Snowflake-George
Alpha Buck
We have just found out today that our female rabbit George is in fact a HIM.
3 people including myself and one of the vets at our practice all sexed her as a girl. I have had experience in sexing bunnies before and so know what to look for and have always been right until now. But today she was running around me, jumping onto my knee, getting really excited and demanding attention. So anyway for some reason I lifted her and checked her bottom and there was her "winky" hanging out and I was like ohh. :shock:
So I gave her a really thorough check and yes she was definitely a him, found the testicles. They haven't descended as far as my other male rabbit Hershel though so no wonder they have been missed for so long. Hershel's testicles had descended by the time he was 9-10 weeks and George is 6 month old. Because we thought he was a girl I hadn't checked again since the vet supposedly sexed him at 8 weeks old.
Luckily we don't need to rename him as my sister called him George when she first got him, because the character on Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes who would captures Bugs Bunny and keeps him as a pet and says they will squish him, love him and call him George. I generally called him Georgie as it was more girly. :lol:
I think it just highlights how notorious hard it is to sex bunnies at an early age. As I've been reading this afternoon that some male bunnies when still young appear to be female.
Anyway the plan was to neuter and bond them as soon as the weather warms up, so I guess as long as the bonding goes okay that is still the plan.
3 people including myself and one of the vets at our practice all sexed her as a girl. I have had experience in sexing bunnies before and so know what to look for and have always been right until now. But today she was running around me, jumping onto my knee, getting really excited and demanding attention. So anyway for some reason I lifted her and checked her bottom and there was her "winky" hanging out and I was like ohh. :shock:
So I gave her a really thorough check and yes she was definitely a him, found the testicles. They haven't descended as far as my other male rabbit Hershel though so no wonder they have been missed for so long. Hershel's testicles had descended by the time he was 9-10 weeks and George is 6 month old. Because we thought he was a girl I hadn't checked again since the vet supposedly sexed him at 8 weeks old.
Luckily we don't need to rename him as my sister called him George when she first got him, because the character on Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes who would captures Bugs Bunny and keeps him as a pet and says they will squish him, love him and call him George. I generally called him Georgie as it was more girly. :lol:
I think it just highlights how notorious hard it is to sex bunnies at an early age. As I've been reading this afternoon that some male bunnies when still young appear to be female.
Anyway the plan was to neuter and bond them as soon as the weather warms up, so I guess as long as the bonding goes okay that is still the plan.