What Is a Custom Rabbit Hutch Cover? A custom rabbit hutch cover is a clear PVC screen, cut to the size of your hutch or run and fixed over the exposed mesh with eyelets and ties. It is not an off-the-shelf cover in the closest size, and not a poly tarp thrown over the top and tied down. It is a fitted window against the weather. It keeps wind and rain off your rabbit while the light still gets through, so they stay dry and can see out. You can see in, without unfastening anything, every time you walk past. Choose your material in the configurator above — compare the two clear PVCs on our screen and tarpaulin fabrics page. Why Don't Universal Hutch Covers Fit? Ready-made bunny hutch covers are made for ready-made hutches: a cover for a Chartwell, one for a Bluebell, one for a 5ft Foxglove Apex. Many hutches are not this. They are custom built, second-hand, or the model was discontinued years ago. Some are extended with a run bolted on the side. An apex roof sheds water where a pent roof will not. A two-storey hutch has a ramp in the way. A universal cover has to guess at all of it. So it bags where it is loose, gaps where it is tight, and pools water in the sag. If nothing is made for your enclosure, our free design service will work it out from your photos and measurements before anything is cut. What Does It Protect? Your Rabbit The mesh front is open to whatever the wind carries. Driven rain goes straight through it, onto the rabbit sitting behind. A screen stops the weather at the panel instead. Draughts At Floor Level Wind runs low through a hutch, right where your rabbit sleeps. Screening the exposed side takes the draught out without sealing the hutch up or blocking the airflow it needs. Dry Bedding Bedding that gets rained on stays damp for days in winter, and damp bedding chills a rabbit right through the night. Keeping it dry is most of keeping a rabbit comfortable outdoors. Cold Nights A dry rabbit out of the wind copes with a frost far better than a wet one does. The screen will not heat the hutch, but it takes away the two things that make cold hard to handle. Hay And Feed Hay and feed sit at the front, where the weather reaches them first. Sodden hay gets thrown out, and a rain-filled bowl is tipped and refilled twice as often through a bad week. Daylight And A View Clear PVC is the point. An opaque cover shuts the hutch into the dark for weeks. This one keeps the daylight in, so you can check on your rabbit through the screen without opening anything. Which Hutch or Run Do You Have? Which Hutch or Run Do You Have? A screen is a flat panel made to the width and drop you give us. Your enclosure decides the number of panels — we can make any shape, in any number. Run Covers A run is the open mesh part — a low run, an ark, or a walk-in you can stand up in. Screens go on the sides you want sheltered, and on the roof if the top is mesh too. Cover one side and leave the rest open, or do the lot. Hutch Covers A typical hutch is a box with doors: one solid, one mesh, sometimes two of each side by side. The screen sits over the mesh section, sized to the opening, and ties through eyelets at the edges. Ready-made hutches come in 4ft, 5ft and 6ft widths — plenty of hutches do not, and it makes no difference here. Enclosure Covers An enclosure is a bigger build: a shed or house with a run attached, or one large enough to stand up and walk around in. These get covered a panel at a time, apex or pent, one storey or two. What Happens When the Weather Gets In? Rain that gets through the mesh does not stop at the mesh. Here is where it ends up. Rain driven through an open mesh front Wind running low through the hutch Bedding left damp for days Feed spoiled by rain Water pooled in a sagging cover A run floor turned to mud Before After AS FEATURED ON @bunny_and_henry_and_moo_moo Instagram How Is This Rabbit Hutch Cover Different? 01 Cut to Your Hutch or Run, Not a Size Category You give us the width and the drop, we cut to it. The screen arrives sized to your hutch or run, not to a model list. 02 Clear PVC, in Two Weights Flexi 30 is a lighter 320gsm clear PVC that stays supple in cold weather. Ultra 50 is a heavier 550gsm sheet, close to glass-clear. Compare them on our screen and tarpaulin fabrics page. 03 Eyelets and Ties That Hold in Wind Wind gets under a cover before it gets over one. Every screen has eyelets around the edge for ties or bungees, so the bottom edge holds. More on eyelets and tie-downs. 04 Backed by the First-Time Fit Guarantee You approve a scaled design before anything is cut. If it does not fit as intended, our First Time Fit Guarantee covers a remake, free of charge. Every screen also carries a fabric warranty, doubled if you choose the KuvrPlus warranty extension. When Do You Need a Custom Hutch Cover? Not every hutch needs one. Here is how to tell which side you are on. Exposed To The Weather This screen is right for you if: Nobody makes a cover for your model. It is second-hand, discontinued, self-built, or a hutch and run bolted together. The enclosure faces the weather rather than a wall, so rain comes in through the mesh whenever the wind is behind it. You want the rain and wind off without shutting your rabbit into the dark, and without losing sight of them. Already Sheltered You don't need this if: The maker still sells a high quality fitted cover for your exact model, and it fits the way it should. The hutch lives indoors, in a shed or in a garage, out of the wind and rain already. You want an opaque cover that closes the hutch in completely rather than a clear screen.