Wooden Hay Rack Alpe

Wooden Hay Rack Alpe

A stable wooden hay rack in which you can put fresh hay for your guinea pig or rabbit every day. The hay rack is lockable from the top. The hay rack is made of untreated natural wood. A big advantage of this hay rack is that it is low to the ground, so that guinea pigs can also reach it. The top of the rack can easily be used as a viewing platform, especially rabbits like that!

✔ Made of plywood Wood
✔ Removable roof for easy refill
✔ Flat roof gives extra seating space

This hay rack is suitable for use as a basic hay rack.

A suitable rack

Vertical bars: A good hay rack should be made in such a way that the animals can get between the bars with their muzzle part, but this usually only works particularly well with vertical bars (because most animal noses are not that wide, but they are high/long). However, the animals must not be able to put their heads through them, otherwise their heads may get caught between the supports. If you see that your animal's head can go through the bars, then take the rack out of the enclosure and choose a rack with a smaller spacing.

How wide the spacing should be depends on the animal species, roughly the following distances are common for the following animal species:

Degus: 2.5 to 3 cm
Chinchillas about 2.5 - 3 cm
Guinea pig: about 3 cm
Dwarf rabbits: about 3 - 3.5 cm
Medium-sized rabbits up to about 4 cm
Large Rabbits: up to about 4.5 cm

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