I need some help =/

[SilverBirchRabbitry]

I know their is already a thread on this but I still need some advice :/
Oprah Bunfree, my black EL doe is due to kindle in 5 days, her last litter they pretty much froze to death.

I have them in wooden hutches in my tiny, uninsulated shed in my backyard.

Their hutches are in the shed. The hutch has like an open compartment and then the house part, but the house is ment for a full grown rabbit, so it's not entirly closed in like a nesting box, it's a lot bigger.

I noticed she was pulling a little bit of fur so I moved her to the smaller hutch and moved the other doe into her hutch.

I lined the bottom of the house part with newspaper, than a layer of papertowel, and then I took an old sweater and used scissors to make it one layer and laid that down in there.

I pretty much did the same thing last time, yet they still froze.

I'm not allowed no matter what to bring her in the house to kindle :/ My dad doesn't care what excuses I give him. Oh and we don't have electricity out there, and my dad says a heater could cause a fire.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

The temperatures are dropping to -13. But it feels like -22 :/

I don't want to lose this litter and I'm so frusterated right now.

 

[SilverBirchRabbitry]

I talked to my dad, he said we could put some type of heating device out there.

We might move her into his garage with the heating thing to be safe.

What is something safe I could use to hear her kits?

 

[mistyjr]

Can you bring her indoors??

 

[mistyjr]

A heating lamp you can

 

[irishbunny]

SilverBirchRabbitry wrote:

I talked to my dad, he said we could put some type of heating device out there.

We might move her into his garage with the heating thing to be safe.

What is something safe I could use to hear her kits?

Did you mean heat or hear the kits?

Heat- A heat lamp, they aren't too expensive
Hear- Baby monitors

 

[katt]

you could put a heating lap like everyone said. or have the babies in a nestbox, and take them to her 2 times a day to be fed.

 

[Pipp]

Check into a Snuggle Safe if you can get one soon.

http://www.snugglesafe.ca/

ETA: Here's a better link re: ordering one, you may want to check with vets and retailers as well.

http://www.snugglesafe.ca/howitworks.htm


While heating up the first one, put a rice sock in the microwave and cover that up and put it out there. Won't hold the heat very long, but long enough to reheat the Snugglesafe.

Also provide a ton of straw, paper towels, etc, for the nest.


sas

 

[irishbunny]

I was going to suggest a snuggle safe but I didn't think ye had them, one of them would be a great idea!

 

[SilverBirchRabbitry]

I ment Heat

Me and my dad are insulating the rabbit house tommorow and sealing the windows. We are redoing the cages & making new, smaller nesting boxes. We are getting a heating lamp and hanging it from the ceiling. The does will be on the top level so their kits will get the most heat
Thanks everyone.
Here's the link to the heating lamp we are getting
http://www.tscstores.com/stage/mainhome.php#loadFG_216761

 

[wooly_queen]

When my flemish had her kits in the winter, we made her nest really warm with shavings and hay then hooked a heat lamp to the cage above them. They were nice and toasty. Of course...there was 13 of them. XD

 

[SweetSassy]

:wave: Hi JAckie.

I love your bunnies name. LOl. I'm glad your dad's re-do'ing the rabbits house.(he gave in, LOl)So they can be warmer and the babies will survive. Can you post pic's??

 

[SilverBirchRabbitry]

xD That could be why Briana Thanks for the advice!

April!!!
Aww thank you! I will definitley post pics ! I will make a new thread when I find my camera :/

*kicks self* I loose everything! *sigh*

 

[Starlight Rabbitry]

Why did you breed her in the middle of winter when you have no place warm for her to kindle? The safest thing for you to do is to be there when she kindles and take them away from her. Bring the babies into the house and only bring them out twice a day for the doe to nurse them. Most breeders who do not have heated barns do not breed in the dead of winter, unless they have means to bring the babies into the house.

Sharon

 

[SilverBirchRabbitry]

I don't have any problems breeding my Lionheads & Nethies in the winter, but them I just seem to have problems with. So I wanted to be sure.