The re-engineered rabbit hutch is working decently well. More overhang on the sides would be potentially helpful, but overall it's working worlds better than Hutch 1.0 did. However, once I put rabbits in, I realized they pick a corner of the cage as their latrine spot, and one of the rabbits ends up routinely urinating on the horizontal cage supports.
I should've realized this would be a problem. It would've been much easier to address before installing the rabbits. Alas. However, it was addressable ex post, too. I pulled all four cages off:
...and painted the 2x4s the cages rest on with high-gloss white paint:
I only did one coat... I should do another. You can also see that I painted the insides of the cross braces and the vertical supports, too--I had heard, but had to experience first hand, that bucks spray urine everywhere. So far, the two boys seem to be coexisting reasonably well, but there was a chance they'd end up spraying more than just the wood under their cages--so it all got painted. It's not a perfect solution, but it's better than raw wood.
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