I NEED HElP

[Chick Chicken Egg Eater23]

Welcome to backyard chickens. Some members here have rabbits too. FYI, We have a sister site at Backyardherd.com, you'll find a lot of rabbit folks there.[/QUOTE
thanks will check it out

 

[Bunnylady]

I could go out to my rabbitry and get at least a dozen pics of rabbits that have loose fur on their backsides, none of which are pregnant, some of them are MALE. I don't know where this business about loose fur and pregnancy started, but it's nonsense.

 

[cassie]

I have a buck rabbit that is the same breed as my doe but when he goes to breed her he misses every time, is there anyway I can help prevent this??

Are you SURE he is missing? If you don't know how to palpate a doe, you should learn.

 

[cassie]

I could go out to my rabbitry and get at least a dozen pics of rabbits that have loose fur on their backsides, none of which are pregnant, some of them are MALE. I don't know where this business about loose fur and pregnancy started, but it's nonsense.

I think I might be able to answer that. People confuse correlation and causation. Meaning just because two things occur in close proximity, it does not mean one causes the other. I think maybe a person noticed loose fur on the backside of a rabbit that turned out to be pregnant, and then came to the conclusion that the loose hair was a sign of pregnancy and ignored all the other rabbits with loose hair that were not.

 

[Bunnylady]

I think I might be able to answer that. People confuse correlation and causation. Meaning just because two things occur in close proximity, it does not mean one causes the other. I think maybe a person noticed loose fur on the backside of a rabbit that turned out to be pregnant, and then came to the conclusion that the loose hair was a sign of pregnancy and ignored all the other rabbits with loose hair that were not.

But it's weird - things like this seem to come in clusters. Less than a week ago, someone on another thread posted something about a rabbit that they thought was pregnant, and made noises like the loose fur on her backside was somehow supposed to be a sign of that. When they posted a picture of the rabbit, she clearly had loose fur on her shoulders, too - the rabbit had done an incomplete molt, so her coat was of different lengths. Same piece of misinformation twice in a few days - suggestive of a pattern?

 

[Chick Chicken Egg Eater23]

I think I might be able to answer that. People confuse correlation and causation. Meaning just because two things occur in close proximity, it does not mean one causes the other. I think maybe a person noticed loose fur on the backside of a rabbit that turned out to be pregnant, and then came to the conclusion that the loose hair was a sign of pregnancy and ignored all the other rabbits with loose hair that were not.

i do agree with this just because it happened once dont mean it will happen again

 

[Chick Chicken Egg Eater23]

Are you SURE he is missing? If you don't know how to palpate a doe, you should learn.

I have tried just cant quite figure it out, but somewhere around the second week of December I had left her in with him overnight to see if that may have helped and tried to breed again today and neither was interested in each other

 

[Chick Chicken Egg Eater23]

Are you SURE he is missing? If you don't know how to palpate a doe, you should learn.

if you consider getting it all over her back a miss then yes

 

[Chick Chicken Egg Eater23]

I could go out to my rabbitry and get at least a dozen pics of rabbits that have loose fur on their backsides, none of which are pregnant, some of them are MALE. I don't know where this business about loose fur and pregnancy started, but it's nonsense.

don't know she may of just been shedding around the time she was gonna give birth

 

[Chick Chicken Egg Eater23]

another quick question, I do believe my buck is new to breeding so will that have anything to do with him having trouble breeding her