A DIY Rabbit feeder is both cheap and easy to make. If you've got some scrap lumber laying
around. It's free, and it only took me about thrity minutes to make. This is the back piece
here. This along with the bottom and the front is a one by four and a one by two edge glued
together. These are the sides and they are just one by fours. You can head off to my
website simply easy diy dot com for a complete list of cuts and measurements.
A damp cloth will take care of that glue squeeze out no problem.
Flip it over and now I'll attach the bottom of the feeder. Same thing here as before.
One and a half inch brads
is what I'm using. If you don't have a nail gun like this don't let that disuade you.
you can use brad nails that you hammer in by hand or you can just set some wait on top
come back in half an hour. That glue will set up and it'll be just fine. See that where
half way done. That's not so bad right. Now we need a piece that we're going to stick
inside the feeder to help guide the food toward the front of the bowl. Now for this situation
a table saw could be considered a bit of an overkill. because just for a couple of angles
like this you could use a pull saw like this one. A pull saw like this will run you about
eight dollars at your local home improvement store and you can use it for all sorts of
projects. A hack saw which most people will have in there garages will work just as well.
So here is my common sense statement of the day. This is the long end cut. Duh, right.
This is the short end cut. I always like to measure from long end to long end. Just in
case your wondering Yes i've already done this once before as you can see. I forgot
to hit the record button on the camera. So
I decided to go thru the motions again just so I could show you.
A little glue and that piece will just sit right there.
Alright, we're almost done. Time to attach the front.
Now that is the basic construction but it's a little harsh on the hands. So I'm going
to round over the edges using a round over bit in my router table. Now I understand you
may not have a router. Don't worry about that either. If you have a simple piece of sand
paper. That's all you need. Just run it over those harsh corners until it is easier on
the hands and while your at it just go ahead and sand down the rest of it. I went over
to my belt sander but again, you don't need that either.
Even the most novice of rabbit whisperers knows that they need hay in there diet.
So let's go ahead and build a spot for that.
Now I thought about a lot of different materials for this but we keep chickens and
so I usually have small pieces of chicken wire laying around that's what got used.
This stuff can be harsh on hands so where some gloves
and make sure all the pokies are tucked away for rabbit safety.
I decided to attach this to the inside of my hutch so a top wasn't necessary but I will
include that in the design plans on my website at simply easy diy dot com. Just in case you
want to attach it in some other manner that may expose it to more of the elements. Hey
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