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Rabbits Giving Birth

Day 31 -- Rabbits giving birth!

Woo hoo! Suddenly you find a pile of fur in the rabbit nest box. And as you watch, the fur wiggles.

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Glorious day--your doe has kindled (given birth). The chances of you ever actually watching your rabbits giving birth are very slim. They'll just wait till you leave before giving birth - they can do that, you know.

Me? At this point I’m dying of curiosity.

  • Are all the kits alive and healthy?
  • How many new kits in the nest box?
  • Is the doe taking care of them?
  • Can I safely check, or handle, the kits?

Amazing events, are rabbits giving birth. Let’s answer these questions, because after your rabbit kindles, you need to ensure the doe and the kits are all fine.rabbits giving birth - Rabbit Nest Box with kits under fur

Are the baby rabbits all alive and healthy?
You need to know, because if there’s a dead kit in the nest, and there might be, you'll need to remove them before they start rotting, smelling and attracting flies.

There could also be a few stray placentas laying around. The doe usually eats them. This apparently increases the correct hormones that she will need for making milk. But if you find any in the nest, and you might if the litter is large, then just pull them out and throw them away. The doe will have nothing to do with it, once she's finished with giving birth and feeding the babies their first 'meal.'

Rabbit kits are born with their eyes and ears sealed shut, and completely furless. Don’t be alarmed at how they look - it'll take them a couple weeks for the fur to grow in enough to keep them warm outside the nest box. Rabbits giving birth - these newborn rabbits are just hours old

Here’s a picture of Xena's kits. They are only hours old, and their tummies are nice and round. This was a litter of 9; one was dead in the nest box.

How many newborn rabbits are there?
Imagine rabbits giving birth to 15 babies! A rabbit litter can number anywhere from 1, all the way to 15. Yes, a couple of our does have kindled 15 kits. No, they didn’t all survive, sadly.

It's just as difficult, rabbits giving birth to just 1 kit. Chances rise that it freezes to death, even in the nest. But one of my does, who had just one kit, sat in her nest and helped keep the little one warm. Smart doe, I thought.

There are ways to help rabbits giving birth to more kits than she can handle. Your outcomes will improve if you remove a few of the babies from the nest, perhaps fostering them to those rabbits giving birth to just a few kits. This gives the stronger kits a better chance at a good start in life, and the weaker ones a better chance at survival.

Here’s how I do it: I let nature take its course for a couple days. At the end of, say, 2 days, it becomes evident which of the kits are not strong. The weaker kits will not be getting their fair share of the doe’s milk, and by, say, 2 days, these kits will have thin abdomens. rabbits giving birth - One of the baby rabbits is too thin

I will remove the scrawny kits from the nest. In this picture of 4-day-old rabbits, the gray bunny has no tummy. You don't want to see such a waist-line! But I'm happy to report that she still managed to get enough milk to do okay. She is still the runt of the litter, but doing very well. She may even turn out to be nice enough to show, once she discovers the delicious rabbit pellets.

Ideally, I reduce the litter size to at most, 10. Sometimes a few more kits become scrawny as well. In this case, the litter might end up numbering around 8. Most does are just fine with 8 kits. That's why I like to have 2 or more rabbits giving birth on the same day. It increases the odds I can foster a few kits to another doe, if necessary.

Is the doe taking care of the baby rabbits?
After rabbits giving birth comes the feeding of the kits, and the doe will likely take excellent care of her babies. But just to be sure, you can check the bellies of the kits. If they have nursed, their little bellies will be round, even distended. rabbits giving birth - Nice full tummy on one baby rabbit

But even if they don’t look full, they might safely go 1 - 2 days before getting a full ‘meal.’ This is probably built into the rabbit as a protective mechanism, since in the wild, the doe might need to stay away from the nest for a while to avoid leading predators to her kits.

Which brings up an important observation for domestic rabbit breeders: Mother rabbits only ever feed their kits once a day, rarely twice, and that for just 5 to 10 minutes. In this short time frame, the kits get their whole day’s milk supply. So, if you never see the doe go near the nest box, but the little kits have round tummies, everything is fine. You don’t need to help nature along. The doe is doing her job while you’re in bed asleep.







