Hi. I have an un-spayed female and recently took on another un-spayed female from someone who could no longer look after her. They are in separate hutches with an unneutered male between them in his own hutch. Anyway my rabbit is having a phantom pregnancy for the first time in what has seemed like months (can female rabbits stop having phantoms during winter?) and i have noticed that our most recent addition has started acting differently but have checked her over and there is no evidence of flystrike (we use flyguard on all of our rabbits) or myxi (she had her jab soon after we got her) or anything else. She is a very clean rabbit and has been eating and going to the toilet. The only thing i have noticed is she is sort of behaving like she IS doing a phantom just not pulling fur out or building a nest. She is eating food but not as much as normal unless it is greens where she eats the lot. She has also eaten hay. I just don't know what is going on. Can she tell that the other rabbit is having a phantom and "thinks" she is too? Since we have had her she has not actually had a phantom herself.
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Phantom pregnancy
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