I have had them jump at my finger thinking it was food as i give them
water. The ones i got from you are doing fine. Burke in Sunny Ca. It was
78 here to day. <VEG>
Chuck Snyder wrote:
> I had never thought of doing that. They do blast into it, and I worried
> about injury, but after 3 years w/o any problem I stopped thinking about
> it.
>
> The problem with padding a dish is that it would allow a surface that
> the crix could walk up and escape. I am open to suggestions ???
>
> You need a ceramic dish with vertical sides that is highly glazed. The
> best I have found are sold at the pet stores and on the NET as "rabbit
> feeding dishes", they conform to the above criteria and have a thick lip
> around the top. I cut a piece of plywood with a hole so that the dish
> will fit down in the hole, being held in by the lip. Then you can put
> the dish up high by attaching the plywood holder to the side of the
> cage. This gets the food up where the animals live. I never see mine on
> the ground, except to get water, females go to the flower pots that have
> the live plants to lay eggs.
>
> One word of warning, a food dish up high like that may also become a
> favored sleeping place, so be prepared to put in more than one. In my
> breeder cage I had to put in three, one for eating and one for each
> animal to sleep in !!!
>
> >>Do you pad the dish ? So they don't hurt there nose? Burke
> --
> Regards...
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