This sounds very do-able to me.
Same thing I've done outside. Rabbit hutches are up on legs, chickens run around on the ground.
Seems like there would be a food problem if you ran them together. Chickens would take it all if they could. They eat a lot more and a lot faster than rabbits, and are omnivores, while rabbits are just greenery eaters. Not the same pellets.
Diane S.
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I know that Joel Salatin (author of many books on integrated farming) has written about overwintering his laying chickens and rabbits together, I think in a hoop house, which he calls the "RaKen House." The rabbits are in the usual hutches, up on legs, while the chickens have the run of the hoop house otherwise. The rabbit poop falls through the wire floors onto the ground (actually the beds of the hoop house) and the chickens scratch around and work everything into the beds. I don't remember which of his books the description is in--but I think there's also something about worms either in the beds, or for composting, which add to what the chickens get?
The chickens and rabbits are NOT mixed together, though--just in the same facility.
Rhonda
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