Okay, I'd like to see some opinions on a breeding schedule.
Here's my set up to provide a background: I have two English Lop does that are quite large and are 8 1/2 months old. I have one NZ/California doe that is about 5 1/2 months old. One English Lop doe had one unsuccessful kindle a few months ago and has not been breed since. The second has had one unsuccessful and one successful kindle. The successful kindle is now about 9 weeks old and I will probably harvest in about a weeks or so.
The buck is a Mini Lop. He's about a year and a half old. My thoughts are to harvest him and get a larger breed buck like a NZ. My reasoning is that the current kindle isn't as large as I'd like them to be at this stage. Haven't weight them. My thoughts are to start breeding larger stock overall.
I stopped breeding completely during this summer due to the heat. My thoughts are to start again right around the first of September which of course would put the kindles around the first of October. So one buck and three does. How would you breed them? Would you breed all at the same time? Would you breed maybe two of them and then the third a month later? How soon after they deliver would you rebreed?
Appreciate your thoughts.
Here's my set up to provide a background: I have two English Lop does that are quite large and are 8 1/2 months old. I have one NZ/California doe that is about 5 1/2 months old. One English Lop doe had one unsuccessful kindle a few months ago and has not been breed since. The second has had one unsuccessful and one successful kindle. The successful kindle is now about 9 weeks old and I will probably harvest in about a weeks or so.
The buck is a Mini Lop. He's about a year and a half old. My thoughts are to harvest him and get a larger breed buck like a NZ. My reasoning is that the current kindle isn't as large as I'd like them to be at this stage. Haven't weight them. My thoughts are to start breeding larger stock overall.
I stopped breeding completely during this summer due to the heat. My thoughts are to start again right around the first of September which of course would put the kindles around the first of October. So one buck and three does. How would you breed them? Would you breed all at the same time? Would you breed maybe two of them and then the third a month later? How soon after they deliver would you rebreed?
Appreciate your thoughts.