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Right weight?

ajr231

Young Bun
Hi just wondered if people thought my rabbits' weight is about right.
They are miniature lop crosses (so i'm not sure what size they'll grow to be). I had them weighed at the vet and they are 9ish weeks and weigh o.7 and 0.8 kg respectively.
They don't seem skinny or fat but are quite lithe. Sorry to worry just wanted to check if that's about right.
 
awwwwww tiny.. i think Alvin was about 900g at that age.. cant beleive he was so tiny.. hes a right podger now :lol::lol::lol:
 
Uh that sounds about right if they are small. Pie is a small 10 month old mini lop and she is 1.68kg which is about 3.7lbs which I beleive is the correct weight for her.
 
Sounds about right as theyre mini lop x's :) If the vet wasnt concerned im sure theyre ok :) xXx
 
It's a difficult question to answer really, it's a bit like saying how much should a british woman weigh? There is so much variation, even within breeds, that it's difficult to quantify what is right. According to the BRC breed standard, for example, a netherland dwarf should be "as near as possible to 0.907kg".

My netherland dwarf Dudley weighs 1.3kg - a significant variation from that sizing, but it doesn't make him overweight, it just means that he's a big netherland dwarf. If he weighed 0.907kg he would actually be hideously underweight, even though according to the breed standard, he would be the perfect weight.

What is more important is the constitution of the individual - when you stroke over their back, can you feel the spine? You should be able to feel it a little, but you should not be able to feel hips jutting out or be able to feel along the sides, rather than just the top of the spine - that would indicate an underweight bunny. An overweight bunny might mean that you can't feel its ribs or spine at all, and you may be able to see large folds of skin on the rabbit. Bizarrely, it's quite hard to tell whether a bun is over or underweight just from its belly, they mostly seem to have quite round bellies even if they are starving and dangerously underweight.

So, quite a wordy answer, but really there is so much variation that you could do more harm than good by looking at how much a particular breed "should" weigh and using that as a comparator for whether any individual bun is a healthy weight :)
 
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