Extended, Pausing, or Holding a Pregnancy?????

[mommaebear]

I've hear of this before from other people. I know that is is possible for a rabbit to reabsorb a pregnancy, but I'm not sure how far along. But I have also heard of rabbits who can pause their pregnancy and have even heard from one person that an impregnated rabbit with no access to a buck has held a pregnancy and extending it by 8 weeks. I've tried to find information about this or if it is even possible, but can't find anything, lol. I am awear that they can hold a pregnancy for a little while in conditions where they feel it unsafe to kindle, but am really not awear of how long this can be. Also the I have one female that always seems to take longer, but I'm not sure how much longer, the average gestation length is 31 days, but what is the normal range so I can know the high end of normalacy?

I could really use some education on the non-normal repetitive stuff. Thanks

 

[akane]

Rabbits should not be able to hold pregnancy for long. Most cases turn out to have an accident somewhere. Rabbits breeding through wire, someone's kid sticking them together while unsupervised, etc... In outdoor colony situations does have occasionally been bred by cottontails but this cross rarely works even when purposefully attempted so that's very uncommon. Generally the max gestation is considered to be around 35-36 days.

 

[ladysown]

hey...I had TWO DOES come in TWO months late.

Complete isolation.
NO access to a buck.

Having kits that matched up in colour to the buck they were bred to two months earlier.

It was a "GO FIGURE this one moment".

Never did get that one explained to me...(and the rabbits weren't talking either)

 

[ajharris]

Ladysdown, I had something similar happen. I had a Flemish doe I had bred, the due date came and went and no babies. It was terribly hot here in Oklahoma, so I figured she had reabsorbed the litter. 3 weeks later, she had a litter of 16. She raised 14 of the kits. I know when she was bred, I know that my dd who was 3 at the time didn't put her in the bucks cage. I say nature has a way of taking care of creatures.