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[peekapig]

Sometimes they get scared. Sometimes they just dont know what they are doing when it is their first time. It is really sad when this happens. As a breeder we say try 3 times before giving up on the doe.

 

[shadow rabbit10]

I raise rabbits for show, pets, meat and 4-H. The kids and I have Netherlands and Satins. We are thinking of getting out of the satins and getting a couple himis instead. I truly enjoy the netherlands. They are so cute and adorable. And sweet too. I know alot of people say they can be mean, but the only time I have had an issue is when one is touchy during pregnancy. We have blue eyed whites, VM's, chestnut, and a himi. This is a very funny pic of a baby yawning!

Lol! Love it!

 

[shadow rabbit10]

Well my holland lop doe have birth to 6 kits and rejected them ALL! Found all 6 dead in the cage, out of the nestbox Saturday afternoon. I was devastated. Cried about, was angry about, but in the meantime I had a new coop to build to help keep my mind off of it. Just so upsetting. Especially when you wait and wait and wait. It was her first litter but still, there were 6! All are gone, they definitely would have had some nice coloring, 3 possibly harlequins, 3 darker ones. I'm still upset over it. Not sure if/when I'll breed her again.

I'm sorry. That's a shame. As peekapig said, sometimes they just don't know what to do.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Hi, I got my first two bunnies a few months ago. Two does. They were born on December 26, so they are about 4 1/2 months old. They are not very cuddily and hard to catch. I wouldn't call them "tame." Is there still hope that they will get tame?

I don't know the breed. They are not lop ear. One is brown and look like peter rabbit and the other is black with some random white hairs. They are litter mates. They are large and long. Sometimes they growl if we are trying to pick them up and one nipped my granddaughter (9 years old). Once I pick them up and sit and scratch their head and talk to them, they seem fine. I'll post some fotos later. They live in a big hutch in the middle of my fenced chicken yard and sometimes I let them out during the day and always put them up at night. I leave the hutch open when they are out for them to go in when they want to.

Some questions:

1. What can I do for them to be more tame?

2. Should I have them fixed? I do not plan to breed them.

3. They "hump" each other in a very serious way sometimes, is that normal?

4. Would getting them fixed make them sweeter?

5. Will they get better aoubt us catching them when they are older or fixed?

Thanks to all you rabbit people. I really love my bunnies. Their names are Rosie and Lulu.\

 

[PoultryPower]

So, I'm really worried about one of my kits. He sits in the back of the nest box all day, while his sister is coming out of the box now. When I looked at his bottom, he had a yellowish, brown discharge coming out. When I looked at his boy part, it was swollen and when I pressed it, white..pus?..came out. What can I do for this poor little guy? He just turned 3 weeks old.

 

[SA Farm]

Hi, I got my first two bunnies a few months ago. Two does. They were born on December 26, so they are about 4 1/2 months old. They are not very cuddily and hard to catch. I wouldn't call them "tame." Is there still hope that they will get tame?

I don't know the breed. They are not lop ear. One is brown and look like peter rabbit and the other is black with some random white hairs. They are litter mates. They are large and long. Sometimes they growl if we are trying to pick them up and one nipped my granddaughter (9 years old). Once I pick them up and sit and scratch their head and talk to them, they seem fine. I'll post some fotos later. They live in a big hutch in the middle of my fenced chicken yard and sometimes I let them out during the day and always put them up at night. I leave the hutch open when they are out for them to go in when they want to.

Some questions:

1. What can I do for them to be more tame?

2. Should I have them fixed? I do not plan to breed them.

3. They "hump" each other in a very serious way sometimes, is that normal?

4. Would getting them fixed make them sweeter?

5. Will they get better aoubt us catching them when they are older or fixed?

Thanks to all you rabbit people. I really love my bunnies. Their names are Rosie and Lulu.\

If they haven't been handled much and are already starting to get aggressive, it will take a lot of work and diligence on your part to tame them. It would probably be easier if they had separate living quarters.

1. Bring them treats (carrots, dandelion, etc) and just pet them rather than picking them up for now.
2. Probably wise
3. They are establishing dominance. Yes, it's normal.
4. Not significantly, but it would probably help them get along a bit better.
5. If they respond well to treats and gentle handling, probably.

 

[shadow rabbit10]

Sounds very familiar... Could it be vent disease? I thought I saw something like this in my ARBA book... Let me go check.

