5 Clues to the Pregnant Rabbit

Under Weight Nursing Rabbit 
About 2 weeks after I rescued two rabbits I was surprised with 5 little kits. The buck and doe had been kept in the same cage before I got them, and both ...

Rabbit digs holes and refills them 
I have a doe and a buck, I wanna know if shez pregnant. Shez digging holes, deep holes in our park and then fills it again after some time. I don't know ...

Daisey 
I have 7 does 3 bucks. 3 of my does (first time bred) gave birth. No nest made no fur pulled all kits died by morning. A 4th doe made a nest, pulled fur ...

Doe attacking the buck 
Hi so my doe recently had a failed birth to one kit. It's been 3 days now and I decided to put her husband in back to her cage because they both looked ...

Bunny gave birth to one kit that died 
So my bunny finally gave birth 6 days after she started nesting. I didn't witness her giving birth until probably 30 minutes later. I checked to feed her ...

I am trying to raise meat rabbits for the first time 
and I have 26 rabbits. My females are giving birth outside the kindling boxes, it is cold so I have heat lamps on them but they are dying do you know what ...

Is she having babies tomorow? 
My rabbit is 29 days into the pregnancy and is due tomorrow but we still don't know if its false like before she has done everything but I'll be at school ...

Worried 
I have a rabbit that is due in about 10 days. she has been sat in the same place all day (where she goes the toilet) and she has her eyes closed (which ...

Lisa Bunny 
My male and female live in the same cage. Should I separate them if she is pregnant?

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Yep, we would. Cuz, if you don't, you'll have ...

Rabbit nesting troubles? 
My mini Lop rabbit will be a first time mom this Saturday. She is huge and should have a large litter. I put the nest box in today, day 28, and came out ...

Crossbred black mini lop X thrianta  
Last night I had bred my black mini lop does with my friends thrianta buck. What kinds of
Colours and rabbit types should I expect?
Thanks(:

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AHH!!!!! 
About a month ago, my mom said she had seen a wild bunny in my backyard checking out my domestic females. We occasionally let them out to play, so I'm ...

Lionhead rabbit nesting at day 11 
My lionhead is only 11 days bred and is scratching at her cage and carrying hay around attempting to nest. Is it too early to put her nest box in or since ...

I can't tell if my rabbit is pregnant 
I have a Holland Lop rabbit. She was bred a day prior to getting her. At day 22 she began nesting in a blanket in her cage and pulling out her fur. We ...

What Is With This Bunny? 
I have a beautiful Blue Eyed White Lionhead doe that I breed about 34 days back for the first time but I left her in with the buck for about 3 days. I ...

Is my Rabbit preg? please help 
Hi, I've now bred my rabbit twice - the 1st time it was unsuccessful. I waited a whole 35 days and there were no kits. Now I've mated her for the second ...

Rabbit pregnant with two litters 
I think my doe may be pregnant with two separate litters. How can I tell for sure and what should I do? Will she lose all the kits? Thank you.

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Nesting Troubles 
Hello! I have 2 dutch rabbits, and my doe Little Foot is pregnant. Her and my buck are let into a cage that's bigger than their normal one. So I don't ...

My female rabbit pregnant? 
I have had Pebbles my girl rabbit for almost three months now and she was in with two males. About 2 weeks ago we noticed fur on the floor of their house ...

Confused 
I tried breeding my dwarf hotot female. She only bred once we tried again and she wouldn't but the first time they went until the buck passed out.

She ...

What can I do now I did not count the days 
My bunny has been nesting and pulling out her hair for 4 days now. How long can this go on before I can say she is having a false pregnancy. I did breed ...

Cottontails refuse to breed 
I have raised 6 Missouri cottontails. I got them when they were 6 weeks old. They are 8 months old now. I have 4 females and 2 males. I keep putting females ...

Baby Bunny Nest 
We have a litter of 5 baby bunnies that were born about 2 weeks ago. How long do we have to wait before we can clean out the cage and put all new bedding ...

Help me pls.. : ) 
My rabbit gave birth just this morning. It is her first time to have bunny. 3 of them die and 1 left..I would like to ask if how many days after giving ...

Strange looking rabbit babies? 
I had a rabbit who recently passed away because she had gotten out of her outside cage and we are pretty sure the dogs got her in the night because we ...

