Mi Bunny

It feels nice to perceive the newly born baby rabbits though many owners are found to loathe. What is the main reason behind this? I do often wonder also and have concluded any such owner doesn’t deserve the right to keep pet rabbits. They’re after all your own children! Are you aware of other excitements with these babies? Never think that you can’t touch the babies because the mom will reject her kits. On the contrary, a rabbit is not only a humble pet but is also one of the greatest friends of human beings. For that reason it remains use to human scents and being around humans. Rabbit mothers do take care of their babies.

Nevertheless this does not indicate that you are relieved. You are the owner and are also playing the role of breeder at the same time. For this reason you have to perform lots of responsibilities. These include placing a clean sheet of newsprint on table, switch on light and take the kits from the nest. Make a precise database of live ones, the peanuts, and the stillborns as this is essential. It may also become essential, at times, to cut the umbilical cord of the first-time mom. Don’t get nervous. It’s quite simple and any hesitation may be detrimental for the mother.

Many breeders are found to sit idle and do nothing. Never do this and check babies on a daily basis. It may happen that one day you come across babies who have wandered out and are not warm too. It may be that there are dead kits in the nest and your first duty then is to remove them without delay. Remember, if all of the kits die, you have to rebreed the doe.

You don’t have to get worried of peanuts since all of them die and they are not viable. However, you have to take care of runts. These runts can be distinguished since they are generally a little bigger than a peanut, but still much smaller than viable kits. You can recognize them by their very tiny ears and they will live for weeks or even months. Many of them will live until they are weaned.

Try to conscious of food habits of the doe and increase its feed during the last week of pregnancy. But refrain from any further increase until the kits are almost a week old. Try to increase food again afterward.