New litter peanuts?

[Lizardslaps]

Parents are netherland dwarfs

she gave birth to 2 of these and they each weigh around 25grams they are both squeaking and nosen around though but cold to the touch
I got only 1 live bunny from the 2 prior litters and it was about 50% bigger than these guys

Are these gonna die on me?

 

[MamaSheepdog]

That looks like a classic peanut to me, with the extremely blunt face and club feet. Someone posted a pic of a peanut before that looked like that- I have no personal experience to go by because I raise Standard Rex.

Lindsey's Woollies posted a pic of some peanuts that look more "normal" in this post:

woke-up-to-some-popples-t8874.html

This will give you other indicators of what to watch for.

 

[Lizardslaps]

thanks
to bad this is her 3rd litter and only 1 healthy bunny to come out of it

 

[LindseysWoolies]

Poor baby. Yeah that definitely looks like a peanut. Its sad but its all just chance. Your rabbits have a 25% chance of producing peanuts and you just seem to be getting an unlucky number of them. (like my litter in the link)

 

[ZRabbits]

So sorry to hear about the peanut. It's an unfortunate aspect of raising Dwarfs.

Karen

 

[luvabunny]

Definitely a peanut. Never had one live past 3 days. I just made it a practice to dispose of them at birth.
Peanuts are caused by a double dwarfing gene. If your same buck and doe have produced only 1 viable bunny in 3 litters, then it's a pretty safe bet that both your buck and doe carry the gene.
This doesn't make them unusable in your barn. Simply breed both to other bunnies. The liklihood that every bunny in your barn had a dwarfing gene is slim. Obviously, both of them have the gene, so you will still get some peanuts occasionally, but you should also get some normal bunnies.
Sorry for the peanut(s), but like stated before, it's just an aspect of raising breeds of rabbits that carry the gene.