Is a shoe box okay for a rabbit nest box??? 
I want to know if a shoe box is okay to use as a nest box, or if it is too small???

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Chances are the shoebox is both too small and ...

Is my doe pregnant? 
My brother's mixed rabbit has humped my mini lop bunny more than one time, but he never fell off of her with a grunt, because we would always get him off ...

Can't get near my doe to check if she's pregnant 
Hi - pretty sure my doe is pregnant as she grunts at me when I try and go anywhere near her but I wanted to get her out to double check today and she tried ...

Pregnant rabbits crave meat 
I've heard that pregnant rabbits crave meat, and to keep them from eating their young a piece of bacon should be hung in their cage a few days before she ...

Pregnant rabbit built her nest 
Hi my rabbit is pregnant and built nest 3 days ago. When do you reckon they will be due?

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My rabbit was bred can she still have a false pregnancy? 
I bred my rabbit for three days and she has shown all of the signs above but I have not palpated her. Can she still have a false pregnancy?

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I thought I had 2 girl rabbits? But...... 
I got 2 bunnies around July 11th. They told me they were 8 wks (approx) old. the lady I got them from checked and told me my white one (Sonny) was a girl....

One of two does was a boy 
Hi, I bought 2 bunnies and was told they were both girls. It was a couple of weeks when I noticed Daisy being strange, as she was so friendly, I took her ...

Rabbit pregnant? 
I have 4 rabbits, 2 females and 2 males. The older female is the younger female and younger males mother but the older male is unrelated. We have decided ...

Babies moving in her Tummy 
OK so I found this house bunny outside and brought her in. I've had her for weeks now. I don't know how far along her pregnancy but I can see babies rolling ...

Rabbit may be pregnant but not eating 
My rabbit mated yesterday and since then it looks like she has not touched any of her food, is this normal? I'm wondering as like me when I was pregnant ...

Mother rabbit won't take care of kits 
My female rabbit has had 2 sets of kits, both she would not take care of and all died. The second set I placed the nest in her cage with good hay, she ...

Rabbit Breeding Behaviour 
I have 2 Netherland Dwarf rabbits. I don't know if my female wants the male around. The male keeps humping on her back, and the female is crying. I don'...

Preemies? 
I bred my does, three of them on the same day the 2nd of May. On the 20th I was surprised to see four kits laying on the cage floor. Three appear to be ...

I don't know if my rabbit mated enough to be pregnant 
Well I put my buck in with my doe in a neutral area. I watched them for a little bit but he wasn't mounting her so I left but didn't check on them for ...

Bunny digging holes 
We have bunnies in the back yard fenced in. I have been seeing one bunny dig a hole and within an hour she or he has filled it back in. Why???

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Pregnant Doe 
My good producing doe always has her kits on the 34th to 35th day. She's had 5 litters and it's been the same every time.

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I am Worried About my Rabbit 
Hello, I have a Mini-Rex Doe that is a day past due. She is moving around the hay in her nest box but not pulling fur. I am for sure there is kits in her ...

Is this a pregnant rabbit clue 
I just put the nest boxes in the cages of my two satin does. One of them started digging in the hay, and may have picked some up, but then she laid down ...

Palpating a rabbit - what am I feeling? 
Hi, I have a question. My rabbit is a dwarf rabbit. So I'm not sure it is pregnant or not. I tried to check its belly, I can feel something like a grape ...

Holland lop is pregnant? 
I have a Holland Lop brood doe that is two years old and a proven mom. I had my aunt palpate her stomach. She said there were little balls the size of ...

My doe is more aggressive than my buck  
My doe is bigger at 2kg than my buck 1.5kg. every time I try mating them, my doe always is the aggressor (I put my doe to buck's cage), she always running ...

Mini Rex Rendezvous with Jackrabbits 
I have two female mini rex rabbits. I just discovered they have been getting out at night and meeting up with jack rabbits. I have fixed the problem of ...

Nest Box Question 
My rabbit took all her straw out of her nesting box and built a cool nest in the corner of her huge cage.

Is that okay or does that mean she will be ...

Found Rabbit Now Building Nest 
I rescued two rex rabbits and a giant british rabbit from the side of the road. I had them checked at the vets and it turned out 1 of the rex rabbits was ...

Netherland dwarf pregnant? 
I'm preparing to put my Netherland Dwarf doe, Billie's, nesting box in her cage tonight. I believe she is pregnant but I really was not sure what to feel ...

