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Well, momma's feeding that little tort well - it's a chunk! Congrats on the litter and the good mother!

This is typical rabbit pregnancy behavior. Litter size influences how long a rabbit carries the kits and how big the kits grow. Litters of 1 or 2 kits often get carried to day 34 or 35, by which time the kits are usually huge, and the birth process takes so long they rarely survive. IME, it's...

Quote: I sincerely doubt it. I have raised rabbits of several breeds and many colors for over 30 years , and have never seen any correlation between temperament and color. In fact, one of the friendliest and one of the nastiest rabbits I have ever owned were both REW Netherland Dwarf bucks. For...

I'm sorry you lost the little guy. I've only had that type of injury happen a few times. Once, a little girl dropped a rabbit; it couldn't have fallen more than 30 inches to the dirt floor, but that's all it took. The floor in my rabbitry is sand because of that - it's annoying when it gets in...

Blue is recessive to black; the theoretical odds of getting a blue kit from two black parents that are carrying blue is 1:4. Of course, that's just theory. IME, the odds of getting a color seem to be inversely proportional to your desire to see it. Just one more way they try to see "how can we...

As you know, rabbits don't do "heat" cycles like a lot of animals do, but they do have hormonal peaks and valleys. One of the highest peaks a doe will ever have happens right after she kindles. If she breeds then, she will likely conceive the largest litter she is capable of producing. For this...

I'm sorry you lost them. That's rabbits for ya. I met a guy at a rabbit show once that told about getting his first pair of rabbits many years before. He said, "at the end of a year, guess how many I had?" Sensing a trick question, I refused to "bite," so eventually he told me - "one. The...

If good mothering instincts are given priority when selecting breeding animals, you generally get does that do the things they are supposed to do. But since we often have other things in mind when we make our choices, we can get animals that are totally clueless (obviously, a junior doe has no...