Anyone in the SE/Texas have a litter yet?

[Joe n TN]

Question only pertains to those that have outdoor rabbitries. Wondering if anyone else that had an extreme summer, basically SE and/or Texas, has had a litter yet? I just re-bred one doe that did not kindle last week and my other doe is due next Friday.

To say I am hoping I have kits next Friday is an understatement! Even my young buck, 8 months old right now, seems to have went sterile this summer.

I exchanged emails with a breeder in south Texas and she said she loses 5 months a year some years where she won't get litters due to the heat. That is not cool, literally and figuratively!

Joe

 

[tracie123]

The only litter i have had was oct 8th blue new zealands. None of my calis or other new zealands took.
Tracie

 

[skysthelimit]

OAF should chime in, I believe she had a litter.

 

[Piper]

- three of my outdoor, colony guinea pigs became pregnant. Two have delivered and the other one, should deliver any day.
- I think that I am going to ("try to") set up at least one colony situation, for next summer, for the rabbits. Guniea pigs have about a 60 day gestation, which means (to me) that there is more going on, than just the heat.

 

[SuburbanHomesteader]

I'm not in TX but we had as hot a summer as I can remember in the last 30 years. Daily temps above 100 for a couple of weeks. Suspended breeding after the first of June and still ended up losing two litters on July 4th. Resumed breeding after first of August and had one litter Sept 5th and the other didn't take. Since then, everything is back to normal. Have since purchased at auction a couple of big industrial fans to which we've added misting systems. Hoping that next year we can continue to breed throughout the summer months. We'll see...

 

[Wheels]

Just had a litter of New Zealand/Cali on the 15th I re-bred this doe in September after a miss. Used the same Buck who is a a year-and-a-half old.

 

[OneAcreFarm]

We had one round of missed litters this last month with some of our rabbits, but I have a NZW litter that is a couple days old, two Rex litters that are about two weeks old and I had two Cali does deliver only one or two kits....so I think we are coming out of it now. What I did this year and it seemed to help is to keep back a couple bucks from Nov/Dec litters to breed with over the summer. I only had one month where the does missed. Last year, we had about 5mos of no litters, June thru Nov.

 

[Lastfling]

I bred my four Tan does and two of them delivered. One had two kits, and the other five. The litter of five was born this past Saturday, while the litter with two was the week prior. The other two does, one of which was due Saturday will be rebred.

 

[AnnClaire]

I bred in September and the kits are 6 weeks old now ... but one doe didn't take and the 2 that bred only kindled 1 and 2, so not a good round in september.

I am holding off on the next breeding waiting for some new breeding stock to get in and I will breed everyone next week for kindling the last week of November.

I am in NW OK where we had lots of days 100+ this summer ... in fact, my AC is on right now as it is hot and muggy outside ... coldfront should be here tomorrow with highs in the 50s after that

 

[skysthelimit]

Which is interesting, since I am in Ohio, North of everyone, and I have not had a litter since August. Has several bred, misses, and now no one wants to breed. It's been below 70 since the third week of August, still nothing took.