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Bo B Bunny wrote: i have to do this 1 by 1 as there are 8 to feed, so can only hold 1 at a time...so you can imagine its hard keeping mum happy for that amount of time! :nerves1

Luv-bunniz wrote: yes i did, i gave her a carrot aswell as me stroking her...how do i know shes producing milk though???..i looked at her teats and they are quite small and very white....

ive got 8 baby rabbits born yesterday afternoon...went out there this morning and looks like mum hasnt fed them, instantly you take the fur from on top of them and the squirm about really quickly and bellys wrinkly...advice given on here last night was to wrap a baby in a towel and try and place...

polly wrote: i will try and do this tomorrow when i check on them, but what if the hay that they are nesting in i.e around or under them, what if that has blood on, should i disturb babies and remove the stained hay???...if hand feeding them is the last resort, how do i know when the last...

thanks guys...ive put the box in now...i never touched babies just lifted the whole nest up and put them in the box lined with a couple of towels for extra warmth and padding...it has a low entrance but high sides so should be ok...the only thing i noticed was as i lifted the nest up it was wet...

if putting the babies in like a shoe box to prevent them crawling out and to keep them warm, how would mum still be able to feed them???...i really need advice asap, as 2 died from the previous litter due to them crawling out...ive just checked them and they r still huddled together...im just...

bunnybunbunb wrote: ive just checked them and yes still warm buried under alot of hay...no this morning wasnt freezing here, just hope it stays that way!

no, they cant reach each other, both their hutches are next to each other so they cant even see each other...she was about 9mths old first time and shes now 1 year old...

ok update...bought some more hay so went outside to give her more and noticed she has given birth already!!!...the other 2 litters she had at night so i was suprised she had these in the afternoon...she had placed them in the nest, unfortuantly 2 had died :frown:...but underneath the hay/fur...

this will be my rabbits 3rd litter...the other 2 litters unfortuantly died, reason unknown :cry1:...she fell pregnant again by accident this time...my partner was doing some maintence to her hutch so we put her in the males 2 storey hutch, shutting the top half off to him giving her the bottom...

clevername wrote: ok thank you:)

BlueGiants wrote: ok thanks...

ok so if i was to breed again, should i set up a nestbox this time instead of her building 1 herself?...as 1 of my fears was they could of died due to the cold weather which is why i wanted to bring her in, but cos shes not a very sociable rabbit maybe this is a bad idea and should try a...

DyemondRabbitry wrote: no i wouldnt say she is a very sociable rabbit...the male is so placid and dopey, bless him...but shes alot different...u could say there chalk and cheese, but together they are so in love, its so sweet...hes in his own hutch now cos of the babies and her being pregnant...

DyemondRabbitry wrote: i was thinking that maybe if we decide to breed her again that we should bring her indoors this time so we can keep a better eye on her that way...what do you think?...im not doing it yet, want to give her some more time first...i always used to pet her first and after i...

Flashy wrote: hi again!...yeah thats what conclusion i am coming to now...thats what i thought when i found the dead ones that they have made the others ill and thats why they died, but there was so much hay in there where everytime i cleanedher out and gave freshhay she kept moving it into...

irishbunny wrote: she didnt have a nest box but she had built herself a nest in the bedroom department of the hutch...she pulled her fur out aswell and then when the babies came along she covered them aswell...she covered them that well, that i didnt even know she had them till i saw the hay...

thank you:)... i know i was so upset when this happened as i thought they were fine:(...just hope someone can give me some good advice, preferably someone thats breed french lops before...as previous advice given its taking me in the wrong direction:?

ok, lovely thank you.:)

hi...i have 2 giant french lop rabbits, male and female, (eric and jezabelle)...they are both 9mths old...i wanted to breed them as ive always wanted to be a breeder...i had done research before so i knew what to do and i had lots of advice...now, my rabbit had her first litter and sadly it...