Our neighbor called at the end of September, said someone had dumped two rabbits out at their church. She knew I had two and thought we would take good care of them.
My husband took a live trap and placed it...by the morning of day two he had the doe and within 2 hours had the buck.
No idea what breed they are. Doe's fur was in terrible shape, very dry, matted and yellowed...not sure if she had been in a cage where she was sleeping in her own urine or what. I brushed her several times and now she is nearly solid white with a few black hairs here and there. The buck is much smaller, white with dark gray/blue? around his eyes and few spots on his back, appears to have a lil bit of light brown at base of his ears.
When my husband brought the doe home he said the buck was trying to mount her so I knew she might be pregnant.
Well, this morning when I went out to feed and water, it looked like something had attack her in her hutch...fur everywhere! Yep, she had pulled lots of fur during the night so I got a cardboard box and gathered as much of the fur as I could and put it in her hutch...she got in the box right away. My husband had just left the house so I called and told him to pick up some pine shavings to add to the fur (don't have any hay or straw). How long before she gives birth?
It has been decades since my son had rabbits for 4-H. Someone please refresh my poor memory about how to care for the doe and her kits.
My husband took a live trap and placed it...by the morning of day two he had the doe and within 2 hours had the buck.
No idea what breed they are. Doe's fur was in terrible shape, very dry, matted and yellowed...not sure if she had been in a cage where she was sleeping in her own urine or what. I brushed her several times and now she is nearly solid white with a few black hairs here and there. The buck is much smaller, white with dark gray/blue? around his eyes and few spots on his back, appears to have a lil bit of light brown at base of his ears.
When my husband brought the doe home he said the buck was trying to mount her so I knew she might be pregnant.
Well, this morning when I went out to feed and water, it looked like something had attack her in her hutch...fur everywhere! Yep, she had pulled lots of fur during the night so I got a cardboard box and gathered as much of the fur as I could and put it in her hutch...she got in the box right away. My husband had just left the house so I called and told him to pick up some pine shavings to add to the fur (don't have any hay or straw). How long before she gives birth?
It has been decades since my son had rabbits for 4-H. Someone please refresh my poor memory about how to care for the doe and her kits.