So, I am curious if anyone else has had this happen. Sunday I bread my 5-1/2 month old buck to my doe. He was in the cage with her about 10 minutes and I think he sucessfully mounthed her 9 or 10 times. I've never had a buck get soo involved. We left to go to a crawfish boil and when we came home, it was aparent that my sweet boy had been dead since shortly after we left. He had plenty of shade/water/and appeared otherwise healthy. Any ideas?????
I suppose the death of any of God's creatures is always somewhat disturbing and a quick reminder of all of our mortality. I did put the buck in with the doe. It could have been much less than ten minutes but I am certain that it was not more as I was brewing a pot of coffee and it takes 2 minutes. He has always been a high strung buck, as if he never can settle down. He was removed from the does cage and placed back into his own. I just don't know why my seemingly perfectly healthy boy went down. I think he just got too worked up and didn't calm/cool down quick enough. I've been breeding rabbits for only a few years but found it soo different than anything before. Perhaps he was ill and was hiding it well and the breeding just pushed him over the edge....
