Nes
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Please bear with me while I try to explain my situation. My sister mini rex's are living outside with their combined 7 (3 to one & 4 to the other - one sold) 2 month old kits. Recently I noticed (yesterday) I noticed my girls have lost ALOT of condition. Normally they fluctuate up and down quite a bit as they are my first rabbits & I'm figuring out their feeding; but right now they look down-right skinny. However - the kits look fine! so I've sneaking suspecions that the kits are still nursing when I thought they'd been weaned off.
Now I know in other species sometimes maiden moms will not wean until they are pregnant again (just don't konw when to let go
). One of the moms has had another set of kits but they died shortly after birth*. Will the moms do this? continue to feed until they get pregnant again?
*This is the second time my girl(s) have ended up pregnant "accidentally" - it's a long story involving an ex-room mate with male rabbits; basically lacy's first set of kits were killed by my cats because we didn't even know she was pregnant It was very very sad.
The girls are on a diet of grasses, weeds, hay & pellets - all of which they consume ravenously. They are building a tunnel in their pen so they are very very active right now, but I can easily feel their ribs and they feel too light when I pick them up.
They are being kept in a chicken wire enclosure with no bottom, the diggin isn't worrying us as they are very domestic and we're not worried they are going to roam. At any rate they've been in the backyard for 2 weeks and havn't tunneled out yet The moms will be comming out of there as soon as I move back home (in another 2 weeks) I can take them out right now if their health continues to deteriorate but it would be a huge PITA for me to get back and forth to feed them every day right now were as currently I get to spend most of the day with my babies.
Anyway I hope that all made sense. and thanks for any help you guys can offer!
Nes.
Now I know in other species sometimes maiden moms will not wean until they are pregnant again (just don't konw when to let go
). One of the moms has had another set of kits but they died shortly after birth*. Will the moms do this? continue to feed until they get pregnant again?*This is the second time my girl(s) have ended up pregnant "accidentally" - it's a long story involving an ex-room mate with male rabbits; basically lacy's first set of kits were killed by my cats because we didn't even know she was pregnant
It was very very sad. The girls are on a diet of grasses, weeds, hay & pellets - all of which they consume ravenously. They are building a tunnel in their pen so they are very very active right now, but I can easily feel their ribs and they feel too light when I pick them up.
They are being kept in a chicken wire enclosure with no bottom, the diggin isn't worrying us as they are very domestic and we're not worried they are going to roam. At any rate they've been in the backyard for 2 weeks and havn't tunneled out yet
The moms will be comming out of there as soon as I move back home (in another 2 weeks) I can take them out right now if their health continues to deteriorate but it would be a huge PITA for me to get back and forth to feed them every day right now were as currently I get to spend most of the day with my babies. Anyway I hope that all made sense. and thanks for any help you guys can offer!
Nes.
