| Breeding By Marg Lawton, Courtesy of the Ohio State Rabbit Breeders Association |
• Know why you are breeding, decide correct parents, know what you will do
with the babies.
• Check all animals thoroughly before breeding.
• Breed only healthy, happy, well conditioned animals.
• Always introduce the doe to the buck (take her to him).
Keep the doe's cage clean and keep her well fed and watered. Keep her stress
to a minimum. Do not show her after the second week of conception.
Give her a clean nest box about 25 days after she is bred. Provide plenty of
clean bedding.
• Be sure the box is properly placed and that the doe is not laying in it or
using it as a potty.
• Bunnies will probably be born 28-33 days after breeding (usually 31) probably
at night or mid-afternoon. Does prefer privacy during birth.
• When the doe has completed giving birth and is calmly eating, praise her,
pet her, and gently check the nest for live offspring. Remove any dead or
mutilated babies, as leaving them in the nest can cause disease. ( I then give
the doe her favorite treat.)
• Increase a doe's feed while she is nursing. Keep her in good condition, don't
let her lose excessive weight.
• When the babies begin to come out of the nest box, increase feed to allow
them to eat pellets as well as mom's milk.
• At all times during nursing and weaning, keep straw [or hay] in the pen to
provide fiber and assist in the prevention of enteritis.
• When weaning, take mom from the babies. After a few days, separate
bucks from does. Later separate each to a separate pen.
with the babies.
• Check all animals thoroughly before breeding.
• Breed only healthy, happy, well conditioned animals.
• Always introduce the doe to the buck (take her to him).
Keep the doe's cage clean and keep her well fed and watered. Keep her stress
to a minimum. Do not show her after the second week of conception.
Give her a clean nest box about 25 days after she is bred. Provide plenty of
clean bedding.
• Be sure the box is properly placed and that the doe is not laying in it or
using it as a potty.
• Bunnies will probably be born 28-33 days after breeding (usually 31) probably
at night or mid-afternoon. Does prefer privacy during birth.
• When the doe has completed giving birth and is calmly eating, praise her,
pet her, and gently check the nest for live offspring. Remove any dead or
mutilated babies, as leaving them in the nest can cause disease. ( I then give
the doe her favorite treat.)
• Increase a doe's feed while she is nursing. Keep her in good condition, don't
let her lose excessive weight.
• When the babies begin to come out of the nest box, increase feed to allow
them to eat pellets as well as mom's milk.
• At all times during nursing and weaning, keep straw [or hay] in the pen to
provide fiber and assist in the prevention of enteritis.
• When weaning, take mom from the babies. After a few days, separate
bucks from does. Later separate each to a separate pen.
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