Have you ever been sold the wrong rabbit?

[user 8761]

I’ve been given a buck when I purchased a doe 3 times now from three different local sellers.

Has this happened to you before? Is this common?

I’d be embarrassed as hell if I got this wrong.

 

[Preitler]

In the first year raising rabbits I had an Myxo outbreak, once I realised what was going on I seperated the survivers and had a rabbit in every room. Only my little black Fury, living in my kitchen, made it. Kept her indoors until spring, bought a second "doe" early in the year and when "she" managed to break out of her cage I was amazed how well those two got along. A month later I had 5 more rabbits in my kitchen.
Very inconvinient situation They all moved out into the hutches once it was warm enough, Fury got retired from breeding at 7 and is a happy, 11yo outdoor bunny now.
I kept the buck since I needed one anyway, his heart failed after a fox attack 4 years later.

Missexing is fairly common, but you have quite a string of bad luck there . When I sex my kits I always get a second opinion (there are two other breeders in my road), and I also watch them closly, I let mine out of the hutches for grazing - if a doeling runs down the ramp, does a short digging burst making a fist sized hole, and hopping away - high time to check genders again, that's something bucks do, when does dig it's a tunnel.

 

[ladysown]

are you checking them yourself when you purchase them? Don't just take the seller's word for what they have. People make mistakes and with bunnies it's easy enough to do.

 

[Dimplz]

Always inspect and double check. I have been sold the wrong rabbit, 4 times. The first 3 times were a trio I ordered online.

I order 3 silver foxes. I got 2 shaded agoutis, one of those with the steel gene, and an American Chinchilla with the wideband gene. The last was a pet store purchase they insisted was a girl, turned out to be a buck.

So I sex every rabbit myself, even double checking the genders every week, and then again before anyone takes a rabbit. I flip that rabbit over, sex it with the buyer watching, and confirming I am correct.

Have not had any returned yet.

 

[tambayo]

Yes i did have a doe that turned out to be a buck in the first round of buying rabbits for breeding. He was indeed very good with the doe that was a doe but he sprayed so that messyness got him a freezer ticket.
Now knowing a little more about sexing rabbits and about what i want to check confirmation wise i'll flip them over to check all of that, and not just all is clean and healthy looking.
2 i bought without checking where correct gender and healthy, but to whawha panic at that time (not handled in a while) to want the struggle, pens where big enough, so transport crate in there and in they hopped themselves.

 

[hotzcatz]

Mistakes happen and it's easier than one would expect to mistake genders in young rabbits. Still, if it's me buying a rabbit, I'm gonna check the gender myself and not take anyone else's word on it. Then if it's wrong, I can blame myself as well.