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Did you move them or did she not pull fur out to make a nest? First of all, they will not survive unless they are warm. She may still make a nest if you give her plenty of hay or straw. This needs to be done immediately. Kits can die of hypothermia very quickly. You might even need to take them...

@Leslie This thread is years old and does can go as long as 35 days before kindling naturally. I have not had to induce with any of mine. However, putting aside the whole castor oil and oxytocin thing which I would never do to my rabbits and @Bunnylady already addessed as I was writing, I am...

:) I love furry nests filled with healthy kits.

@RathdrumGal I think these were just pictures at different stages of growth. Rabbit kits are born blind and without fur. They begin growing fur after birth and open their eyes in about ten to twelve days. However, it is common for some kits to be smaller than others and some there are some...

Maybe her milk just came in later than most do...?

:caf How be it this morning? Nourished?

I agree that none of them will be REWs. I made a mistake in thinking two I had were otters recently and they actually were a chestnut and a chinchilla, but at least yours came from an otter. Still, be patient and give it some time. They need to get their fur in. I have decided that I will wait...

I like pedigrees with known genotypes and I do mine that way, but as @promiseacres suggested, REW being a recessive gene, you would not see one until you bred two that had it even if you could not see it. By crossing with a NZW, I recently found chinchilla in my Blue Silver Fox doe...had no idea...

Sounds like Daphne is being supplemented well enough. This is one of those things that comes down to just being a judgement call. You could try fostering before pulling out the larger ones to see if that works for the little one. You could feed it yourself with warmed kitten replacement milk or...

I do not think that it is too late to foster, although I have not done it personally so their are others here that might give you a better answer on that. I am more concerned about two other things. Firstly, that the kit may be able to nurse with either doe because it is weaker and smaller so it...

They are probably being disturbed by the doe going into the nesting box, but some are just wanderers. The doe sounds like a pretty typical protective mama rabbit to me. Growling I will allow, attacking me...not. Some mellow out more with each kindle, some stay the same, and a few get more...

Typically, the kits do not leave the nesting box until their eyes open, unless they are uncomfortable, being anything between starving, too hot, or something in the box with them that is attacking them. Being dragged out of the box while trying to nurse and the mother is getting out is far more...

I agree with @mustang89. Normal for some kindles, but far more common when it is warm, as in they are getting too warm being all together.

Sorry for the lost of the second kindle. I have this philosophy about does: even if I seriously doubt they are pregnant after a breeding (or unintentional exposure to a buck), I asume they are and set everything up accordingly. It has proven to be far more often right than wrong.

We have had a few accidental pregnancies and it is rather sobering to process a pregnant doe. Well, I personally have not had experience with back-to-back pregnancies, but I also have not seen a doe pull more fur for kits who eyes were open...so I would treat this situation as if she is...

I have read that advice many times but "do not give any greens" is a bit of an overstatement, I think. I start giving mine some greens as soon as they are interested, usually around 5 weeks...I just do not give them much about three to five leaves in total to each choosing from: cilantro...

There is no need for "sorry" when asking a question...or several. We all started out with rabbits at sometime. I personally do not mind that my does act a little protective of their kindles and it is not that unusual, especially for a first time mother who might be a bit nervous about the...

So glad it went well! I am really surprised that there were only two nests...and I am wondering how many there would have been if they had another month in the colony. Some of the does must have been pregnant. In fact, the mother of the kindle you kept might be pregnant also.

We use a small wire mesh you can get at about any hardware store on the outside along the bottom of the cage, about 4 inches high. I still have seen a kit climb over it, but very rarely. This is why I like the drop nesting box so much more.

I saw that at first too but it looks like they have regular floor wiring under the cage in the set up. I would still think this could cause a sore hock problem, but if regular floor wiring was cut and placed on top of the cage flooring, it could work.