 

[SA Farm]

So, I'm really worried about one of my kits. He sits in the back of the nest box all day, while his sister is coming out of the box now. When I looked at his bottom, he had a yellowish, brown discharge coming out. When I looked at his boy part, it was swollen and when I pressed it, white..pus?..came out. What can I do for this poor little guy? He just turned 3 weeks old.

copied from another forum:

First of all a very easy way to tell vent disease from ingrown hairs is that pimples look like just that, we have all seen them. On the other hand vent disease looks like small yellow worms just under the skin. Or you can see they go very deep. They are not just ontop of the skin. Second they will open and not heal. They will get scabby and will soon infect the face and could even show up as an eye infection.

Any rabbit thought to have vent disease is immediately considered to have passed the disease. Vent disease is easily spread by you. It is not just a sexually transmitted disease. It is spread by nose to nose contact. By you petting one rabbit and then going to another. Feed bowls, dishes, feed, scoops can all be transmitters. I have some knowledge learned the hard way. The first signs are problems with breeding, small litters,kits not thriving. And this may start without physical signs. The physical signs started in my rabbits 3 months after the new infected rabbits came here. But the problems with breeding started sooner. But I had no idea of what I was dealing with.

I gave my rabbits 2 rounds of Duramune, 1x a week for 3 weeks to no avail. They were reinfecting within 2 weeks. I spent more money than I want to admitt on vet bills to fix this problem. I had biopsies done to make sure what I was dealing with. And it showed vent disease. So my vet was at a loss as to what to do. We decided to treat the rabbits with Nuflor which is a broad spectrum antibiotic, but has not been used on rabbits because of the problems with antibiotics in general. But I was left with no choice. I had already lost a third of my rabbits and figured they were going to live or die. The vet was unsure of me treating all my rabbits but went along with it.

And here is the good news. The Nuflor only had to be given twice, five days apart. So I only had the rabbits of feed for about a week. And when I introduced their pellets back, I did not lose a third of my rabbits like I did on the duramune. My girlfriends rabbitry was also compromised because we interchanged rabbits. She butchers for me so my rabbits traveled there also. She also treated her rabbits with the Nuflor and did not take away their pellets at all. She lost no rabbits had no cases of runny stools and everyone tolerated it very well. This is great news for us. Rabbits have always had problems with antibiotics and maybe now we can save more rabbits.

But one thing bothers me. You guys tend to not want to talk about vent disease. I guess because it is the same spirocete? that caused syphillis in humans. But 1.It does not transferr from rabbit to human. 2. It is not just transferred by breeding in fact you are the biggest spreader of the disease in rabbits. 3. I see alot of you who want to treat your rabbits naturally, and I too would rather give something that I can pick and give myself. But this disease is going to do nothing but spread if you don't treat it and get rid of it.
4. By not talking about it you spread it further.

But this is hope for us that we have not had before. My vet says that theoretically this could be a cure for mastitis, abcesses and upper respitory problems. This is great news and now that I am on the other end of this I can honestly say that I am glad that my rabbits and I went through this. Because now we have something new that we can use to keep our breeding stock healthy.

This is very prevelent and you need to watch. When I go to an animal auction or a swap I carry alot of hand sanitizer and if I see an infected rabbit I tell the people what I observe and usually if they realize they quit selling and go home. But you can only do what you can do. I have even told people that if they have the rabbit treated I would still buy it. Just be on the lookout. Pimples do not swell up the vulva. Nor do they have more than one or two at a time. If you think you have an infected rabbit, you have an infected barn. Do not treat one and not everyone. And remember this is not a venereal disease, it is an infection that is transmitted by touch, and mostly ours. I hope this helps I have gotten upset that people seem to not want to talk about this. I did not want to tell people that my rabbits have this. But I am thrilled to tell people this good news that may affect all sorts of rabbit problems.

 

[shadow rabbit10]

The only thing I could find is vent disease or hutch burn...

 

[PoultryPower]

I think it was a blockage.
I wiped the area with a warm cloth. I then put him into a small, unfamiliar pen to encourage him to move around and explore. Then I moved him and his sister into their own cage with hay on a solid floor. I took out the nest box and put in easily accessible food and water bowls. He wasn't eating any pellets or drinking any water because it was all outside of the nest box and he never left the box. He was surviving only on his mother's milk. Now that he's out of the nest box and moving around, I think it helped get his system moving again. I checked his bottom just recently and the swelling has seemed to have gone down, also, he has solid, normal colored droppings.
It definitely isn't vents disease, the pus was coming directly from his genital opening. I think maybe it was urine, but because he wasn't eating or drinking, the color and substance was milky. I know that sometimes kits get blockages, I'm hoping that's all it was. I'm still going to be monitoring him closely, he isn't as active as his sister yet, but I think I'm in the clear. Now if only his butting teeth would correct themselves...