Rabbit palpated by vet and 35 days post breeding 
I have a Holland Lop that is not delivering. I am hopeful that she will deliver them since she is still eating, drinking, urinating and pooping. I know ...

Proof rabbits can give birth late 
My doe and buck mated in august. No babies. Middle of august, no babies. So we thought she had false pregnancy. No fur pulled. No nest ready. So we left ...

My rabbit might be pregnant by her brother 
I THINK MY RABBIT IS PREGNANT TO HER BROTHER, I THINK THE PET OWNER I GOT THEM FROM SEXED THEM WRONG, THEY WERE APPARENTLY SUPPOSED TO BE 2 GIRLS...

Do pregnant rabbits thump their feet? 
Do pregnant does thump one of their back feet if they are pregnant?

I think my Mini Rex rabbit is pregnant! 
My female Mini Rex rabbit just mated with a mini lop rabbit. I'm very worried that my rabbit won't make it through the pregnancy, should I worry about ...

Does the rabbit nest need hay? 
I use wood chips in our rabbit hutch. I just found four newborn rabbits in the inside of the hutch with some fur around them. I am wondering if I should ...

Is my rabbit pregnant? 
I have had my doe Mysti since she was 7 weeks old. She is all grown up and over a year old and so well behaved. She is house trained although she has a ...

Rabbitry Software? 
I'm looking for software to track the lineage, pedigrees, expenses, sales etc... Also a way to figure out who I can breed with who to not have any inbreeding ...

Is our doe too young? 
We bought 2 does & a buck from a breeder that shows rabbits. These are good quality rabbits with papers & great imprinting. None of them are related, but ...

Not sure if my rabbit is pregnant?  Not rated yet
I bred my two rabbits a couple of months ago, but it didn't take after several tries. The bunnies got along really well so I ended up leaving them together ...

Mini lop first time birth  Not rated yet
On the first of January my mini lop had seven babies and one dead one that was eaten half way. We didn't know that she was pregnant and there was a lot ...

Rabbit building a nest in the wrong place  Not rated yet
My pet rabbits accidentally mated on Dec. 15th. Now today I saw my female rabbit, (she's 22 days pregnant), frantically gathering hay and building her ...

HELP!  Not rated yet
2 days ago my bunny suddenly gave birth (I had no idea she was even pregnant!). She had 1 baby 2 days ago and had another yesterday. They both died:( I ...

Why is my doe pulling fur?  Not rated yet
The way you can be almost positive that your doe will be pregnant, from about the 24th day after breeding, is when she pulls fur from her belly and places ...

Day 31?  Not rated yet
I had bred my mini lop with a thrianta and she was due yesterday? I would say we had bred her at 5:30-6:00 on November 15.
It is now the 17th of December ...

Rescued Rabbit might be Pregnant  Not rated yet
I recently took in a Netherland dwarf buck and a Dwarf/Rex doe. They had been kept in the same cage for over a month before I got them. I think the doe ...

How do I know if my rabbit is pregnant?  Not rated yet
I have 2 rabbits. At first I thought both of them were does. Last night I saw one of them pulled fur from the other's back and sex with each other. My ...

Holland Lop First Breeding  Not rated yet
I am trying to breed my Holland lops. The female is 6 months old, and the male is 8 months old. I have put them together several times, but none have been ...

Help preventing rabbit pregnancy  Not rated yet
We a have a dwarf rabbit (girl) and we just got a black (male) rabbit. He's 11 months old. We're not trying to breed so how can we prevent it - we'd like ...

My doe is pulling ALL of her neck fur out  Not rated yet
Hi there,
My (I think) pregnant Californian doe is pulling out ALL of her neck fur. Its starting to look really nasty. She's not pulling out any stomach ...

My four month old bunny died suddenly  Not rated yet
Two days ago, I got a small 4 month old bunny. He seemed great until today, when I found that he had died. I am so very upset and I have absolutely no ...

Pregnant Doe  Not rated yet
We just bought a doe and she is pregnant, but no one could tell us how far along or when she was bred, So now what do I need to do????? Thanks for a GREAT ...

1st breeding  Not rated yet
Hi there I've just bred my buck and doe lopped rabbits, would you know what kind of colours the kits could be, as I find they both have beautiful colours ...

helppppp!!!!!!!  Not rated yet
How do you take care of a wild rabbit that's pregnant???????

