Help! Pregnant Rabbit, Stillborn?

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I have a New Zealand White doe that is around 3 years old. She got out of her hutch about a year ago and we've never been able to catch her to put her back in. We live on a large farm and don't really have a coyote problem so she's been fine. A friend of mine needed to rehome her large mixed breed buck so I agreed to take him - and he got out of the same hutch! My doe typically doesn't let the male near her so I never worried about a litter. She seemed to have been putting on weight recently and I thought she might be pregnant. That was about a week ago. Today, my dog was stuck on this one corner of the barn so I went to see what he was looking at and it was the doe. She was laying in the corner under some boards. I was only startled because she was allowing me to get so close. She rolled over a little and I saw a red sac coming from her back end. I thought she was giving birth so I let her be. I came back half an hour later and she was still laying there with now every bit of 6-8 inches of red sac coming from her. Her back end was smeared with blood and the sac was stuck in her. I was able to carefully pick her up and move her to a hutch. She just seems to be resting but she won't eat or drink. I didn't have any latex gloves so I didn't want to touch the sac. I'm currently waiting on the vet to call me back.

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I haven't found anything else on the internet about this. I know a girl who raises some rabbits for 4H and she said it looks like they're stillborns in a sac. She didn't think it was a prolapsed uterus. The bleeding has stopped but the sac is still there. I'm not sure what to do about it, what it is, or how to proceed! I've never had a pregnant rabbit before.
 
Hi, welcome to the forum. :) Sorry to hear about the rabbit.
This is just my opinion of course, medical advice is hard for a lot of people to offer.
I would dispatch this rabbit, unless you are alright with an expensive vet bill and not a good chance for survival. She is probably in shock and will likely die soon anyways.
This does look like a uterine prolapse. The uterus is probably filled with kits, or puss/tumour/infection, or both. If she had been giving birth to stillborns in the normal way, each kit should come out it in it's own amniotic sac, not one large thing like this.
 
I agree with Olimpia and Alforddm

This looks like a prolapsed uterus that is likely full of infection and the prognosis is very poor. I would end her suffering
 
Very sorry, but as every one else has said....prolapse and survival is not good even with a GOOD vet. The shock alone usually does them in :( I've only had 1, a Mini Rex, but not some thing I'll ever forget and hope to never have again.
 
It looks pretty terrible.
This is definitely not something common in rabbits, I've never seen it in all the litters I've had.

Stillborns on the other hand, are quite common and this is definitely not that. Does can usually pass even large ones, although they make come out stretched out looking.

Stuck kits are more common than a fully prolapsed uterus, but I don't think it looks like that either.

Like the others, I'm leaning towards prolapse, and I don't think it's something she's going to survive.

Poor thing. I'm sorry, but please don't take it too hard if there is nothing you can do for her.
 
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