I just noticed yesterday that 4 baby rabbits that are 4 week old have their back hair a little bit wet. Did their mother lick them? Did they lick each other? They also have a container with water inside, did they splash the water or something? Are rabbits known to play with water? As far as I...
the hutch is not off the ground, but even then i think the rats will just climb it if it was off the ground. right now the kits are growing very fast like you can actually notice them getting bigger day by day. i still saw the rats running around sometimes and they're still small. I don't think...
Thanks for your reply yes I'm new here. And just wanted to ask how do other rabbit owners deal with rats. The kits are now 3 weeks old, but the ones who died were when they were still 2 weeks. I also suspect the deaths could've been many factor(rats and overfeeding).
Here is what happened from...
We had a doe gave birth to 8 kits. 1 of them was killed by rat as I saw it with my own eyes. the 7 remaining kits were doing fine for 2 weeks until 3 of them suddenly just died. I'm not even sure if they got overfed, or did the rat bit them or what. We weren't able to remove the 3 dead kits...