MelsBunnies
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Hi there I was wondering if anyone could help. I've been hobby breeding rabbits for a year now and never had any problems. However my latest Mum is really starting to worry me.
She had her babies nearly 48 hours ago now. I didn't realise at first that she had had them as she had completely burried her nest in shavings, however once I had a quick last night all the babies were there huddled together nice and warm and jumping about like they do looking for Mums milk. I checked on them again this afternoon as it was a bit dark last night and I wanted to make sure there were no dead babies etc, which is what I do with every litter, again they seemed fine although I haven't noticed whether their bellies were full (on hindsight I should have checked).
However I've gone out this evening to feed the rabbits and Mum seems to be going crazy. She's jumping round the hutch, digging at the wire mesh and other places, but worst of all she's completely dug her nest out. Some of the babies were still together but some were scattered although they had managed to wriggle under bits of nest that were everywhere.
I put them all back together and fed her and left her to it, but 2 minutes later she had dug them up again and they were scattered everywhere. Once again I put them back but she just did it again. Their bellies looked empty and they weren't very lively like before.
All of them felt warm still so I just cut up a cardboard box and put all the nesting material in that and put them in that, in the hope that mum wont dig them out of it. There is 7 of them.
Is there anything else I can do? Has she rejected them? I'm really worried about them and don't know what to do for the best.
Thanks in advance.
She had her babies nearly 48 hours ago now. I didn't realise at first that she had had them as she had completely burried her nest in shavings, however once I had a quick last night all the babies were there huddled together nice and warm and jumping about like they do looking for Mums milk. I checked on them again this afternoon as it was a bit dark last night and I wanted to make sure there were no dead babies etc, which is what I do with every litter, again they seemed fine although I haven't noticed whether their bellies were full (on hindsight I should have checked).
However I've gone out this evening to feed the rabbits and Mum seems to be going crazy. She's jumping round the hutch, digging at the wire mesh and other places, but worst of all she's completely dug her nest out. Some of the babies were still together but some were scattered although they had managed to wriggle under bits of nest that were everywhere.
I put them all back together and fed her and left her to it, but 2 minutes later she had dug them up again and they were scattered everywhere. Once again I put them back but she just did it again. Their bellies looked empty and they weren't very lively like before.
All of them felt warm still so I just cut up a cardboard box and put all the nesting material in that and put them in that, in the hope that mum wont dig them out of it. There is 7 of them.
Is there anything else I can do? Has she rejected them? I'm really worried about them and don't know what to do for the best.
Thanks in advance.