Rabbit pregnancy

[fuzzybabymomma]

My Rabbit had a litter 10 weeks ago. They all died except for one. She has since been isolated with the new born for the past 10 weeks in a garage in a rabbit hutch away from the other animals. When I got home yesterday, she had given birth to 6 kits. She hasn't left that garage in 10 weeks. There were no other rabbits remotely near her, not in the garage. I have no idea how it is even possible for her to have had babies again. Has anyone else experienced this?

 

[CochinBrahmaLover]

It's because her kit is a buck whose 10 weeks old.

You should've separated them at around 6 weeks to prevent this from happening.
She's probably pregnant again, so remove them immediately

 

[bigredshaverhen]

My sister and i own a rabbitry and I would suggest that u take out all bucks at 6 weeks of age so that u don't get any more

 

[fuzzybabymomma]

The kit is female. She is no longer with that kit. She's with her new litter.

 

[fuzzybabymomma]

And she is the only rabbit I have at home with me right now.

 

[nayeli]

Are you POSITIVE the kit is female? I mean some male rabbit had to have gotten to her to get her pregnant..

 

[CochinBrahmaLover]

Its obviously not a girl. The new kits prove this


Sorry this may've been a bit harsh... But if you're 100% sure that your old rabbit hasn't had any contact with other rabbits than the other explanation is the sex change fairy came around

 

[SternRose]

Young bucks can look like does to a un trained eye. I can tell a buck from a doe at the age of 1 and 1/2 weeks. Young ducks can suck in the testicals and the testies could have not have " shown" yet, was this "doe" with 2 pink spots by her vagina? Or red spots?

 

[Bunnylady]

It's because her kit is a buck whose 10 weeks old.

You should've separated them at around 6 weeks to prevent this from happening.
She's probably pregnant again, so remove them immediately

The kit is only now 10 weeks old - even if it is a buck, it would have had to have sired this litter at about 5 1/2 weeks of age, for them to be born when it is 10 weeks.

Rabbits can do a thing called "delayed implantation." Eggs are released and fertilized, but they don't implant and grow until some time later (I think the longest time known was something like 6 months).

There have also been cases of rabbits that are apparently hermaphrodites (having the organs of both male and female). There is a poster on BYH who has a rabbit that has repeatedly had litters born 2 or 3 months after the last known exposure to a buck, often while the previous litter is barely old enough to wean (no way are you going to tell me that a young buck bred his mom at birth!)

 

[cassie]

The kit is only now 10 weeks old - even if it is a buck, it would have had to have sired this litter at about 5 1/2 weeks of age, for them to be born when it is 10 weeks.

Rabbits can do a thing called "delayed implantation." Eggs are released and fertilized, but they don't implant and grow until some time later (I think the longest time known was something like 6 months).

There have also been cases of rabbits that are apparently hermaphrodites (having the organs of both male and female). There is a poster on BYH who has a rabbit that has repeatedly had litters born 2 or 3 months after the last known exposure to a buck, often while the previous litter is barely old enough to wean (no way are you going to tell me that a young buck bred his mom at birth!)

Hermaphrodtes are found in all species of mammals. But they cannot self fertilize even if they are fertile. And most of the time they are not.