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  • Holland Lop

    Votes: 108 21.3%
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    Votes: 14 2.8%
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    Votes: 11 2.2%
  • Mini Rex/Rex

    Votes: 107 21.1%
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    Votes: 95 18.7%
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    Votes: 13 2.6%
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    Votes: 33 6.5%
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    Votes: 14 2.8%
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    Votes: 112 22.1%

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Yes I gave her the nestbox on day 27 and she made her nest with her fur/straw/and dry mowed grass
Rabbit does frequently do a thing called a false pregnancy. Often, they will stop at about day 21, but they may go "full term." A doe with a false pregnancy will go through all of the motions of being pregnant, even building a nest and pulling fur, but no babies are produced.

With most does, fur pulling only happens right around time of kindling. They may make a nest with hay or other materials, but the fur pulling only happens within hours or even minutes of the kits arriving. Some does will continue to pull fur for days after kindling, particularly if the weather is cool. IME, it is very unusual for a doe to pull significant amounts of her own fur more than a few hours before kindling (she may terrorize any cage mates by pulling theirs for days before, however). There are exceptions to every rule, of course. Out of hundreds of does that I have worked with, I did have one Jersey Wooly doe that started pulling fur about 10 days before she was due (about day 21). The first time she did it, I thought she'd had a false pregnancy, but she continued to pull fur daily until her kits were born. By the time she kindled, her cage was swimming with wool, and she was nearly bald! Moral of that story - know your doe.

If your doe put more than a wisp or two of fur in a nest more than 10 days ago, I think it likely that she had a false pregnancy.
 
Rabbit does frequently do a thing called a false pregnancy. Often, they will stop at about day 21, but they may go "full term." A doe with a false pregnancy will go through all of the motions of being pregnant, even building a nest and pulling fur, but no babies are produced.

With most does, fur pulling only happens right around time of kindling. They may make a nest with hay or other materials, but the fur pulling only happens within hours or even minutes of the kits arriving. Some does will continue to pull fur for days after kindling, particularly if the weather is cool. IME, it is very unusual for a doe to pull significant amounts of her own fur more than a few hours before kindling (she may terrorize any cage mates by pulling theirs for days before, however). There are exceptions to every rule, of course. Out of hundreds of does that I have worked with, I did have one Jersey Wooly doe that started pulling fur about 10 days before she was due (about day 21). The first time she did it, I thought she'd had a false pregnancy, but she continued to pull fur daily until her kits were born. By the time she kindled, her cage was swimming with wool, and she was nearly bald! Moral of that story - know your doe.

If your doe put more than a wisp or two of fur in a nest more than 10 days ago, I think it likely that she had a false pregnancy.
I checked on her as I usually do and it was on day 26-27 and she had a mouthful of fur and her cage floor was covered so I gave her the nestbox with straw and she made her nest,and when ever I would put some straw/mowed grass in her hutch she would add to her nest. And her left side would bulge out than a couple days ago it isn't anymore?? And this is my first litter ever so I'm not sure what's going on and I read on the internet that someone had a doe and a week later she had her kits and they had fur and were alive.
 
My experience leads me to believe that she "gave birth" to the litter that she never had in the first place on day 26-27.

As I said, there are always exceptions; someone on another forum said they had a doe that always went something outrageous, like 41 - 42 days with every pregnancy. All I can say is, I've never seen it happen. You may have a very weird doe, or she may have had a false pregnancy. Knowing what "typical" doe behavior is, and hearing that your doe pulled a good bit of fur on day 26 or 27 (at which time the babies could not be big enough to cause delivery problems), I'm inclined to think that you are waiting for babies that don't exist.
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Now that I've said that, watch her prove me wrong. You know my rabbits get together when I'm not around and say, "how can we drive her crazy today," right?
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My experience leads me to believe that she "gave birth" to the litter that she never had in the first place on day 26-27.

As I said, there are always exceptions; someone on another forum said they had a doe that always went something outrageous, like 41 - 42 days with every pregnancy. All I can say is, I've never seen it happen. You may have a very weird doe, or she may have had a false pregnancy. Knowing what "typical" doe behavior is, and hearing that your doe pulled a good bit of fur on day 26 or 27 (at which time the babies could not be big enough to cause delivery problems), I'm inclined to think that you are waiting for babies that don't exist.
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Now that I've said that, watch her prove me wrong. You know my rabbits get together when I'm not around and say, "how can we drive her crazy today," right?
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I'll have to see and I'm gonna leave the nestbox in there for about another week and if she doesn't have any in a week I might try to breed to her in about a month to a month in a half and see what happens. And thanks for the laugh and giving me your advice
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I just had my first sell today!, sold a Broken Black Holland Lop Buck as a pet. He had Split-Penis so he was un-showable. I am getting a new Doe hopefully this week and I am going to be breeding her to my Siamese Sable buck soon.
 

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