Bumble_Bee
New Kit
Hi :wave: I'm a newbie
Just found this site today...thank goodness, because I'm getting in a right muddle with my buns.
I haven't kept rabbits since I was a child (I'm now 32 :lol: ) but now I am the proud owner of Harvey and Ruby - Harv is a male french lop, Rubes is a female mini lop. They are both nearly 14 weeks old.
I have two main problems, the first is a messy problem! They are outdoor buns in a large (5ft by 3ft by 3 1/2ft) hutch. In the "bedroom" I have put layers of newspaper and loads of straw. In the "living" area I have newpaper and woodchippings. I seem to be having to completely clean this all out every day :shock: . They are really really messy. Everyone keeps telling me they will only wee in one area, well that seems to be rubbish because they wee in the straw and in one corner of the living area. They also pull all the straw out of the bedroom into the other area, leaving the bedroom empty??
How can I persuade them to wee in one area??
Secondly...has anyone ever had a hemaphrodite (sp) rabbit? They both went to the vets for Mixi vax on Monday. The vet expressed surprised that there was no pitter patter of baby buns yet, (I'm getting Ruby spayed in a fortnight) She checked the sexes were correct and found that Ruby is a girl but Harvey has both male and female organs and no sign of testicles yet! She said that this explains the lack of babies yet and that she wants to see him in a month to check if any testicles have dropped
....BTW my sister said I should change his name to Nadia :evil:
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Just found this site today...thank goodness, because I'm getting in a right muddle with my buns.
I haven't kept rabbits since I was a child (I'm now 32 :lol: ) but now I am the proud owner of Harvey and Ruby - Harv is a male french lop, Rubes is a female mini lop. They are both nearly 14 weeks old.
I have two main problems, the first is a messy problem! They are outdoor buns in a large (5ft by 3ft by 3 1/2ft) hutch. In the "bedroom" I have put layers of newspaper and loads of straw. In the "living" area I have newpaper and woodchippings. I seem to be having to completely clean this all out every day :shock: . They are really really messy. Everyone keeps telling me they will only wee in one area, well that seems to be rubbish because they wee in the straw and in one corner of the living area. They also pull all the straw out of the bedroom into the other area, leaving the bedroom empty??
How can I persuade them to wee in one area??
Secondly...has anyone ever had a hemaphrodite (sp) rabbit? They both went to the vets for Mixi vax on Monday. The vet expressed surprised that there was no pitter patter of baby buns yet, (I'm getting Ruby spayed in a fortnight) She checked the sexes were correct and found that Ruby is a girl but Harvey has both male and female organs and no sign of testicles yet! She said that this explains the lack of babies yet and that she wants to see him in a month to check if any testicles have dropped
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