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How did your rabbit make out with her babies ?Was she able to give birth to any live ones ? I know our rabbits firstlitter all died. Her second litter she gave birth to eight and sixsurvived. The first one was born dead a few hours before she gave birthto the next six and then she had one more...

Someone had suggested that blocking her out ofthe nest area altogether for awhile may teach her to start using thewire cage rather than her bed. Does anyone think this might work ? Iknow that I cannot try it now as I wouldn't dare block her from her bedwhen I am not sure when she is dueto...

Hi everyone. Just a question with regards totraining a bunny to not soil in her nest box.Two weeksagomy son Mitchell went to our local area cattle market withhis grandfather and arrived home with another rabbit. This brings us tofour now. Not thinking Mitchells grandfather told him that she...

Just a short note to let everyone know thatAprils second litter of six are all doing well. They are two weeks oldtoday. Sweetest little things in a range of colors from brown &white to grey, black and a mixture of grey, black and white. Mitchell was in a panic the other morning as one of...

Hi ! This is Mitchells mom again with an updateon Mitchells quest to raise a litter of kits. April gave birth againlast night and all appears to be well so far. She had one dead bunoutside the nest box early in the evening so I was fearing the worst.She then proceeded to pull out her fur and...

So sorry to hear about your loss. You mentionedthat you had a dog. I know my mother had a bad experience once with tworabbits in an outside cage. They had a dog too. It never seemedtobotherthe rabbitsand thenoneday while my parents were not home it did get a hold ofthe rabbits legs through the...

I may know very little about rabbits but mychildren have had a number of hamsters over the years. I have fourchildren and all have had at least one hamster. Right now my four yearold daughter has one. He is a teddy bear hamster and a pet of a thing.Marlee takes it out and cuddles him and puts...

My son got his rabbits as pets. Two females andone male. His grandmother used to breed rabbits. One or two litters ayear and give them away. My son misses having the baby bunnies andthought that he would like to have a litter. He has a half a dozenfriends who would like to have one. I thought it...

I am very disappointed and sad. Not near as muchas Mitchell will be when he gets home from school today to find outthat his second bunnies (Tiny) litter of three have all died. Wefigured that she was about to deliver this morning as she was startingto pull hair. I kept checking on her. The last...

April had eight babies and they all died at oneweek of age. They appeared to be fine up until this time. I had givenher quite a bit of fresh hay the day before. I still believe that sheunknowingly piled this on top of her already totally buried babies andsmothered them. It was her first litter...

Just a note to thank all who came forward to giveadvice and consolation a few weeks ago when my sons bunny (April) hadher entire litter die. Mitchell is doing much better and is lookingforward to the arrival of his second litter next week from his otherfemale bunny (Tiny). I really hope all goes...

What is the best thing to use for a nest box? I initially thought of a cardboard box but wouldn't the mama rabbit chew it? Thanks Carolyn J

First of all I would like to thank everyone fortheir support and comments. I am a bit overwhelmed at the response Ihave gotten so quickly. I was told thatMama rabbit is a "meatrabbit". She was born and raised around children and is very tame. Ihadher bred to a dwarfmale. I was told that thiswas...

I had not heard any thing other than leave themalone until I started online today trying to find answers for my son.Even the people who we got the rabbits from and who bredrabbits regularly. So I should pick up and move these babies from dayone to clean the nest? What about the large amount of...

The mother (April) did not appear to be stressedor bothered that I was looking at her babies. I keep them outdoors butshe has a house(wooden) and wire mesh cage. The pen is in a carportwhich is protected from wind and rain. When I lifted the hay on Mondaynight I could feel the warmth rising as...

The babies did appear to be fine before cleaning.At least the five that I could see. This is why I think that themother(April) being as inexperienced as I am at this thought the addedhay should be added to the nest. When I found them dead they seemed tobe buried deeper than usual. This is my...

I had only checked on them the once and that wasthe day that I cleaned out the surrounding box and added more hay. Isaw five little heads and they had grown fur and appeared to be fine.Two nights later I found them all dead. Three of the eight were quite abit smaller in size but had fur the same...

My sons rabbit had a litter of eight a week agoand all were doing well until last night when I checked on them to findthem all dead. This was mama rabbits first litter. Ours as well. I feelso bad. Like it was something I could have prevented. I had notbothered the nest for the first week as...