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[PrimroseMom1]

Acceptance is a big part of raising rabbits. When we breed our rabbits, we litterally toss the dice and hope for the best. We do certain things to make sure everything goes our way but it is just going to be what the pips read when they stop moving. Without acceptance it can drive a person batty. The rabbits might breed just fine, or they might not or they might get into a big fight or the doe might bite off and neuter an insistant male. The breeding may never take, the buck could be infertile, the doe could have too much fat around her organs, the moon might be out of phase, the doe might reabsorb the kits in the first week... They may have 12 healthy kits and raise them out, they may have the first kit get stuck and they die or anything inbetween. The fact is that once we choose the date and put the doe in with the buck everything else is pretty much out of our hands! And every once in a while we roll craps and we loose. We just gotta keep looking forward to the times when the dice land on our numbers!

Earless and its littermates all passed away. Soup, my mom who was due the same week as my other doe had her first litter... She had the same problem (over cleaning) and I only found half of a kit in her cage, nest made but not used. She just didn't know what to do.

In better news, Lucy my rescue rabbit who is like 3 yrs old is probably the best mom we have eve had. Her litter of four is huge and healthy. They are freindly and Lucy herself is proving to be smart and considerate, doing things like moving to the second water bottle or food bowl instead of fighting her kits for the first one! She is a great mom!

Sorry to hear about the kits.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

It is ok. I don't let it get me down for long first time moms do poorly and we had good luck with first time moms for quite a while... It was about time for something to go wrong TBH. The moms will be re bred in a week or so and they should do better the next time around. Meanwhile I have 3 does I bred recently and should get three healthy litters in the end! All of them are experienced moms and bred well!

 

[insanity]

Just got home with a pair of mini lops. An albino buck and a black tipped silver doe.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Just got home with a pair of mini lops. An albino buck and a black tipped silver doe.

Fotos please.

 

[insanity]

It's late here. I'll post tomorrow.

 

[Lynzi777]

Think I finally just my sable point doe bred. I've only been trying her with my buck for months now. She wouldn't have it. Should I put her in with him again tomorrow morning to be sure? Or even again this evening before I consider it a "done deal"?

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Some people see no difference one way or another. Personally, I like to breed mine, then breed again within 18 hours. My rabbits tend to take more often that way. I don't do after 18 hours any more since my rabbits would start giving birth in the morning, wait several hours, and then start again in the evening if I did 20-36 hours. 9_9; I'd have a litter of kits half of them 12 hours older and it was REALLY obvious in the first few days which were which until about a week when they all evened out... Mostly it was just a pain for counting since they'd be done, and the next morning I'd find 2-4 more kits... But every rabbit is different.

 

[Lynzi777]

Some people see no difference one way or another. Personally, I like to breed mine, then breed again within 18 hours. My rabbits tend to take more often that way. I don't do after 18 hours any more since my rabbits would start giving birth in the morning, wait several hours, and then start again in the evening if I did 20-36 hours. 9_9; I'd have a litter of kits half of them 12 hours older and it was REALLY obvious in the first few days which were which until about a week when they all evened out... Mostly it was just a pain for counting since they'd be done, and the next morning I'd find 2-4 more kits... But every rabbit is different.

Thanks! I DID place her back in there again tonight and he was able to breed to her again. I bred my Harlie doe last weekend and put her in the cage tonight for about 5 seconds and she grunted right away so now I know she's pregnant. Took her right out and she should kindle March 16th or so. It's always so easy with her because the last two litters she had, when I bred her she took to it right away, I always put her back in a day or two later and if she grunts at him she's pregnant and I take her right out. I never leave them and walk away. I always stay out there with them so I can actually see if the doe accepted and the buck "fell off" and lately no one has been accepting.

 

[chicken farmer]

I got my first rabbit today a new zealand white buck,he had a bad past and was almost all brown,toenails so long they curled back to his paws,his cage was infested with cockroaches,and they said he use to flinch but now he's use to being petted and obviously they got him all cleaned up and they gave him to me free.(Someone else got him from the house he was neglected at and they cleaned him up and gave him to me free). And as soon as I put him in the hutch he ate and drank and checked out the hutch and than he sat down and closed his eyes and rested.And loved the few pieces of grass I picked for him but soon I'm gonna build a big hutch and split it down the middle and have the buck and doe on each side of the hutch and do some breeding.But he is settling in real well and I love him,can't wait to get a new zealand white doe!!!

 

[mindylee]

So glad to here he found you!