Managing your rabbitry for health and happiness

Today I wanted to share with you a few tips to help manage your rabbitry. A healthy happy herd will live longer and produce better bunnies for you.
I do not use a watering system for my small herd, I use clean water bottles so I can monitor water intake. Bottles are emptied and refilled with clean cold water as needed.
I use mineral salt wheels in every cage they are hanging using a metal shower curtain holder. Salt and minerals are an important part of supplementing pelleted feeds. In addition to Blue Seals Sunshine Plus and some rolled oats, salt provides electrolytes to keep your animals processing their feed efficiently. You can not make your animals lick the salt, so you can be assured that if they use the salt mineral wheel they need it. Also pictured are the toys each rabbit plays with, they are colorful easy, to clean, and have a little bell. They are available at Pets Supplies Plus (in the cat isle) and are approx 4 inches wide.
We all know that monitoring feed and water intake is important. I use a simple effective system for food monitoring. I bought a bag of plastic clothespins at a local dollar store. I have included pictures, I put the clothes pin on the left top of the feeder when the rabbit is eating normally: when an individual does not clean up the feed at the next feeding I place the clothespin in the center of the feeder. I always think I will remember what rabbit is off feed, but the clothespin reminds me. If the rabbit has left feed for 2 feedings I move the pin to the extreme right hand side of the feeder and go into alert mode. When the rabbit returns to normal feeding I return the clothespin to the left side.....