Can I safely check on the kits?
What a crazy lot of conflicting information there is on this point!

The answer is: Yes. Here’s how it works:
The doe has spent her 10 minutes in the nest at 11 pm at night. You come along in the morning and check on the kits. Even if you come along in the evening, you can still follow these steps.

  • Give the doe a handful of hay or whole oats (or other favorite treat). This distracts the doe.

  • Remove the nest box from the cage and place on a flat surface.

  • Move the mound of fur aside. If you see any dead baby rabbits or placentas, remove them.

  • Reach down into the deeper recesses of the burrow and pull out all the kits, counting each one.

    • Place them on top of the shavings in front of the burrow, one by one, where you can see them.
    • Observe that there are no dead kits in the back, down in their little sleeping burrow, and if there is, remove them.
    • Check that each kit has a full tummy and seems healthy. If the litter is large, there may be one or two whose bellies are not as full as the others, however hopefully they will have had at least some milk, and you can make a note to recheck in a day.
    • Replace the kits where you found them. Some may have already crawled back down into their burrow. Mound the fur where you found it, over top of the burrow.

  • Put the nest box back into the cage. rabbits giving birth - Rex Rabbit newborn kits
    The doe will come check it out. She might hop in the nest and feed her babies, but chances are better that she won’t return to her babies until late at night.

  • In the meantime, the kits will pick up the scent of their nest again, and lose your scent.

  • If your doe knows you and your scent, and is comfortable with you, the chance is very great that she’ll be completely unimpressed by your scent on the nest box. I have NEVER had a doe reject her litter because I checked the nest box.

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  • If you have doubts, for example, if you acquired a pregnant doe who is unfamiliar to your home, if you never handle the doe, or if you know your doe is skittish or highstrung, then put a dab of vanilla extract on her nose. She won’t be able to smell anything else for a while, they tell me. You can check the kits safely, and they will lose your scent by the time she goes back into the nest to feed them.

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Are there more baby rabbits coming?  Not rated yet
I just want to begin with saying that you have a helpful site. And my question is: my rabbit gave birth this morning, there were 3 but one of them was ...

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Please can I have some quick advice.
One of our 'male' rabbits has just given birth.
She had hid her nest behind her steps so we did not notice. The ...

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I just found 5 or so newborn baby rabbits in our rabbit pen. the pen only has one full grown rabbit in it (the mother). What should I do ... just keep ...

Do male rabbits kill the babies?  Not rated yet
Do the males kill the babies? And should the males be separated from the babies right after birth?

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Dasiy, Mazie and 4 kits  Not rated yet
Hello one and all well my (Dasiy) was pregnant and she give birth to 4 lovely baby kits, so now I have ended up with 6 bunnies, mum, dad and 4 kits, as ...

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My rabbit is due around tomorrow morning or night sometime. I have been trying to figure out if she is pregnant or not. I sure hope she is. And if she ...

A buck lion-lop and a doe stocker market rabbit  Not rated yet
I have a white buck lion-lop rabbit who is going on about 8 months old and I was wanting to get a doe from the stock market and breed them. Will it be ...

A Sad Day for Bunnies  Not rated yet
I recently moved my rabbits to outdoor hutches that are on the ground. We live in a subdivision where there are no real threat of predators so I figured ...

Rabbit pulling fur for kits  Not rated yet
How long after a bunny kindles will she continue to pull out her hair? My bunny kindled yesterday morning, and I was able to watch the whole thing, but ...

Feeding  Not rated yet
My rabbit had 8 kits and I left her alone with them all day. When I came home she hadn't fed them and many were dead. What do I do?

*Moderator Note:...

Does your doe need help?

Most of the time the answer is "no." But sometimes it might take them a while before their instincts kick in. Go to our Helping the Doe Take Care of her Baby Rabbits page for more information.

Learn more about taking care of the baby rabbits - Go to Caring for Baby Rabbits.

We hope this information about rabbits giving birth has been helpful to you...

Enjoy watching your baby rabbits grow and the mother rabbit take tender care of her young!

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