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Overrun with beasties
I use the hands off approach, I guess, to breeding my rabbits. I put the nest box in the cage at 29 days...I fill the box with a good quality grass hay...the doe jumps in almost immediately and begins to eat some of the hay making a hole in the middle. She then starts the hair pulling to line the box..almost all my does kindle on days 31...I check the box on the morning of day 31...The does don't like me putting my hands in the box but I do anyway...I count the kits and inspect them; removing any DOA and possibly any "peanuts"....I check the nest box everyday and remove the kits one at a timeholding all of them for a few minutes, much to the dismay of the doe...at 10 days the kits eyes should be open again they are handled everyday...at eyes open +11 I remove the nest box...again I try to handle all the kits everyday...I start to wean at eyes open +39 days and end at EO +46...left unsaid the doe is rebred at EO+32....I raise netherland dwarfs. So the litter size is small,I averaged 5 kits per litter with the average of 3 that were viable...This is after the peanut cull...I weaned 3 kits per litter which was exactly the amount I kept every litter.....I have 4-5 litters per doe per year depending on my schedule... I have a smokey pearl doe that just got her nest box this morning....I will take a picture of her progress...should be some hair pulling already.....
so here is misty...her tattoo is J48...she is a smokey pearl Ndwarf
she is pictured ontop of her nest box which I introduced this morning...no hair pulling yet.
she was bred on 8/4/9 to Bob...his tattoo is QD...he is a black otter Ndwarf: picture below
this is misty's 4th litter this year...
#1 She kindled 1/17/9...2 kits kept...weaned 2...sold to a 4h'er
#2 she kindled 4/21/9...5 kits born...kept 3...weaned three..2 sold 1 kept: picture below
he is a black silver marten and I plan on keeping him.
#3 she kindled 7/2/9...3 kits...kept all three...sold 1 to a breeder:
these are the 2 does left...one is a blue otter and the other siamese silver marten...I will be keeping both of these.
stay tuned...we will see what happens with #4....then I think she gets the rest of the year off...
forgive the picture quality...I used my phone
so here is misty...her tattoo is J48...she is a smokey pearl Ndwarf
she is pictured ontop of her nest box which I introduced this morning...no hair pulling yet.
she was bred on 8/4/9 to Bob...his tattoo is QD...he is a black otter Ndwarf: picture below
this is misty's 4th litter this year...
#1 She kindled 1/17/9...2 kits kept...weaned 2...sold to a 4h'er
#2 she kindled 4/21/9...5 kits born...kept 3...weaned three..2 sold 1 kept: picture below
he is a black silver marten and I plan on keeping him.
#3 she kindled 7/2/9...3 kits...kept all three...sold 1 to a breeder:
these are the 2 does left...one is a blue otter and the other siamese silver marten...I will be keeping both of these.
stay tuned...we will see what happens with #4....then I think she gets the rest of the year off...
forgive the picture quality...I used my phone