I AM SO UPSET.. I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT I SEEN (GRAPHIC)

[Mary Ann's Rabbitry]

when I have to do another rabbit food order.. I am going to check with them to see if I can get the 18 percent... Other than that I am staying the same that I am. the other two does are not doing this and feeding there babies no problem and leaving pellets behind in there dish. So I really don't think it is a food issue..
just to update so far.... I gave most of the babies to the doe that likes to pee in her box.. but I take the box when she is done feeding so less of a chance for that to happened.. She feed them all this morning ... I gave two babies to the good mom that has already 9 babies.. so that she is feeding 11 babies.. that is allot but at this age.. if one misses a meal...no big deal ,, as I give them oats and shaft off the hay in the box twice a day and I see them eating it.

 

[Miss M]

Since your other does aren't having any issues, it sounds like it was just that doe.

I'm so glad the babies are doing well!

 

[Mary Ann's Rabbitry]

thanks Miss M.. I just groomed the rabbits and they are fine in weight.

 

[dayna]

Man, that really is horrible. I'm sorry you had this doe act this way. I'm glad you culled her. Hopefully you can get some good does out of your other doe.

 

[DogCatMom]

I can only imagine how shocking it was to find a baby bunny like that--from its OWN mother. :shock:

The closest situation I can offer is from a friend, not from myself. Friend had a flock of ten hens and, of course, Friend had her one or two favorite hens among all the rest. One day, while she was out in the garden and the hens were insect-catching, a random hen started attacking (full-out attack, drawing blood, the whole nine yards) The Favorite Hen. There had been earlier skirmishes, but Friend was a relatively new chicken-keeper and thought that the pecking order had been established and settled.

Not so, unfortunately.

When the attack began, it took Friend a couple of seconds to register that it was a real attack--out for blood/death--and after she waded in and took matters into her own hands, the flock was down to nine hens. Friend came out of her adrenaline haze to find that she had, indeed, killed the attacking hen with her own bare hands. :| THEN she started shaking, went into the house, made herself some tea, and second-guessed herself--on her blog.

The comments I read on her blog--and I emailed her, not wanting to have her fall apart on the phone--all absolutely supported what she had done, even if she didn't consciously make the decision to "cull" the attacking hen. Such dynamics in the flock could only get worse, others with more experience said, and giving away Attacker to be an only hen would have been the *only* other option available.

Her husband, a true diamond of the first water, asked whether she wanted Attacker buried? scalded and plucked? scalded, plucked, then frozen? Freezing was the decision, but the label was to say simply "chicken," not "[chicken's name]" on it. What an absolutely wonderful man.

Although we are repelled by such behavior in a mother rabbit, human mothers aren't always loving and nurturing to their children (mine sure wasn't), so there are "bad mothers" here and there in the mammalian world, sadly. This mother rabbit seems to have been an extreme case, and one that could, fortunately, be weeded out. Thank heavens.