brutalbaby
Warren Scout
OK well I don't know if any one remembers 'Bunny' my little 'boy' lion head?
OK nearly two years ago my vet told me he was a boy, I paired him up with a girl bunny who died with myxi (destiny) luckily bunny survived and i took on another girl bunny and paired the two up thinking I had a girl and boy bunny who was forever in love.
Any way a year later passed and the two are still getting on just fine, I decided to take on a boy rabbit who was in need of a home as the owners didn't want him any more. As he isn't neutered I have kept him in a separate run and hutch to the other two. I haven't let them get together at all. Every thing was fine until the other night I went into the cellar where the hutches are kept and some how Bunny had got into the new rabbits hutch. I don't know how long they had been in there, but they was laying next to each other and bunny kept rolling over in-front of the new male rabbit in a flirty way, they was cleaning each other and not fighting at all. I decided to leave them for a while seeing as I thought I had two boys together and that they had bonded, the next minute the new male is mounting Bunny, I just thought this was dominant behaviour until Bunny lays down and heightens the back end..... I tried getting the male rabbit off Bunny but he had hold off bunnies back furr. When I finaly managed to separate I had noticed white liquid around Bunny's parts. Confused it clicked that Bunny must be a female and not a natured male that the vet had told me.
It has now been 2 weeks since this happened and I have noticed a change in behaviour in Bunny. These I have looked up and they seem to match up with the behaviour of a pregnant doe. Now other a year ago Bunny had made a nest... A few people had told me that bucks can do this to, so I thought nothing of it.... Now I understand that she must of had a phantom pregnancy.
I have marked on the calender the due date if she is pregnant but there is just a few things I want to double check on:-
when she has her kits do I have to separate her from the paired doe she is with at the moment?
Is it true that you can check the nest as soon as she has had her kits to see how many are in there and if they are all healthy?
If I do have to separate her from her doe friend when can they be put back together?
I have done alot of research but these questions I cant seem to find the answers to.
Please help :?::?
OK nearly two years ago my vet told me he was a boy, I paired him up with a girl bunny who died with myxi (destiny) luckily bunny survived and i took on another girl bunny and paired the two up thinking I had a girl and boy bunny who was forever in love.
Any way a year later passed and the two are still getting on just fine, I decided to take on a boy rabbit who was in need of a home as the owners didn't want him any more. As he isn't neutered I have kept him in a separate run and hutch to the other two. I haven't let them get together at all. Every thing was fine until the other night I went into the cellar where the hutches are kept and some how Bunny had got into the new rabbits hutch. I don't know how long they had been in there, but they was laying next to each other and bunny kept rolling over in-front of the new male rabbit in a flirty way, they was cleaning each other and not fighting at all. I decided to leave them for a while seeing as I thought I had two boys together and that they had bonded, the next minute the new male is mounting Bunny, I just thought this was dominant behaviour until Bunny lays down and heightens the back end..... I tried getting the male rabbit off Bunny but he had hold off bunnies back furr. When I finaly managed to separate I had noticed white liquid around Bunny's parts. Confused it clicked that Bunny must be a female and not a natured male that the vet had told me.
It has now been 2 weeks since this happened and I have noticed a change in behaviour in Bunny. These I have looked up and they seem to match up with the behaviour of a pregnant doe. Now other a year ago Bunny had made a nest... A few people had told me that bucks can do this to, so I thought nothing of it.... Now I understand that she must of had a phantom pregnancy.
I have marked on the calender the due date if she is pregnant but there is just a few things I want to double check on:-
when she has her kits do I have to separate her from the paired doe she is with at the moment?
Is it true that you can check the nest as soon as she has had her kits to see how many are in there and if they are all healthy?
If I do have to separate her from her doe friend when can they be put back together?
I have done alot of research but these questions I cant seem to find the answers to.
Please help :?::?