They are more expensive than home-made hutches. If your rabbit is housed on wire, it is a wise idea to place a wood plank in one corner. This provides a platform to rest the rabbit's feet and help to prevent sore hocks. Ammonia is a respiratory irritant and can predispose your rabbit to pneumonia. Even with frequent cleaning, good ventilation is required to provide fresh air, cooling, and carry away odors, bacteria, etc.
Rabbits are very sensitive to heat.
Shade or fans should be provided to prevent the air temperature from rising over 80 degrees F. Healthy adult rabbits can tolerate gradually cooling temperatures down to 30 degrees F if shelter is provided from wind and rain. D isease Preventive medicine for your rabbit is much easier on you, your rabbit, and your pocket book. In particular, there are a few diseases that are easy to prevent, but very difficult to treat. One of the leading causes of death in rabbits is broken backs from improper handling. Rabbits break their backs because they have a very light skeleton that is coupled with tremendously strong back legs.