Product Description

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #156870 in Books
• Published on: 1982-01-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780882662961
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
Since the 1973 publication of Storey's first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey's Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.

About the Author
Rabbit enthusiast Bob Bennett has written six books, including Bob Bennett's Guide to Winning Rabbit Shows, Raising Rabbits Successfully, and Storey's Raising Rabbits the Modern Way. Besides writing many articles for newspapers and magazines, Bob has been editor of Rabbits magazine, contributing editor to Countryside magazine, and founder of Domestic Rabbit magazine. He has appeared on NBC-TV's "Today Show" for a feature on rabbits, and has spoken on rabbits to commercial producers, feed companies, and fanciers, and is past director of the American Rabbit Breeders' Association.

The Mother Earth News has said of Bob's book: "A thorough guide...covering selection, purchase, rearing, care, and breeding of bunnies." Also, a newspaper from Hawaii, The Maui News, has also commented, "...Bennett says all there is to say about rabbits...well presented. His style is simple and straight-forward, and, above all, easy to understand."

Bob lives in Shelburne, Vermont, and is vice president of corporate communications for Howard Bancorp and the Howard Bank.

Customer Reviews

Building Rabbit Housing
I really liked this book. It was VERY helpful for building a safe rabbit house. Any one that is getting a rabbit or already has one and wants to build a new house for it, I think this is the book for them.

Tastes like chicken, but with only half the fat!
Building wire hutches for rabbits isn't rocket science. This booklet (about 27 useful pages) gives you step by step instructions on how to build wire hutches, nest boxes and carrying boxes for rabbits.

The concern here is for mostly meat/fur rabbits and breeding of meat/fur rabbits. It includes information on watering, feeding devices and hay racks. What it leaves out is the type of shed you need to build or buy to house the hutches in. And you will need something to put the hutches in to keep them out of the weather. These are NOT hutches for the living room of your house, unless you want rabbit feces and urine all over you walls and floor.

Information on sheds, from large to small is in "Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits: Breeds, Care, Facilities". You can get most of the advice and information you need from that book and from "Raising Rabbits the Modern Way" which contains a less step by step information on building cages. The two books and the booklet are all by Bob Bennett. If you only want information on building cages, then buy this booklet "Build Rabbit Housing" and save yourself a few dollars.

I've found most books with the word "Modern" in it are usually older than I am, but not in this case. First published in 1975. (when one of the first personal computers came out: the MITS Altair 8800. Soldering iron not included. http://oldcomputers.net/altair.html).
A long time ago, but both have been updated in the late eighties and I think the books have held up well and have a lot to teach us.

A lot of people are horrified at the thought of someone eating cute fluffy bunnies. I eat meat. I feel as long as I am going to eat meat I'm going to try to limit my intake, and try to be sure that the animals I consume are raised and killed in the most humane methods possible. The best way to do that is to raise them myself.

BTW, this booklet is available as a downloadable pdf elsewhere on the net for the same price as the printed here, but I'll leave it for you to locate.

The BEST publication on the subject
The Storey guides are the best and informative publications I have bought. Having bought expensive books that said the same thing as the Build Rabbit Housing: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-82
by Bob Bennett does I highly recommend this publication first and foremost. The information is easy to read, illustrations etc easy to follow. Save money as well by putting the money you would have put toward an expensive book on the subject, toward other rabbit needs.