****Karen Sez****

If it were me, I think I'd release it back into the wild and let ...

Sassafrass!  Not rated yet
I had 2 rabbits, Sassy and Sophie. Day before yesterday I went out and found 4 babies dead in the bottom of the cage. I was told both of them were girls,...

Confused about my bunny  Not rated yet
My bunny is pregnant for the second time now and I cant figure out who got her pregnant. I had two boys and one died. But now I don't know if she is pregnant ...

Mother rabbit   Not rated yet
My rabbit just gave birth to 6 babies for the first time and they all died the buck is also dead and one of mom's rabbit eye is bigger than the other she ...

I can't tell if my rabbit is pregnant - 2  Not rated yet
This was my first question I asked on 10/27/11

I have a Holland Lop rabbit. She was bred a day prior to getting her. At day 22 she began nesting in ...

My Rabbits Pregnant But Wont Have Her Babies  Not rated yet
Hi! My kids got a beautiful sweet pet New Zealand female. We didn't know she was pregnant until last Sunday when she was frantic to build a nest, and pull ...

Bred Buck 3 days ago and now he's not interested in breeding  Not rated yet
Hi - I have a 1 1/2 year old NZ Buck and bred him 3 days ago and just tried to breed him yesterday and he acted like he had no interest. Also I can tell ...

Taj Majal Bunny Nest  Not rated yet
My Pepper bunny appears to be pregnant. Piglet, the buck was de-sexed today so hopefully this will be the last little accident. (I do not have the gift ...

My doe is tearing my buck's hair out  Not rated yet
I have a doe I bought from a stock market. She is going on 7 months old. I have a white long haired lion head buck who is 9 months. The other day I noticed ...

What to do when rabbit gave birth?  Not rated yet
My rabbit gave birth to four babies. Only one is alive, why? There's only hay and bedding in the cage...does she need anything?

****Karen Sez****
Sorry ...

I can't tell if my sister's bunny Amina is pregnant  Not rated yet
She has been bunched up in the corner of her cage and all of a sudden she started scratching the bottom of the cage for no reason, she turned all the food ...

My rabbit dug a hole and won't come out!   Not rated yet
What's wrong? She has been in the hole for the past 3 days! She has been with a male rabbit for at least 3 weeks! So I don't know if she is pregnant or ...

Bunnies in colonies  Not rated yet
If I have a bunch of girls in one pen and they all are pregnant and they have their babies in the same cage with others in it will they kill each other?...

Lop eared rabbit - new mother  Not rated yet
We were told we had 2 girls, went to cage during the week to find we had at least 7 babies. Removed the rabbit we now know is a boy and rushed out to buy ...

My rabbit gave birth to 3 kits but I'm worried...  Not rated yet
My rabbit just gave birth to 3 kits. One died but two are still alive. My rabbit won't get near the kits at all. I knew she was pregnant but I was waiting ...

41 days our rabbit is still pregnant  Not rated yet
She is huge. We think it is because she is a dwarf and the dad is a giant. She is pregnant for sure. She shows all signs and we can see them move. We don'...

Rabbit Isolation??  Not rated yet
My doe is expecting, she is with another female, does she need to be separated? Or can she kindle with the other doe in her hutch?
Thanks!

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My Little Surprise  Not rated yet
Well just recently my doe a flemish giant started picking up straw and moving it around in her bed and I found some fur in there I am a bit scared if she ...

Animal Lover  Not rated yet
We rescued an abandoned sable point mini rex. The animal control personnel said it was a boy...yea!

After further investigation he is really a SHE.

My ...

My Rabbit Pulling Fur  Not rated yet
My Rabbit has just turned one. She has had no contact with boy rabbits apart from when she was like 6 weeks old, and that was a wild boy rabbit. Since ...

Pregnant by a larger male rabbit  Not rated yet
We had two babies in a cage together thinking they were too young to breed. Now my doe is pregnant and the buck is larger than her. Will she be able ...

I feel awful, but I had no idea  Not rated yet
We had our rabbits in May this year from the same litter. At the time, we thought they were both girls, despite calling them Boris and Doris! They were ...

Getting rabbits into the breeding mood  Not rated yet
I have two does and one buck that I'm trying to breed. One doe is a dwarf floppy ear and the other is a lion head. The buck is a lion head also. The dwarf ...

