12 Baby Bunnies!!!

[chickens really]

Bunny Boy and her babies are beautiful!

I have have a herd of selectively bred meat mutts. I am breeding and selecting for traits of fast growout rate on natural fodder, larger size than average but maintaining a good meat to bone ratio, good fur quality, litter size and general hardiness.

My current breeding program is in it's infantile stages and might appear to a serious pedigree rabbit breeder to be willy-nily right now, but it's my goal to create a herd of very hardy, adaptable rabbits that is uniform in size, body type, and fur quality but comes in all colors of the rabbit rainbow spectrum... The ultimate multipurpose homesteader's rabbit.

I used to raise commercial REW New Zealands and Californians when I was a teenager for 4H and FFA, and color genics was not something I got to play with... So right now I'm having a lot of fun with all of the colors I am finding in my nest boxes and filling in the recessive blanks in my genotype puzzles!

@gokittygo raises show rabbits. Maybe she will pop in?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Just a thought, but I'm not experienced enough to say it would work or be a good idea, but maybe if you break up the group into two and swap them out, perhaps they would also get enough to eat.

My doe had 9 kits, but only 8 were getting food. On day 3 I decided to hold her over the one falling behind so it could nurse and it was enough to get him going. I did it for a couple of days, than I stopped. He caught right up to the rest eventually. Too bad you don't have another doe to give some to.

 

[MotherOfPeepPeeps]

Just a thought, but I'm not experienced enough to say it would work or be a good idea, but maybe if you break up the group into two and swap them out, perhaps they would also get enough to eat.

My doe had 9 kits, but only 8 were getting food. On day 3 I decided to hold her over the one falling behind so it could nurse and it was enough to get him going. I did it for a couple of days, than I stopped. He caught right up to the rest eventually. Too bad you don't have another doe to give some to.

I have two tiny litters that are 2-1/2 weeks old... I was wondering if I could combine the two litters and give a few of the new babies to the other mama? Do you think that she would accept them being that they are so much smaller than her kits?

 

[chickens really]

I was told Rabbits don't care..

 

[MotherOfPeepPeeps]

I was told Rabbits don't care..

I have done foster situations before, I just don't know how a doe would react to all babies that are not her own and to such a big size difference.

I'm thinking I should give them one more day and let there be a clearer idea of who is lagging behind. That way I can pull some of the bigger hogs that I know got plenty of colostrum off and put them with the foster mamma so the little ones can catch up.

 

[chickens really]

I have done foster situations before, I just don't know how a doe would react to all babies that are not her own and to such a big size difference.

I'm thinking I should give them one more day and let there be a clearer idea of who is lagging behind. That way I can pull some of the bigger hogs that I know got plenty of colostrum off and put them with the foster mamma so the little ones can catch up.

Couldn't you split the litter being some Momma rabbits feed twice a day? Mine did. If she feeds twice you could have her feed both litters...

 

[chickens really]

My Pal wanted to take some of Bunny Boys babies to put with a doe he had nursing but I wouldn't let him..I don't know what actually works?...

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I have two tiny litters that are 2-1/2 weeks old... I was wondering if I could combine the two litters and give a few of the new babies to the other mama? Do you think that she would accept them being that they are so much smaller than her kits?

I'm not experienced enough to answer this. Most of what I did was trial and error with rabbits as there's lots of information out there but not a lot for atypical stuff. I probably would try it if babies start to fail. I was ready to let nature take it's course with my runt bunny, but I just couldn't do it, so I figured out how to get it fed. I'm definitely interested in how this all turns out.

 

[MotherOfPeepPeeps]

I'm not experienced enough to answer this. Most of what I did was trial and error with rabbits as there's lots of information out there but not a lot for atypical stuff. I probably would try it if babies start to fail. I was ready to let nature take it's course with my runt bunny, but I just couldn't do it, so I figured out how to get it fed. I'm definitely interested in how this all turns out.

Unfortunately, Posey was not too keen on the idea of taking Munchkin's babies, so I am scrapping that idea.

 

[chickens really]

Unfortunately, Posey was not too keen on the idea of taking Munchkin's babies, so I am scrapping that idea.

Crappy.......