Pregnant rabbit and traveling?

[Cosima]

I got a pregnant rabbit yesterday she was in a car for quite a while and now she is indoors and she was making grunting sounds when the buck was on top of her and I will have to go on a ferry ride for ten hours and well I was wondering do you have that she is still pregnant or do you think that she will absorb the kits on ferry or do you think that there might be a chance that she will stay pregnant?

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

I think you should take her with you. There's a big chance that she will not absorb the kits, but make sure she does not get stressed or she might stall the birth or the kits will be still born

 

[Cosima]

I can’t stop her from getting stressed but what about the grunting?

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

Does usually grunt because they don't like other rabbits bossing them around

 

[Preitler]

Grunting at a buck is completly normal for a doe that is, or thinks she is pregnant. They can get very vocal then, it's one way to get an idea if the doe is pregnant.

Absorbing kits is something very rare, might happen at the edge of starvation or when under constant stress due to something like an missivly overpopulated warren, not within a day or some hours.
There the main concern is that she keeps eating and drinking.
If you have a few days I would get her used to the carrier or whatever she will travel in by putting her in there (with food and water) for an hour or so some days before the real journey, and also carry her around a little so she gets used to that too. Give a treat afterwards.

 

[Cosima]

I don’t have that time but she is eating and drinking. Actually I am listening to five rabbits chowing on greens right now Lol.

 

[Cosima]

And all five rabbits are pooping and peeing.

 

[Cosima]

I tried to feel her belly today but I couldn’t feel anything do you think that I could put her with the buck and by her reaction tell if she is pregnant or not?

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

I've tried feeling all of my does and it's really hard. Maybe wait a bit more, sometimes does Kindle late

 

[Cosima]

What about the buck test?

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

What about the buck test?

I'm thinking it would be safer not to Incase she gets really stressed

 

[Cosima]

I might still try it but if she gets stressed I will take her out immediately.

 

[Cosima]

I tried and she was not receptive but her private part was dark purple? Also is it normal not to be able to feel anything on day 9 because I tried to palpate her and I don’t feel a thing and I don’t think it is my palpate the wrong way?

 

[Cosima]

I will try to breed her every morning and evening. I would love a response in hopefully the not to distant future.

 

[Preitler]

I tried and she was not receptive but her private part was dark purple? Also is it normal not to be able to feel anything on day 9 because I tried to palpate her and I don’t feel a thing and I don’t think it is my palpate the wrong way?

Way too early to tell. I'm breeding rabbits for 10 years now and can't palpate, when I could feel something I already see it in the way they move and behaviour.

If you had a fall off I would just stop stressing her and wait it out. Their instincts are tiny little voices in their heads that can be easily droned out, that's not worth it.

 

[Cosima]

Okay that is what my mother said.

 

[Cosima]

I felt again to and I felt something so in three weeks I will be sending kit pics!