Background:
Booted chocolate tiny holland lop doe given to me. Gorgeous little rabbit. Passed quarantine no issues.
Bred to chocolate buck I have.
Produced a litter with six peanuts and two TINY runts. Wasn't sure if runts or peanuts but they lived.
This one was the better of the two. Grew bigger, seemed healthy. Weather has been doing this topsy turvy thing which is HARD on rabbits housed outside and he didn't handle those weather changes well. He got at seven weeks to about the size of a four week old kit.
This one I never liked but figured I'd try to grow him out big enough for my snake guy... just needed to reach one pound.
He looked horrid forever...this past week he was looking fantastic... did a bit of a growth spurt and thought COOL maybe this bit of nothing bunny has some gumption to him. At seven weeks he was about the size of a three week old.
Came in to feed him and he had somehow managed to twist a twist of hay around a back ankle which was twisted around the wire from the cage and I'm guessing frightened himself to death. Freak thing. NEVER have i had a kit do such a thing before...the hay was so tightly wrapped I couldn't get it off....
It was ... horrible.
I hate it.
I can't say how much I hate this topsy turvy weather and losing kits because of it. The farmers around here are losing young stock in their sheep and cattle too.... it's just not nice. We need a good freeze and some solid cold weather for a good month or something...
And then to lose a kit (that granted was a bit of nothing kit) but was showing gumption and good health this past week to something stupid like this ...
I HATE IT.
Booted chocolate tiny holland lop doe given to me. Gorgeous little rabbit. Passed quarantine no issues.
Bred to chocolate buck I have.
Produced a litter with six peanuts and two TINY runts. Wasn't sure if runts or peanuts but they lived.
This one was the better of the two. Grew bigger, seemed healthy. Weather has been doing this topsy turvy thing which is HARD on rabbits housed outside and he didn't handle those weather changes well. He got at seven weeks to about the size of a four week old kit.
This one I never liked but figured I'd try to grow him out big enough for my snake guy... just needed to reach one pound.
He looked horrid forever...this past week he was looking fantastic... did a bit of a growth spurt and thought COOL maybe this bit of nothing bunny has some gumption to him. At seven weeks he was about the size of a three week old.
Came in to feed him and he had somehow managed to twist a twist of hay around a back ankle which was twisted around the wire from the cage and I'm guessing frightened himself to death. Freak thing. NEVER have i had a kit do such a thing before...the hay was so tightly wrapped I couldn't get it off....
It was ... horrible.
I hate it.
I can't say how much I hate this topsy turvy weather and losing kits because of it. The farmers around here are losing young stock in their sheep and cattle too.... it's just not nice. We need a good freeze and some solid cold weather for a good month or something...
And then to lose a kit (that granted was a bit of nothing kit) but was showing gumption and good health this past week to something stupid like this ...
I HATE IT.
She had to be culled less than a week later because her leg was so useless she began to bloat from not being able to move properly. Almost lost a kit when the mom's fur wrapped so tight around his newborn leg that circulation was cut off. It was dark purple and over twice the size of a normal foot. This was a normal furred rabbit... not an angora. The fur was short, but somehow it got wrapped so tight, it almost cut the foot off.
