Pictures of Rabbits Building their Nests

[Carolyn]

Hello Friends,

Some of my absolute FAVORITE pictures of rabbits are those that havetheir mouths stuffed with hay as they go about making their nests.

Does....Bucks...it doesn't matter. I want to see them.

If you have any, could you please post them in this thread for my amusement?

Many Thanks.

:sunshine:

-Carolyn

 

[MyBabyBunnies]

I might as well start.

My gender confused buck, Spice:

 

[slavetoabunny]

This is Bunster - a rabbit of mine who is at the Bridge:

 

[TinysMom]

I don't have pictures - I'm usually too busysitting and staring at them as they do it. Art swears one ofthe main reasons I breed is I like to watch rabbits build their nests.

Silly man...he knows me too well...



Peg

 

[I LuV MaH BuNs]

 

[doodle]

:sunshine: I can see why these are some of your favorite pictures!

They are sooo cute!

 

[bluebird]

I love seeing bunnies make a nest.I Really like the buck picture who knew somebody else had a crazy buck too.bluebird

 

[Johncdn]

The only time Willow ever built a nest was justafter she got over a case of intestinal blockage and she was runningaround crazy/happy

 

[Lissa]

This picture is HILARIOUS! Look at her go!! Hahaha!

 

[MyBabyBunnies]

I got more pictures... lol. Last time Spice wasbuilding a nest, he was in the double hutch because Zoey was inquarentine in the single hutch. Well once her 2 weeks were up, I movedZoey into the double hutch and Spice back into the single hutch. Wellin the process of doing that, I had to destory Spice's masterpiece,lol. Today I looked out before going to feed and guess what? He'sbuilding another nest! :shock:

I'm starting to think he can sense a change in weather coming becauselast time he did that, we had snow a few days later. So here is Spicebuilding his second nest in less than 3 weeks...

(Sorry 'bout the wire in the next one, I didn't want to disturb him.)

In the one below, he was trying to get into his box but couldn't with all the hay in his mouth.:laugh:

I even got a video of him because I couldn't get a good picture so I will post that when it is finished uploading!

 

[Lissa]

These pictures are so incredibly cute. :inlove:

 

[AmberNBuns]

:inlove: What awesome pictures!
Theodore does not build like that. I put a pile of hay down for him andhe burrowed into it once. Unfortunately I never got a pic of it - (ourdigi cam got stolen) After that, he decided he wanted to be on topof the hay, so I caught him patting it all down with his front paws.Wish I coud show you guys. :?

Now when I pull a piece of hay from his bed he gets very annoyed withthe "mess" I made and has to immediately fix it the way he likes it.LOL.

 

[MyBabyBunnies]

MOST males don't do what Spice does... :?He's sort of gender confused...

 

[Pet_Bunny]

Pebbles doesn't doit because I never leave enough hay forher to play with.

 

[bunsforlife]

Oh my! I have never had any of my buns build a nest but it is so funny to see those pictures =)

Maybe mah dear sweet Bonnie will start with it hehe

 

[BunnyMom]

Thanks for this post, Carolyn! I waswondering what the heck Skittles has been doing lately carrying arounda clump of hay in her mouth. I'll have to get a pic and postit.

 

[MyBabyBunnies]

Ok, the video of Spice collecting hay is now ready!

Click here:

http://video.freevideoblog.com/player.aspx?fileid=B5816AC1-E34D-469A-89F8-0FAA3D555884

(It's on a video blog site because it's the pnly place I could find to upload it.)

 

[Nicky Snow]

MBB- that vid is sooo cute! Would love to see more of Mocha, Spice, and Zoey.

 

[bunsforlife]

omg that is just so cute! Poor GenderChallenged thing... either that or he knows that men are becoming stayat home dads more and more often

 

[Bassetluv]

These pics are adorable! I can understand whyyou wanted to see photos of bunnies building nests, Carolyn...there'sjust something about it that is so sweet.

Unfortunately I don't have any pics to share, but do have a brief story...

I had an odd thing happen once with a doe. She was in the midst ofbuilding her nest andpreparing for birth, so I left her aloneto do her work. Fortunately I decided to take a peek in sometime laterto see how she was doing. However, instead of finding a contented newmom, I found her cowering in the back of her hutch, looking terrified,and in the shadows something looked odd...her face was askewsomehow.So I took her out and looked at her more closely, anddiscovered that she had stuffed her mouth so full of hair that itbecame a huge impacted wad...she couldn't even shut her mouth. I had toget tweezers and gently remove it for her, afew clumps at atime. I was totally amazed at the amount of hair that came out of her,the poor thing. But she seemed so grateful afterwards, and went on tofinish her nest and have a healthy litter. It's the onlytimeI've ever seen anything like that happen...