three legged kit!!!

[ohiogoatgirl]

ONE OF THE BABY RABBITS IS THREE-LEGGED!!! :shock: :|
I have no idea how I missed it but I was just checking them after I did chores to see if I could kinda guess sexes yet. well the one I grabbed kinda awkward and went to hold it correctly to try and look at its bits... and low-and-behold THREE LEGS! its missing the back left leg! totally healthy happy and fat lil girl (I think) but just no leg there. probably the second fastest of the bunch too! going to get pics because its just flippin crazy... I've never seen anything like it before. I have to believe it was like that from birth because its all healed and it was never injured, I never saw any blood in the nest or hutch at all, the leg is completely healed up perfectly like there was never any injury,..... just.... wow.....

the litter is cali mom and dutch dad. cali I don't have pedigree or background other then she is supposedly from good show lines. this is her second litter ever, first was here as well and all are fine and all four legs.
the buck is actually one from the second litter of buns I ever had, back when I first got into rabbits. so I know his parents and all the siblings and some of the siblings litters. and the original pair were full pedigree from good show lines.

so i'm totally lost as to what happened that it has three legs but its perfectly healthy as far as I can tell!

 

[Flemishstar]

AWWW ...hope it stays healthy..I had a kit once that somehow had wool tied around its little leg and the bottom half was black...it apparently amputated its self...The litter already had 11 so I chose to cull, Good luck

 

[AmysMacdog]

Sounds like a birth defect. Odd things like that happen sometimes. I hope it makes it! I'd keep it as long as it was happy and healthy.

 

[mystang89]

:camera:

 

[Ivory]

It should be just fine, with it never having two back legs it should learn to hop OK. I hope so anyway.

I once had a pig that had its back legs crushed when it was very tiny, learned to walk on its front legs (with its rear in the year) no problem at all.

 

[Miss M]

:camera:

:yeahthat:

 

[MamaSheepdog]

I bet the doe "overcleaned" the kit. I have had kits with legs chewed off- they are usually pretty mangled, so if not dead already, I dispatch them and give them to the cats. If it was only one leg, with no other damage, I am sure they would do fine.

 

[DitchDoc]

opcorn: What mystang and Miss M said!

 

[AmysMacdog]

opcorn: