I had to move some of my rabbits around temporarily recently, because I had to put a guinea pig in their cage, so two of my girls were in a double hutch, that my boy normally lives in. There's a run attached to the front of the hutch, so I just put him in the run (with a little hut to sleep in) and closed the hutch.
But then the other morning I hear a banging noise when I wake up, and go outside, and the boy had opened the hutch and was chasing the girls, who were stamping their feet. Of course I got him out of there, and I hadn't thought he would have been able to get in there. Now maybe they weren't ready to mate, or maybe they already had mated and wanted him to go away . . . because they seemed to not want him there at all!
The girls are 5 months old roughly, there's about two weeks between them, and aren't spayed. So I might well be looking at two unexpected pregnancies. At least they are old enough to delivery babies safely hopefully, since they're a smallish breed rabbit. One is almost as big as my adult ones, but one is still small, though she was always small.
But at least the plus side is, I live in the south of Ireland and there aren't many rabbits in rescue at all or advertised for sale, etc. and they are all the same breed, lionhead, which are quite popular, so it should be ok to find homes for all the babies . . . and I do know how to care for pregnant rabbits and the babies, we've had an unexpected litter before. It seems like it's becoming a theme, what with my last rabbit I bought, and the pregnant guinea pig I bought back in December!
So now just to wait . . . the suspense will kill me!
I'm doing research into keeping females together during pregnancy and raising the kits, since I've heard some people do that, in a big enough cage. My girls are closely bonded so I would hate to seperate them, I've heard stories of rabbits never being friends again after being seperated.
Anyway, wish Lily and Lila luck if they are pregnant, and me luck so I don't go crazy with caring for 10+ baby rabbits! :shock:
(Oh and btw, I know about neutering rabbits and all, but my girls are only 5 months, and I don't like the idea of spaying pregnant animals personally . . . )
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