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[SternRose]

Well, we're down to 3 babies. From 6 to 3. Sad to see them go, but it was so fun to watch them grow! We'll be keeping one, a frosty Holland lop, from the litters. 

It's sad to see them leave. But glad there gone lol.

 

[farm n louisana]

Once a male breed wit the female will he keep trying to mate her r will he stop I have my male n female together right now the first day he mated wit her since then he never tried again I'm working on building them a bigger pen so that's y there together for now

 

[cassie]

Most people just put the doe in the buck's pen and then remove her after he has bred her once or twice. There is nothing to be gained by leaving them together.

 

[Angelicisi]

I would keep the buck separate. They may get along but he will breed her regularly (even if you don't see him) and she may get tired of him. In the event she does get annoyed she could injure him or worse bobitt him making him useless as a breeder.

She will get grumpier the closer to kindling she gets

Once a male breed wit the female will he keep trying to mate her r will he stop I have my male n female together right now the first day he mated wit her since then he never tried again I'm working on building them a bigger pen so that's y there together for now

 

[Bunnylady]

In the event she does get annoyed she could injure him or worse bobitt him making him useless as a breeder.

This happened with a pair of American Fuzzy Lops owned by a friend of mine. The doe (Thumbelina) wasn't already bred, she just didn't want to breed. After the incident, the doe's name was changed to "Thumbelina Bobbitt." The buck's name was Samson; but it wasn't just his hair that got cut!

I sometimes colony breed older rabbits, but I always put at least 3 does in the pen with the buck. That spreads the buck's attention around and makes it less likely that one doe will get this ill with him. Any time you have rabbits living together, you must watch for signs of aggression. I have had does in colonies that I had to remove because they were beating up the other does, and I have sometimes had to remove the buck because he got nasty with the does after a few days.

 

[Angelicisi]

Observation is key...everyones got different temperaments of bunnies. Observation helps catch issues early.

This happened with a pair of American Fuzzy Lops owned by a friend of mine. The doe (Thumbelina) wasn't already bred, she just didn't want to breed. After the incident, the doe's name was changed to "Thumbelina Bobbitt." The buck's name was Samson; but it wasn't just his hair that got cut!  

I sometimes colony breed older rabbits, but I always put at least 3 does in the pen with the buck. That spreads the buck's attention around and makes it less likely that one doe will get this ill with him.  Any time you have rabbits living together, you must watch for signs of aggression. I have had does in colonies that I had to remove because they were beating up the other does, and I have sometimes had to remove the buck because he got nasty with the does after a few days.

 

[kacklinkelly]

Our two does have been together since birth (I'm told). We got them at 5 weeks and They are 7 months old now. They went through a "sorting out" period, chasing each other, mounting, pulling each others fur while mounting, and now it has pretty much stopped. I would separate them when I saw it. We would also let them out of the cage and gave them full run of the back yard. They always ended up side by side. We have since expanded the cage and introduced toys. They seem to have settled down and possibly grown out of it. Is that likely. These are our first rabbits and we are learning a lot.

 

[farm n louisana]

Y would a rabbit eat one of the babies

 

[OzarkCountryGirl]

Y would a rabbit eat one of the babies

While it's not a common occurrence, it's not really all that rare either. For example if the baby had something wrong with it that we mere humans were unable to detect, or she was undergoing stress like from a rat, dog, cat, snake, or something hanging around her cage at night, or the number of babies are way too many for her to feed (a doe typically has 8 teats, so if she has 14 kits, someone is going to bed hungry). But sometimes it's just the way she is. Hopefully it's only the one. However if she ends up killing all or most of her litter, I would still give her another chance. But then if she did it again to the next one, I'd cull her.

I had a standard chinchilla doe that occasionally threw a white kit and without fail, she would kill the white kit if I didn't quickly remove it from the litter and foster it on to another doe. She was a great mom otherwise, and would generally produce a large number of babies, so I kept her. It's like she knew she wasn't supposed to be having white babies. I always make sure a doe that tends to have a smaller number of kits is always bred at the same time as one that tends to have a larger number of kits, just in case I need to foster any.

 

[dutchbunny83]

My little farmer out talking to her rabbits