MissGuardian said:
I think that are rather common here too, but most bunnies are (I don´t know if that is the correct English term for them, but I do hope you understand which I mean anyway); hermelin, dwarf vedder, lionhead(?), or a mix of the above. Would that be considered dwarfs?
I will have to think about the cage/pen thing.. I would have to have a cage if I´m going away tho.. Not safe to have a pen there because of my ******* aunt putting out rat poision :rant: Do not want them to come in contact with anything like that(I´m mostly there once or twice a year, and in the summer, so I could have outtime outside most of the time). How big would the cage HAVE to be for two bunnies for shorter periods of time(weekends etc)? They hade one 100cm cage(didn´t check the price since I was looking for permanent cages), one 120cm(cost 895NOK*/~160$) and the 140cm was ~1600NOK*/~280$.
* The prices are more for my memory.
I would have to do the math on the veggies and such, but I don´t think it would cost too much.. Maybe I´d eat more veggies myself :lol:
We have all sorts of types of bunnies that are popular here too - dwarfs, lops, lionheads to name a few - but a lot of people think they're getting dwarfs end up with larger rabbits. It may be different there, especially since houses/apartments are smaller. For comparison, my foster bunny Snow White is a dwarf and she weighs 1.4 kg (3lbs) and my bunnies are "average" (although everyone says they look big) and they weigh 2.5-3.7 kg (5.5-8 lbs)... the 3.7 kg is an overweight rabbit. I can easily Snow White pick up with one hand when she's squirmy, my two I always need both hands.
I've never seen cage calculators for bunnies, perhaps because almost no cages are big enough for them. They bigger the better I would say, especially if they'll spend a weekend alone in it. It sounds like you're looking at the Ferplast cages, they fold down into the base for storage at least.
We eat more veggies because of the buns too! There are a lot of veggies we buy because we know if we can't eat them,we can give them to the bunnies instead of them going to waste. There are many veggies that feed us and them too - we give them the stems from broccoli and kale, the leaves and stems from cauliflower, peels from carrots and apples, tops from tomatoes and strawberries. I also shop at a local farmers market and sometimes I will get the clippings they would otherwise throw away for free.