Bunny Babies

[katie]

[/color][/size][/font]Hello,
I am completly new to this so please answer in detail. I have a pregnant doe thats 6 months old and she has bred with a 2 year old male, I know the age gap isn't great but she's bigger than him anyway. I have researched this loads and I get different answer's everytime. Can you touch the kits before they leave the nest or will they get eaten? Thanks

[Bunni's Babbits]

definatly false..i've been breeding Nethies for about a year now and have checked every single site possible to make sure I was doing things right. It's proven that you can handle the bunnies as much as you want before they leave the nest. As long as you don't leave them out too long or drop them they'll be perfectly fine. In fact, some say it's actually better if you handle them before they leave the nest because it'll help them be used to being handled by the time you start showing them. I know that you're not suppose to handle wild bunnies but that's only because they need to learn life without humans and the mother would think it's not hers. I'm always handling my new babies and they grow up perfectly well and can pose almost perfectly.

good luck with your bunnies!

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[daydreamingCimorene]

I'm new to baby bunnies but I read that you can touch them. My momma rabbit had babies about 5 days ago and the thing I read said to handle them everyday to make sure you don't lose any and that if you do you can remove them quickly. So I've been taking them all out everyday just to make sure they all look healthy so far so good. The momma hasn't eaten any and she seems totaly fine with me handling them. The thing I read said that the momma bunny should know your scent and so it won't bug her that its on her babies. I've actuay been checking her babies twice a day and alls good.

[Dwarfbunny87]

Handling them will NOT cause the mom to eat them or hurt them in any other way.

We've raised rabbits for 11 years and we check and handle our litters every day. Never had a problem.

We even use another doe's fur to cover the kits if the mom didn't pull enough of her own. So scent is NOT an issue with Domestic rabbits. We always save clean excess fur from prior litters and put it in a ziplock bag in case we need extra if the future. Works well!

Just be sure you give the doe a nestbox with pine shavings/straw in it for her to build a nest and have her babies. We always put the nestbox in on Day 27 of Gestation.

Good Luck,
Pat
Carroll's Half Pints Rabbitry
http://www.carrollshalfpints.weebly.com

[rekoyu]

We never had a problem with our rabbits. There is no chance that she would eat her babies. Just make sure you dont keep them with you for a long time.

[Kasper]

I also have no problem .........With my Bunny Rabbit .Nice information .

[sfd421]

(08-13-2009 01:23 AM)katie Wrote:  [/color][/size][/font]Hello,
I am completly new to this so please answer in detail. I have a pregnant doe thats 6 months old and she has bred with a 2 year old male, I know the age gap isn't great but she's bigger than him anyway. I have researched this loads and I get different answer's everytime. Can you touch the kits before they leave the nest or will they get eaten? Thanks

Yes, you can touch the babies. The mother knows your scent and she knows that you aren't a threat. She will be concerned so don't handle them a lot though.

[MelissasRabbitry]

I have raised rabbits ever since I was a kid, and even as a kid I loved to take out the babies and play with them. Even when I took them into another room and played with them for an hour the mother always took them right back in. I think the mommas actually enjoy having little breaks from the babies sometimes.

[betta]

i agree that mom will never eat the babies although we frequently touch the them. But for some unknown factors THERE'RE mom who eat their kits. Usually it's rarely occured