I have a 5 month old holland lop buck and an almost 4 month old harlequin doe. I brought her home at 12 weeks with the intent to breed her and my buck at 6 months. When I first brought her home our buck managed to get into her exercise pen(he had never jumped his before, he’s in a taller one now). They are both indoor bunnies with a large enclosure but kept separate other than supervised free roaming upstairs.
A few days after we found our buck with our doe she started hay staching so I assumed immediately false pregnancy from the incident. I will include a little video of it(we had temporarily put her in a smaller pen while we sorted out our escape artist buck situation)
Not long after this incident she had started hiding more in her box and acting lethargic. She also didn’t eat as much as our other bunny. I was worried she had GI stasis so kept a close eye on her.
A few weeks later I was watching her hop around during free roam time and could have sworn she had a little budge. She’s a true dwarf so she’s pretty small but it seems like her tummy was more round than before. She also wasn’t super active like our buck is. I’ve never seen her binky or run unless she was trying to get away from the buck or avoid getting caught.
She’s almost 4 months old now, and while her and the buck get free roam time neither her or we let the buck mount her so if she is pregnant it has to be from the first incident which was 33 days ago now.
She has not pulled fur or exhibited any nesting behavior since the first time when I suspected false pregnancy.
I took a video of her resting and I think I see kicks here and there besides the usual gut movement. Looking for a second opinion! If she is pregnant she should have kindled days ago, but maybe my dates are wrong. I’m just concerned and worried, she wasn’t supposed to get pregnant yet and to boot this is my first pairing if she is. Two videos show her nesting a few days after meeting the buck, last video shows her current enclosure on day 30 of potential pregnancy. First video is where I believe I saw kicks but could be wrong.
A few days after we found our buck with our doe she started hay staching so I assumed immediately false pregnancy from the incident. I will include a little video of it(we had temporarily put her in a smaller pen while we sorted out our escape artist buck situation)
Not long after this incident she had started hiding more in her box and acting lethargic. She also didn’t eat as much as our other bunny. I was worried she had GI stasis so kept a close eye on her.
A few weeks later I was watching her hop around during free roam time and could have sworn she had a little budge. She’s a true dwarf so she’s pretty small but it seems like her tummy was more round than before. She also wasn’t super active like our buck is. I’ve never seen her binky or run unless she was trying to get away from the buck or avoid getting caught.
She’s almost 4 months old now, and while her and the buck get free roam time neither her or we let the buck mount her so if she is pregnant it has to be from the first incident which was 33 days ago now.
She has not pulled fur or exhibited any nesting behavior since the first time when I suspected false pregnancy.
I took a video of her resting and I think I see kicks here and there besides the usual gut movement. Looking for a second opinion! If she is pregnant she should have kindled days ago, but maybe my dates are wrong. I’m just concerned and worried, she wasn’t supposed to get pregnant yet and to boot this is my first pairing if she is. Two videos show her nesting a few days after meeting the buck, last video shows her current enclosure on day 30 of potential pregnancy. First video is where I believe I saw kicks but could be wrong.
More than once I've had rabbits get out together, and the kids assured me there was no mounting/breeding, but sure enough, we had surprise litters. If male and female rabbits are together, at all, for any amount of time, you can end up with bunnies.
