Oh, they'll be fine then. It's mostly the neatherland dwarfs that you need to be careful with because even nominated ones have problems rather often
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We don’t own any guns so if anything does go wrong freezer camp it isI honestly send them to freezer camp. They're usually still new enough that they don't know what's going on. If they're teens or older, we usually use a bullet.
In 20 years of rabbit keeping, I've never had a kit born naturally deformed that didn't die on its own or be killed by the mother within a day. The only time I've had to put a tiny kit down is when sometimes a doe will bite one, leaving it with 3 legs or something (gruesome, I know). The fastest and most humane way for them is a hammer. The easiest way for you is to put them in a small container and put it in the freezer.Ok, if the kits are deformed or something what would be the fasted and most humane way to cull them?
rabbits are NOT RODENTS just an fyiIt won't hurt them at all. Rabbits naturally inbreed in the wild constantly. Most rodents do.
Do you know how they develop laboratory strains? You breed brother to sister for 20 generations and by then they are all genetic clones of each other.
What you have to worry about with rabbits isn't inbreeding, it's stress. Any little thing will set them off and they eat the babies. Literally yesterday I ha a doe give birth in the wire floor of the cage, where the babies were sure to get chilled and die. I put some hay under them (because I know better than to try to move them to a nest box if she didn't want it) but even that was too much and this morning they were gone.
Don't examine them at birth! Its too easy for you to stress her and she'll kill them. Don't get attached or really even look at them until they are fully furred and coming out of the nest box. Just keep Momma's routine intact and everything as stress free as possible.
rabbits are NOT RODENTS just an fyi