squeaking doe

[gardenbunny]

i have a question, then an excited rant... i went to check on my pregnant doe, she is due tomorrow she had a fur nest in her nest box, but she was making a squeaking noise( she's grunted before to show she's mad so i know she's more vocal than the rest) we thought it was a mouse or baby bunny but it was coming from the area she was in not near the nest box. i thought it was a squeaky hinge but no it was her my husband is proof. anyone else have a squeaky doe when she is in labour...


woohoo on the second try, i think my ceecee is pregnant!
she was left with the buck for 4 days so it was hard to gauge when her day 31 would be. but tonight i saw a fur nest in her nest box! good girl got it in the box.
gave her a little bit on apple cider vinegar in her water.
soo excited for kits. i was pretty sure she was pregnant because unlike last try she had teats and wasn't using her nest box as a litter box.
i didn't take a pic because she's a very skiddish rabbit don't want to freak her out.
sooo excited. its both of our's first litter( she's 7 months old) hope it goes well( last year i tried to mate a doe that was too old and the kits came out deformed and she eat their heads off... so anything better than that would be great)

 

[akane]

Some does make a variety of noises when ready to give birth or ready to breed. Usually not that high pitched though. You might want to check on her extra and many give tums for calcium when the doe is giving birth.

Does don't damage kits just because they are old. That really has very little to do with it. An older doe as a first timer is the same as a young doe as a first timer except there can be a tightening of the ligaments so the pelvis doesn't separate as easily. This can cause a very small increase in stuck kits. Now stuck kits will result in mutilated and/or lots of dead kits. The doe has to rip them out and may pull off limbs or split the belly open and nearly always a stuck kit is followed by dead kits. Does may then try to clean up the dead bodies so it doesn't attract predators. It gives the appearance that they killed and tried to eat their kits. You can also have a case where a doe over grooms otherwise healthy kits but most of the time the damage is much smaller such as missing ears or toes.

 

[gardenbunny]

thank you for the info i'm glad she didn't just eat them because they were malformed. it was not a meat rabbit and i didn't mean to breed her specifically so the whole thing was wrong from day one. but she was a great rabbit, sad i didn't know enough last year to breed her properly.

this time we're ready, excited about possible kits