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.
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.
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.