Augustus&HazelGrace
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My rabbit Hazel-Grace is one of my breeding does, she has always done great. Her babies are 3 weeks old. Before she was fat, I put her on a diet about two months before I bred her, because of the whole thing where if there is a lot of fat on the uterus, but she was still on the heavier side about a couple of pounds overweight I'd say. Here in the past week, she has dropped a lot of weight, I can see her spine and feel her hips. She was getting 2 cups of pellets and free fed hay during the winter, I cut her down to 1 cup 2 months before she was bred and now she is on free feeding due to having babies, I also give her 1/8 cup of oats every night for making milk, she has a litter of 6. The babies are very small compared to my other litter who was born on the same day. Hazel is 3 years old and is a Rex/Mini Rex mix. Do you think that it is just because of her age and shouldn't be bred anymore or maybe an underlying cause? She has not been anywhere besides in a playpen in my yard. Also, idk if this has anything to do with any of it but we have been finding wild baby bunnies just lying around the yard and we don't know why they died, no predator marks or anything.