whats the best way to keep a hutch cool?

Easter and domino are in a hutch atm with the babies it is sweltering inside Ive sprayed the hutch with the fly strike stuff gave them loads of water and watery fruit (they get it everyday so should be used to it) but the hutch is on fire! my back garden gets all the sun everywhere so im a bit unsure what to do x

could you put some sort of shade over it,fill bottles with water and then freeze them and put them in the cage,put ice cubes in the water

oo yeah fab Idea, Ill have to see what I can get small enough to make ice cubes for the bottles x

4390evans wrote:oo yeah fab Idea, Ill have to see what I can get small enough to make ice cubes for the bottles x

Just fill plastic bottles with water and freeze them - put them in the hutches and the buns can lay against them if they want to.

Hudad has just put an extractor fan in the chalet for Rosie & Dougal

He's used a 12v PC case fan running through a mechanical thermostat (the sort you used to get with your central heating before they went digital) and he's running it on three PP3 9v batteries connected in parallel. He thought using a spare motorbike battery would have been overkill

Father Jack wrote:Hudad has just put an extractor fan in the chalet for Rosie & Dougal

He's used a 12v PC case fan running through a mechanical thermostat (the sort you used to get with your central heating before they went digital) and he's running it on three PP3 9v batteries connected in parallel. He thought using a spare motorbike battery would have been overkill

how cool is the air that its kicking out,hubbie is going to buy some and hopefully hook it up to some solar pannels

fall3n-ang3l wrote:how cool is the air that its kicking out,hubbie is going to buy some and hopefully hook it up to some solar pannels

I think the trick is not to try to suck cool air in, but to use it as an extractor to suck hot air out

thanks sparky,i guess the answer was in the extractor word