running pen rabbit transition
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long swamp
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running pen rabbit transition
I was wondering how others transition their rtabbits from a hutch to the running pen. I have been trying for about a year and the best I think I can do is take them from the hutch at about three months to an small on the groung enclosure (5' x 10'). In the small on the ground pen they seem to get their footing and stop being so friendly before I release them in the larger pen. I use smokey cross, and am wondering how others feel the best way to intoduce them to the pen.
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PREACHERS KENNEL
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jtrkuk
i just dump then in the running pen agive them about 3 days to get used to it turn a dog in on them stay close sometimes they catch them but they get the idea real quick lol.
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Best I've had was a bred doe that got loose and had her young under the building. Never knew it till the young ones started showing up out around the building and I though they were rats... 
Watched them from the house with the scope to see they were little rabbits. Caught them in a live trap and moved them to the pen at 1/2 grown and let me tell you they had their legs.
That's the best I've had and they were already used to eating the grass and knew when to head to cover.
I give them a couple weeks to get used to the pen and the first to run them are the 4 month old pups that won't put the hurt on them to bad. The longer they live and run in the pen, the better they get at staying alive. I've had some get so smart as to climb up into the brushpile 3 ft. off the ground, the pups would come through and look as though the rabbit had just took flight...
... My ole Buddy Patch was one pup that would wind the rabbits off the brushpile when they did that, while the rest of the pups were searching around with their noses down, this little whisp of the wind, would lift his head up tasteing the air and follow it to the brushpile and stand on his hind legs with fore feet on the starter log and bay the rabbit up in the top of the pile. A great little hound, I hope the gunhunter Mike Roach sold him to realizes what they got... 
Watched them from the house with the scope to see they were little rabbits. Caught them in a live trap and moved them to the pen at 1/2 grown and let me tell you they had their legs.
That's the best I've had and they were already used to eating the grass and knew when to head to cover.
I give them a couple weeks to get used to the pen and the first to run them are the 4 month old pups that won't put the hurt on them to bad. The longer they live and run in the pen, the better they get at staying alive. I've had some get so smart as to climb up into the brushpile 3 ft. off the ground, the pups would come through and look as though the rabbit had just took flight...
... My ole Buddy Patch was one pup that would wind the rabbits off the brushpile when they did that, while the rest of the pups were searching around with their noses down, this little whisp of the wind, would lift his head up tasteing the air and follow it to the brushpile and stand on his hind legs with fore feet on the starter log and bay the rabbit up in the top of the pile. A great little hound, I hope the gunhunter Mike Roach sold him to realizes what they got...