Rabbit refuses buck  Not rated yet
My doe won't let the buck anywhere near her, why is that? We tried to breed them before and thought she conceived because she started picking up hay in ...

HELP: Did my rabbits breed?  Not rated yet
We put my female mini lop in with my male a few days ago. He would mount her, get off, hop around and go back. However, the doe never stretched out or ...

Baby Bunnies?  Not rated yet
My female rabbit was put with my male rabbit only once, but it was for about half an hour. The female is normally very friendly but in her previous 2 litters ...

Are pregnant rabbits aggressive?  Not rated yet
I want to know if rabbits get aggressive and look huge when they are pregnant.

***Karen Sez***
Thanks for asking -- Whether or not a pregnant doe ...

What a pleasant and informative place to gather information!  Not rated yet
I truly enjoyed your presentation of 'bunny' facts.'
So very nicely put, well thought out and informative without being stuffy and dry.

What a nice ...

Weirdest part of my life  Not rated yet
Hi my name is Emily
My rabbit died and 5 months ago and a week later I got these 2 bunnies from the same litter, 'Tinker Bell' and 'Cinderella.' We got ...

May be pregnant rabbit but not eating?  Not rated yet
Hi, my rabbit is around 21-22 weeks old and has been away for two week (she came back on Sunday) due to me being away in Wales with army cadets. She stayed ...

First Pregnant Rabbit  Not rated yet
Our rabbit, if she is pregnant, should be having the kits anytime now, and I am worried that this being her first time giving birth, and she being somewhat ...

Do I need to separate the male and female rabbits after she gives birth?  Not rated yet
I did not know she was pregnant and she had 8 and 1 passed. I thought I had two boys until I saw her nesting today and then a few hours later there were ...

Pregnant rabbit passing blood  Not rated yet
Hi, I'm pretty sure my rabbit is pregnant and ready to give birth. She has a round hard tummy and is laying down all the time. I noticed gooey blood where ...

My Rabbit is Making a Nest  Not rated yet
My girl rabbit's making a nest, but there's no fur. When will she start to lose fur and have babies?

***Karen Sez***
Well, assuming she's pregnant,...

My lionhead rabbit just had 7 kits  Not rated yet
She made her nest in her litter box, but it was clean and just full of hay and fur. Should I leave them in the nesting box or take them out and put them ...

Is my rabbit pregnant or not?  Not rated yet
Hi, I have a 7 month old girl rabbit and a 5 month old boy rabbit. We put them together to breed not knowing the age? All of the answers on the internet ...

2 girl rabbits  Not rated yet
I have got 2 girl rabbits and 1 has got all of these clues and is growling at me what do I do? It has started to build a nest and I wonder how many weeks ...

Baby kits born over 3 days are dead  Not rated yet
My rabbit had a baby Saturday morning around 11am. Sometime Saturday night/early Sunday morning she had another one. I found it dead and the one she ...

My 2 bunnies 1 female 1 male are they allowed to hump each other backwards?  Not rated yet
Today it came to me that my two bunnies want to mate but I certainly don't permit that so I don't let them. So when we do let them out they often tend ...

My doe wants to breed more, is she pregnant?  Not rated yet
Hi, I bred my rabbit 2 two days ago and she's not acting aggressive but when she saw the male outside of her cage she wanted to breed with him again. I ...

Pregnant doe?  Not rated yet
I have a doe, she's been my pet for at least a year now, and I've bred her to bucks many times. I started trying when she was one, and she's around two ...

Rabbit Mom with Singleton  Not rated yet
Hi, my rabbit has always had up to 7 babies at least. This time she has only had 1 - is this normal?

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Hi Leanne, a litter of ...

Are pregnant does affectionate?  Not rated yet
Just a few hours after breeding my doe Mist with my buck Storm, I put her in her fence to get a nibble of grass. But, when I went to put her back in her ...

Taliaferro's rabbits   Not rated yet
Hi, I am Tammy and I was trying to find out just how long it takes for a rabbit to have her babies and just how to really tell if it took. I found what ...

My rabbit is pregnant to her brother  Not rated yet
This is her second time shes pregnant.
The 1st time didn't go well at all.
The 3 little ones died, but we didn't know who the dad was to them. Do you ...