How to determine rabbit gender...With pictures

I have 2 bunnies and I’ve been told they are both female. Recently the older one of the 2 started to do some sexual doggy style motions to the other one. They are both roughly 4 month old. Do these both look female?
 

Attachments

  • E9BDAF2A-589D-4D49-B9F1-14E06406E950.jpeg
    E9BDAF2A-589D-4D49-B9F1-14E06406E950.jpeg
    161.7 KB · Views: 162
  • 7DBFC912-1858-4325-8E5B-735BC6F3DD6D.jpeg
    7DBFC912-1858-4325-8E5B-735BC6F3DD6D.jpeg
    96.1 KB · Views: 163
Depends on the buck. Usually a year old is a safe bet, but the males can also pull their testes into their bodies to protect them, so sometimes you can't tell that way regardless of age since females will also have bald sections beside their reproductive organs as well. The males will, however have a 'shaft' usually by 4 months old:

You can see there's a visual protrusion with this 4 month old.
Where do I send my pics? I don't know how but I am so confused.
 
It's not as easy as you might think to sex a rabbit. Even experienced breeders can and do make mistakes in determining male from female. I've been checking rabbit bottoms for genders for about 20 years and am very rarely wrong.
I normally don't bother checking until 2-3 weeks old, some can and do check earlier, but I've never seen much point in finding out before ~3 weeks personally and I always check again later on.

All the rabbits in these pictures have their tails at the bottom of the picture. I use my forefinger to hold the tail out of the way and use my thumb to pull the fur/flesh away from the genital region to reveal the organ.

Here's a 3 week old Male and Female in that order. The male's pic is a little blurry, but you can see that below my thumb is clearly a circle - boy.

The female here has a slit rather than a circle.


6 week old Male and Female in that order. More obvious at this age, right? Male is a circle (ignore his big bum, he's about to drop a berry).

It's shaded, but you can clearly see that the female here has a slit, very unlike the male above.


If you can't figure out your rabbits based on these pictures, feel free to post pics - the clearer the better - and I or other rabbit breeders on the forum can help out
smile.png
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom