Simplifying the process only works if you actually do it correctly.
A while ago I had a good idea: let's hook up a watering system for the rabbits so that we no longer have to fill the individual bottles. The idea was great and I even hooked up the system pretty well, but there was one error that I made.
MY MISTAKE
The mistake that I made, which should have been an obvious error in hindsight, was that I ran the plastic tubing directly next to the cages. The plastic tubing hooks a five gallon bucket of water up to six different watering spouts. This is supposed to allow rabbits in each pen to be able to drink as much as they want until the water supply is depleted.
Unfortunately, the tubing is not bite-proof and the rabbits can stick the front of their faces out of the cages. This allowed them to chew right through the tubing and ruin the whole system. Obviously, once a hole is in the system, it doesn't work anymore. Honestly, I should have thought about this ahead of time and realized that the rabbits, who like to gnaw, would reach the tubing and chew through it.
A CHEAP REPAIR AND A LESSON LEARNED
The tubing wasn't that expensive to replace, but I wasn't thrilled to have to invest more time in redoing something that I already did. Again, as long I learn my lesson I don't mind, but it still can be irritating. Thankfully, my caging allowed for a relatively easy fix, which also means that it would have been easy to just do properly in the first place.
Here you can see how I now put the tubing far away from the reach of the rabbits. I just wove it under the caging and brought it up to connect it to the drinking spout. This way, the only part that the rabbits can reach is the drinking spout.
I think that I have sufficiently learned from my mistakes, and hopefully by sharing this here you can all avoid making the same foolish mistakes that I did.... well for those of you who plan on hooking up watering systems for your rabbits anyway! Hope it helps.
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-fixing-my-mistake
Until next time…
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