Pregnant for THAT long?!

[Rattiemattiesrattery]

Ok so about 6 weeks ago I had my male Vlop escape his cage while the girls were out playing... yesterday I found a 1 week old baby hidden in my girls cage *the momma had a tendency to pull fur since her litter in Jan* and so I didn't look in the fur until I was cleaning yesterday...

Then yesterday her sister was giving birth to some kits *both died* now it was almost 6 weeks ago *tomorrow actually* that they had been around that male, and they haven't been around any others, They are either outside or in my room, and the boys are in the living room. So is it really possible for them to be pregnant for that long?

 

[lelanatty]

That is very strange. You never know what those crazy rabbits are going to come up with next to befuddle us.

Probably the reason the 6 week kits died was because they were inside the doe for so long.

And the baby that is 1 week old must be a miracle baby if it managed to stay inside the doe for 5 weeks and still live.
:?:scared::faint:

 

[Rattiemattiesrattery]

yeah, well she actually had two, but one had died due to the other does I have in there fighting over the baby. So I was just counting the one that was still alive.
She is so cute though, Looks like mom with a small hint of dad in there.

 

[OakRidgeRabbits]

The longest gestation that I've heard of in which kits were successfully kindled was about 34-35 days, I don't remember exactly.

Does will not go a week or two over their due date and kindle live babies, although they may deliver dead kits that were retained during a previous pregnancy.

 

[Rattiemattiesrattery]

well my older girl had the baby that is still alive, *has velvety fur like the dad*
and the sister had babies that were all gross and dead. *the older girl is a month older, the people I got her from, were just kinda letting them breed >_<*

 

[CiaraPatricia]

Are you sure the baby is a week old, and not two weeks old?

 

[Rattiemattiesrattery]

Yes, I SCRUB their cage clean every week, and I normally dump their litter box every day, but I have been redoing my floors in the living room and kitchen, so they just got scooped and not dumped.

 

[leo9lionheads]

I have heard of a few cases like this this year. One was a dwarf hotot that went a week and a half over due and have 7 live babies but they all died of being chilled to long on the wire (all found alive).
Then a friend of mine bred to my dwarf buck the day I bred one of my does to him my doe had 2 kits on the due date and my friends doe had 4 kits 2 weeks late, 3 normal 1 peanut all but the peanut lived.

The dwarf hotot I only heard about at a show but I am positive about my friends doe as I bred to the same buck on the same day.

 

[Rattiemattiesrattery]

Well she was black looking like momma a few days ago and small, now she is where mom easily gets to her and she is growing FAST! She has tripled in size since I found her. These are her from last night
Sorry for some of the background pics, we're tearing up the floor and redoing it. >_<

 

[lelanatty]

Very cute baby! She will be a Chestnut color it looks like. Chestnuts always start out looking black.

 

[Rattiemattiesrattery]

lelanatty wrote:

Very cute baby! She will be a Chestnut color it looks like. Chestnuts always start out looking black.

Aww so she will look like her Auntie, which is a chestnut. ^_^ Cute

 

[CiaraPatricia]

Very cute and very fat belly

 

[Rattiemattiesrattery]

Definitely a chestnut like her Auntie.

She is about 3 weeks old now. and she is HUGE. Since she was the only baby, she was the only one getting food. She has fur in between Mom and dad's and is fat! I actually had to cut her back from eating off mom because she got so fat that her rolls were stopping her from opening her eyes. *she had them open, but she couldn't hold them open for more then a few seconds*
This is her as of Yesterday

 

[lelanatty]

Haha! she is so cute!

 

[CiaraPatricia]

She is so so cute