12 Baby Bunnies!!!

[gokittygo]

I have a couple does that regularly have 9-12 kits, they do just fine. I keep an eye on full tummies and if it seems like she’s having a hard time (very rare and they usually catch up), I’ll foster them to another doe, it’s rough when your back up doesn’t take.

Edited to add: 2 weeks is too much difference in age to combine a litter. 3-5 days is ideal.

 

[chickens really]

I have a couple does that regularly have 9-12 kits, they do just fine. I keep an eye on full tummies and if it seems like she’s having a hard time (very rare and they usually catch up), I’ll foster them to another doe, it’s rough when your back up doesn’t take.

Edited to add: 2 weeks is too much difference in age to combine a litter. 3-5 days is ideal.

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[gokittygo]

While I’m thinking of it-when you have a brood doe on a big litter, you need to increase her feed ration on day 3, that’s when the actual milk has come in and they need the extra calories. My mommas get a half cup of old-fashioned rolled oats (uncooked people oatmeal, not instant) double pellets minimum 17% protein, and I like to give dandelion and spinach the day of delivery to help build them back up from blood loss and encourage healing..

I’m not an expert but I’ve been breeding several years and successfully raised dozens of babies.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I read to add some black oil sunflower seeds too to help with milk production.

 

[MotherOfPeepPeeps]

View attachment 1609807 While I’m thinking of it-when you have a brood doe on a big litter, you need to increase her feed ration on day 3, that’s when the actual milk has come in and they need the extra calories. My mommas get a half cup of old-fashioned rolled oats (uncooked people oatmeal, not instant) double pellets minimum 17% protein, and I like to give dandelion and spinach the day of delivery to help build them back up from blood loss and encourage healing..

I’m not an expert but I’ve been breeding several years and successfully raised dozens of babies.

I feed a winter conditioning mix to my whole herd since they are not kept in a heated building.

I mix my feed in an old Tidy Cat bucket. The scoop I use is a two cup scoop. I add two heaping scoops of 18% pellets, 3/4 scoop BOSS, 1/2 scoop steamed crimped oats, 1/4 scoop chicken scratch grains; and I repeat until the bucket is full.

In addition to that mix, they also receive free choice mixed grass hay in their manger and I toss a compressed alfalfa/timothy cube in every two or three days (or hower long it takes them to finish it).

I usually keep an ear of dried cob corn in there too, that they usually mostly just play with. They'll gnaw on it a little bit, but most of it falls through the cage floor to encourage my chickens to scratch through their mess and clean up bugs while they are at it. I'll give them an apple slice or a chunk of carrot about twice a week too.

In they summer they eat mostly cut and carry greens, except for nursing does and future fryers who still get the conditioning mix.

 

[MotherOfPeepPeeps]

View attachment 1609807 While I’m thinking of it-when you have a brood doe on a big litter, you need to increase her feed ration on day 3, that’s when the actual milk has come in and they need the extra calories. My mommas get a half cup of old-fashioned rolled oats (uncooked people oatmeal, not instant) double pellets minimum 17% protein, and I like to give dandelion and spinach the day of delivery to help build them back up from blood loss and encourage healing..

I’m not an expert but I’ve been breeding several years and successfully raised dozens of babies.

Your litter is adorable! When we're they born?

 

[gokittygo]

Your litter is adorable! When we're they born?

Thanks!
These kits were born 8 weeks ago, I really need to take current pictures. (Satin angoras)

 

[N F C]

View attachment 1609807 While I’m thinking of it-when you have a brood doe on a big litter, you need to increase her feed ration on day 3, that’s when the actual milk has come in and they need the extra calories. My mommas get a half cup of old-fashioned rolled oats (uncooked people oatmeal, not instant) double pellets minimum 17% protein, and I like to give dandelion and spinach the day of delivery to help build them back up from blood loss and encourage healing..

I’m not an expert but I’ve been breeding several years and successfully raised dozens of babies.

Nice looking babies! Hope you'll share some more recent pictures!

 

[MotherOfPeepPeeps]

Thanks!
These kits were born 8 weeks ago, I really need to take current pictures. (Satin angoras)

Please share more pics! Ones of mom and dad too!

I have been looking for a pair of satin or French Angoras for a while now, but it seems like not very many people raise them in my neck of the woods.

 

[gokittygo]

Please share more pics! Ones of mom and dad too!

I have been looking for a pair of satin or French Angoras for a while now, but it seems like not very many people raise them in my neck of the woods.

If you’re on Facebook, join Satin Angora Breeders and/or National Angora Rabbit Breeders (I’m sure there are French groups too)
Depending on where in Mo you are, I know there are breeders in Iowa, Illinois, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee.

Also look for breeders listed on www.arba.net