it was her very first litter and she only gave birth to one he was born on the 31st day of the gestational period but she is Luke 10 lbs now. She she conceived she was around 7 lbs baby is now 3 weeks old and doing wonderfulEven the babies of New Zealands are typically only about 3-4 inches long at birth (maybe half again the size of a Netherland Dwarf baby). As I recall, your little guy was the only kit in his litter. When a doe conceives only one or two kits in a litter, they tend to go a few days past the normal gestation, and grow a good bit bigger. Typically, birthing these babies is such a laborious process, they don't survive. He was an unusually large kit because of his "singleton" status, and he's a very lucky little rabbit to be alive!