same time. We move the pen down the garden bed on a regualar basis. My sister in law built a shoot of sorts. She just scoops the poop directly down the shoot and it is them deposited into a compost pile of sorts. No bending or lifting.

Well I use to raise rabbits and after I ended up with over 1000 of them I gave up this processing plants closed and I had so many rabbits I did not know what to do with them all. But my cages had wire floors and they were stacked two high and I used metal roofing for slides under the 2nd level then everything was in th back of the cages and easy to scoop up with a shovel ones a month or so. They always go in the same place so it was easy setting up a slide even if it was in a different place on each cage.

they are hard to clean that is all i know

Is there any way that you can get more of the pens to hang? This would help in the clean up process. Also, is there a way that you can have the pens stacked along a wall of the outbuilding/garage so that there might be only 3 pens high, with room between each, so that cleanup is less of a chore for you. What about hiring a neighborhood child to clean the pens for you, this might be another option for you. This way, you are less drained, and you help someone earn money, that might need it.

i have a dog....sorry no rabbits

How about a fire hose? :D

100 pans to clean and being 50 and diabetic I need to find an easier way of doing it. It takes me 3 hours to do them and I am exhausted afterwards. We use wood pellets and they have been a real help as I don't have to clean them totally everytime only once a week. Some of our cages are hanging so that easy to clean up but the stacking cages (6 to a set) are the problem.