Recent content by Jay_ho

As another member posted today, our kits are also opening their eyes. Unit445's kits are squirmers and bouncing all over the place. This is mom's 2nd litter (1st litter all died) so this is a big milestone! Also a pic of the happy parents.

My does first litter,, she did the same thing to all 6 kits, did not feed them. I heard this can be common for 1st time mothers and they will hopefully learn by the 2nd litter. This last litter, she had four kits,, one of the kits was super runt, about half the size of their the other kits. The...

I have a pair of champagne does that delivered on day 33 and 34 for each of their pregnancies. 1st time I wasn't sure they were pregnant as they didn't show any signs (that I recognized as a first time breeder)until about two hours before birth on day 33 she started pulling fur.

I will give it a try. She is literally making the nest right outside the box, against the box

Good afternoon I have a pregnant doe that is ready to kindle and continues to build her nest outside the nest box. She is due today or tomorrow and is starting to pull fur. 3 times so far I have moved everything back into the nest box but she immediately starts pulling it out and building it on...

Thank you both for the reply. All the kits died - they were too malnourished by the time I identified the issue. I had checked them each morning to make sure they were active, but did not pull them out of the nest to observe their health (warmth and plumlness). It wasn't until they were very...

Good question. I just made a similar post as I have a mom not feeding her kits. Looking forward to seeing the responses

Good afternoon - new to this group and rabbits. I have read some older posts and gave some things to try, but didn't see exactly an answer to my concern. Forgive me if I missed it I have two sister does that had a litter within 3 days of each other. "Good" mom had her litter first, 6 days ago...