What Rabbits Do You Have? Show Off Your Rabbits Here!

[Bunnylady]

I don't remember if you said, Orps - what is Abby bred to?

 

[Orpingtons4U]

Lol her and her brother have turned nice now I can't wait to show them two and there mom and uncle

 

[Bunnylady]

Lol her and her brother have turned nice now I can't wait to show them two and there mom and uncle

So you have a whole line of BEW's?

 

[Orpingtons4U]

So you have a whole line of BEW's?

yeah

 

[kimmerjo]

I have two REW babies!

 

[SternRose]

Anyone close to Kansas have bew mini rexes?

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: I had a friend who was just nuts about BEW's and Chocolates. She raised Jersey Woolies, Netherland Dwarfs, Holland Lops, and Fuzzy Lops, and had Chocolate and/or BEW lines in all of them. One time, when she learned that I was going to a show halfway across the state, she asked me if I could pick up a couple of rabbits for her from a breeder that she knew but I didn't. Sure, no problem. When the breeder and I found each other at the show (anyone who has been to a show knows what I mean), I learned that the two "rabbits" that I was picking up were 3 days old! They were chubby little babies, a BEW and a VM, tucked up nice and snug in a little cardboard box with some hay and a lot of fur. It seems that my friend had had a doe kindle on the same day as this litter was born; these two were going to be fostered with her litter. We put the box in a spot in a carrier where it wouldn't be disturbed, and went on with our show. The only complication was that I had to be sure to get them back to my friend's place in time for the evening feeding, which I did.

The VM turned out not so hot; I think it got sold as a pet. The BEW buck wound up very nice though, and became her principle herd sire.

Rabbit people are crazy!

 

[dutchbunny83]

Thanks everyone for your help!
I lost all the babies

We weren't ready for them at all, they were a total surprise.

I am going to breed my NZW's, so we will be prepared this time with the proper set up.

Question-- has anyone ever let their bunnies have babies under ground? Mine have houses like this--



That open into their run, which is a fenced area 12' long by about 8' wide. I have livestock fencing buried 1ft below the ground to keep them from digging out or a predator from digging in (though we don't have many predators in town, maybe a possum every now & then, but they are usually more into eating my animals' food than my actual animals).

ANYWAY, my one rabbit has dug out a tunnel with a little cave that she sleeps in maybe 6" down. It's still above the fencing. I worry it's going to cave in on her or that when she does get pregnant she will have babies in this hole. I tried to fill it in, but she just dug it out again. I hate the idea of keeping them in little wire floored hutches, but obviously want them to be safe...

Oh, also... I have 2 set ups like this, one side has 2 boys the other side has my 3 girls. They all get along & keep them separate so they don't over-breed, but this is an okay set up, right?

 

[insanity]

Dutchbunny,
I run a similar setup. A pair of french lops in an 8X8 dirt floor kennel run. They dig short burrows all the time. When my doe had her first litter she chose to kindle in the doghouse.As for cave ins mine haven't seemed to have any trouble, usually the holes hold, the few that have fallen in they just dugout of it( a little dirty but not hurt). The dirt floor did not work well for my mini lops. They are digging fools and kept getting out even with buried fencing so they are now in a 10x10 cement floored kennel with assorted boxes and hay bales to tunnel with. A lot of people frown on housing pairs/multiple rabbits together all the time but it is working for me.If your pens are working for you I'd say they sound fine.

 

[ChirpChickens]

Thanks everyone for your help!
I lost all the babies

We weren't ready for them at all, they were a total surprise.

I am going to breed my NZW's, so we will be prepared this time with the proper set up.

Question-- has anyone ever let their bunnies have babies under ground? Mine have houses like this--



That open into their run, which is a fenced area 12' long by about 8' wide. I have livestock fencing buried 1ft below the ground to keep them from digging out or a predator from digging in (though we don't have many predators in town, maybe a possum every now & then, but they are usually more into eating my animals' food than my actual animals).

ANYWAY, my one rabbit has dug out a tunnel with a little cave that she sleeps in maybe 6" down. It's still above the fencing. I worry it's going to cave in on her or that when she does get pregnant she will have babies in this hole. I tried to fill it in, but she just dug it out again. I hate the idea of keeping them in little wire floored hutches, but obviously want them to be safe...

Oh, also... I have 2 set ups like this, one side has 2 boys the other side has my 3 girls. They all get along & keep them separate so they don't over-breed, but this is an okay set up, right?

When I was a kid I had a really pretty rabbit and I was just CONVINCED she was pregnant, but my mom didn't believe me. She was a free-ranged rabbit and had the whole yard to herself. Well a couple months later, we found our cat with a baby bunny in it's mouth! And the rabbit wasn't a newborn, it was maybe a month and a half old, and we looked around the yard to find that she DID have babies but they were underground! (the one in the cat's mouth lived, btw) so she had her's underground and was fine, although besides when she had some behind the wood pile, it's always been in their hutch. (hope you can figure it out!)