New to Rabbit Breeding need some tips

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New to Rabbit Breeding need some tips

Postby conman » Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:03 pm

hi guys im new to the site was looking for a welcome page or some where to say hello but couldn't see one so i thought i'd jump straight in

ive had 2 doe's and a buck for 7/8 weeks now for the first 3 weeks i had them in a large out door pen together while i made a nesting box and got place to put it after having them in the nesting box for 3 weeks and expecting a litter or 2 nout came until a week or 2 after i was expecting and then it was one large still born from the smaller of the 2 does that was 4 days ago and i had put her back in with the buck yesterday morning and evening for an hour at a time he tried hard but im not sure if he hit is there any way to be sure?
i also tried the other doe in with him but she seems to spend more time on his back vibrating and when he tries to get on her she kicks him off or he does a back flip while tring to thrust i think he just tired him self out and gave up in the end. so i tried her back in with him today and he had no interest in her at all would he be tired or will he not try and mount at all if she is not in heat?
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Re: New to Rabbit Breeding need some tips

Postby Tom-tom » Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:08 am

Knowing more about rabbits

Bunnies or rabbits have been known for their prolific nature and there is regular to state that they breed like rabbits. Hence over the years, rabbits have been a prey for a variety of predators, but they manage to survive by providing lots of offspring’s. This may be a great rule to survive in the forest, but this could be a problem for pet owners since breeding is perceptibly a natural process. Breeding a domestic rabbit is not simple and your frequency of both feeding and breeding them needs to be altered. It has been seen that a female rabbit, after pregnancy, has double consumption of food.

You would find it difficult to manage too many kits or babies or rabbits. They have an average of 4 to 12 and a lot of planning is needed to keep them, help them grown and allowing them to breed again. This could also result in a runaway population explosion and so you should try and understand these complexities. Here are some tips that can help you deal with these issues.

Rabbits attain sexual maturity at 6 months and some larger rabbit breeds mature at 9 months. Similar to mammals, these male rabbits have a penis while females have vagina. Rabbits have their penis tucked in to the skin folds and this looks like female rabbits genitalia. For breeding them you need to separate the male rabbit or buck in a separate cage, with other female rabbits known as a doe. Usually pregnancy is guaranteed if this is done for a few days. Some rabbits may be infertile and some females might not have an oestrus cycle. During pregnancy, female rabbits have a gestation period of about a month and she would need a nest, which they often build themselves.

She feeds its kits from milk producing mammary glands and these kits take about 10 days to open their eyes. Almost two third of does die out due to uterine cancer by the age of five, in case they are not spayed.
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