Rabbits as such does not need a nesting box.
They should always have a 'private' room where they can go though.
Provide them with hay or dried gras and they will make the nest them selves. When they start to pluck their own fur out, then you know they are close to having kittens. They do this normally a week or so before having babies.
You will have to fill up the nesting box with 2 inches of shaved ceder. Or to the second nuckle of your logest finger. Then you would loosly put hay in the rest of the box. Take your fist and put a tuked hole in the box. Your mother rabbit will take care of the rest. She should pull out a lot of fur from her neck and put it around the hole. If she doesn't have enogh fur you think, collect hair from brushing her and put it in the box. Good luck with your kits!
If this question is about the rabbit's enclosure in general, see the related question below for details and links.
If this question is about a nesting box where the rabbit will keep her babies, see the related link below for information. According to the link, the only thing you should put in the nesting box is hay.
As a minimum, your rabbit hutch needs:
Rabbits need time outside their hutch to play and socialize and exercise every day (minimum four hours a day). You should also observe your rabbit's appearance and behaviour, and keep track of its habits (eating, drinking, peeing, pooping, activity levels, mobility), so that you can spot illnesses and injuries before they start. All areas the rabbit has access to need to be safe and "bunny-proofed." See the related links and questions below for details.
Not all rabbits live in hutches. Some live in cages, crates, exercise pens, cube condos, or in a room or section of the home. What you need inside and outside the area is basically the same no matter how your rabbit lives.
wooden box work best you can buy them offline like on e-bay or a local petshop may have one
In the corner of your cage that is not your bunny's potty corner.
i would say a wood nest box for colder days and a metal nest box for the warmer days days because a metal nest box would just get cold when in the winter so that would freeze the kits
a cardboard box can be okay
In or out of what? Their nest box? They should stay in their nest box until they are able to get out by themselves. Is that your question?
They use their hair to build a nest, so they pull it out and put it in a nest for their young. It is good to put some hay in the cage also for the nest.
In the belfry.
like all other bunnies, she will eat more, drink more, and build a nest. She will pull out hair from he chest to put in her nest. It's totally normal. Make sue to give her a box or private area that is dark and private for her to have her babies in.
You put the doe in the bucks cage, and watch. The buck will get on the does back and hump. When he falls off (he may give a shrill squeal) they have successfully mated. Mark the date on the calendar, count 31 days from date . This is the date you should get baby bunnies but on he 28th day you should put a nest box in the does cage, this will give her time to build her nest. You should use straw or good clean grass hay to fill the nest box.
no its not healfy for the rabbit
No... shell have a nother nest to have when she has a next litter. Because she would want her bunnies that are born to have that nest.
Your doe is more than likely NOT going to have babies. Is she using her nest box for a potty?? That is a sure sign she is not pregnant, either that or you put her nest box in her potty corner and her cage is too small for her to establish another potty area. Usually after a doe makes her nest she does not set in it until the babies are born. Did you put the nest in too early??? That is another reason she might set in it. A nest box should not be put in with your doe until 3 days before she is due.
You can put nest boxes out with bird feeders and hay. The birds will feel safe within a nest box.
If the dudgies didnt lay their eggs in the nest it is because they didnt make the nest . At any pet store there is alittle ball that you put straw in it for the birds make their own nest and you can get them a nest box.
Yes, if a raccoon discovers a nest of bunnies it will eat them.
If they are still with their mother you put them in a box filled with hay that has a lid and a hole in the front so the mother can get in and out. If they don't have a mother then you can put them in a regular box with either a blanket or some hay somewhere warm but not too warm.