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Rabbit weights- please help!?

M

Maaike_Butter

Mama Doe
Hey everyone,

I'm currently writing a case report for my course on a 6 week old rabbit with gut stasis (now fully recovered). I'm trying to find the usual weight of a 6 week old rabbit, particularly mini lops. Can anyone link me to a (decent) website which lists the weights at different ages??????? Please?
 
Thanks Helen! Sadly it's not got juvenile weights! The only reference I have is a book that's stating the optimum weight for MEAT rabbits, which will be grossly larger than normal pet rabbits...
 
that sounds a hard one Maaike :? :? could you not split the differences between the months and a fully grown lop :? usually they are fully grown by about what 6 months :?: so the average weight of an adult bun split between 5ish months should give you a monthly weight, I think :lol: :lol:
 
yea, I was thinking that too, Denny...only thing is, I know that my rabbits grew in stages...I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that they grow more in the first 10 weeks than the 10 weeks after that...or something. Either way, I'm supposed to reference it... :?

What I've done for now is quoted the meat rabbit text and added a note. *shrugs*
 
Try contacting the BRC or a minilop breeder. All the scientific papers are usually done on bun much bigger.

Tam
 
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