pregnacy

[iloveallrabbits]

Howcan you tell if a rabbit is pregnant?

 

[Bramble Briar86]

by Palpating....follow this link, it'll explain:

http://islandgems.net/palpating.html

Ellie

 

[iloveallrabbits]

i cant figue out how to do that:?

 

[iloveallrabbits]

i cant figue out how to do that:?

 

[dajeti2]

The only thing I can think of is get her to a vet and let a vet check her out. Good luck.

Tina

 

[iloveallrabbits]

but there are no vets in our area

 

[lizabeth332]

how far is she along?

there are ways to tell if your doe took or not, but whatever you dodon't test breed. Some people will test breed by putting thedoe and the buck back together 2 weeks later. they figurethat if the doe refuses the buck that she is pregnant and if sheaccepts then she is not. WRONG!!! sorry, but just because adoe refuses a buck ABSOLUTLEY DOES NOT MEAN that she ispregnant! AND the other way around. sure, USUALLY adoe will not accept the buck if she took, but sometimes shemight. The danger in test breeding is this: it is possiblefor a doe to become double-pregnant. I have had this happenbefore. she is already pregnant when she is bred again at twoweeks. the second litter will usually be born with the firstand will be undeveloped. besides it is hard on thedoe. Once in a while i might put the doe back on a table witha buck, just to see how she reacts to him being there, but i won't letthem mate.

Behavior--my first clue that a doe is pregnant is herbehavior. sometimes from day one, she may grunt like crazy atyou or any other rabbit. I like to think that she is tellingme something. telling me that she has a surprise for me andshe's not happy about it and its all you and that stupid buck's faultso there! She might snap at you, "swat" you, or refuse to come out ofher cage. I like that when i see it!

But, the only sure way of knowing if the doe is pregnant or not is bypalpating her. Palpating is something that is hard todescribe, it is best learned by watching others do it. I haveread many accounts of people's methods of palpating and am only nowgetting the hang of it, cuz i never watched anyone do it. seethe purina mills website atwww.rabbitnutrition.comfor in-depth palpating instructions. Also seewww.islandgems.net/palpatingI don't do it quite like either of those ways: everybody's style is alittle different. The way i do it is i face the does headtoward me, and i feel around her stomach keeping my four fingers closetogether. i feel the kits between my fingers and thumb. youneed practice, and need to be fairly agressive. their headsare the easiest to feel. I know someone who feels the wholeabdomen between their thumb and fingers, sqeezing it. She doesn't feelthe individual kits, but just can feel if there is anything in there ornot. People really experienced at palpating can feel the kitsat 10 days after breeding, however most people can palpate at twoweeks. be very gentle palpating within a week of the due dateso you do not risk injuring the kits.

 

[iloveallrabbits]

thanks for that information

i am still confused because she is being so nice to me today she is chining me, licking me and not biting

 

[lizabeth332]

when is she supposed to have babies?

 

[iloveallrabbits]

i am not sure but i had a question about my angel being real moody and they thought she is 100% pregnant

and what does preggers mean?

 

[bluebird]

I usually always test breed.I have never had adwarf doe have a double litter,have been raising rabbits twenty someyears.Usually pregnant does wont remate.bluebird

 

[RusselandRoxy]

Hey,

preggers means pregnant! When i tried to test breed once, my doe gotvicious and bit my buck - he ended up getting a huge swollen face andquite ill!!! They didnt breed though - she wouldnt give in!

Leanne

 

[iloveallrabbits]

how silly it is that femal rabbits get so aggressive when a buck wants to mate with them i guess its just nature

 

[bunnylover78642]

I am having the same problem. I can't tell if sheis pregnant or not though. She was bred 8 days ago. So should I be ableto tell or not by now? I am about to check out those two websites and Ihope they help!

 

[NLinerox16]

Ya, but you have to be careful with the palpatingthing, cause some people don't know how to do it and you can sometimesdo it wrong and you could kill the babies.

I also breed Mini rexs and when I breed the doe I always put the doeback with the buck, usally the same day she was bred or later. And ifshe resists then I know she is pregnant. But I have never heard of adouble pregnantsy (sp?) But you do have to be careful when you do thatcause sometimes the doe does get pretty nauty and can or will bite ordo worse to the buck.

 

[lizabeth332]

bunnylover, some people canpalpate as early as 10 days, but most people can do it by 2 weeks.

NLinerox16 wrote:

Ya, but you have to be careful with the palpating thing, causesome people don't know how to do it and you can sometimes do it wrongand you could kill the babies.

Actually, for the first like three weeks of pregnancy it is really hardto injure the kits! Most people who can't palpate are notagressive enough, for fear that they will hurt the babies.

I also breed Mini rexs and when I breed the doe I always put the doeback with the buck, usally the same day she was bred or later. And ifshe resists then I know she is pregnant.

I do thattoo--but that doesn't ALWAYS mean that she IS pregnant.Double pregnancy can happen! "rabbits are rabbits" (quoting BobBennet...tho i don't always agree with that statement...like rightnow...when i cant get live babies...)

But you do have to be careful when you do that causesometimes the doe does get pretty nauty and can or will bite or doworse to the buck.

Yup.:?:shock: