The way our cages are set up they are made for winter breeding. We have a nest box area built into the cage, 3/4ths of the cage are soild wood (in the summer we take off a wall to allow air movement) and our current does do really good with making a warm nest with lots of fur. With that said I...
Shes not really in to being touched so I think palpitating her will cause more harm than good. Shes not pushing and I got a pretty good view of her hind end through the wire and no discharge. She seems pretty exhausted so we will see.
So two of our three bred Silver fox does gave birth today!
Our doe Ruby had 2 DOAs One was very large and kinda bloated the other one looked like she pulled it out (streched out with a hole in its belly area). She currently has 4 healthy but unfed kits in the beautiful nest she built. She has...
This ours. Well the second type.The other one is 3 cages connected and a total pain to move...
The door one the far left is the hide hole door, middle door opens up to the main part of the cage along with the door on the right.
I know this is a little old but I cant help myself....
We have a "hide" hole/nesting area. It has a removable wood floor for sanitary reasons. We only put pine shavings and hay (mixed hay/grass) for nesting. We have been doing this for over a year and never had any troubles with the adult...
I would still give her a nest as though she is going to kindle normally. Our two does did weird thing the first time around, Sapphire pulled so much fur around day 20 (she lined her nest cage and food bowl :P) and then trampled and destroyed her nest only to rebuild it a week later. Our other...
Sounds like they are warm and happy! Depending on the personality of your doe putting different rabbit fur should not upset her. I've heard of people putting dog fur, dryer lint and other things to replace moms fur.
My life has been so hectic lately that I havent been able to keep up with the forums as much as I've wanted to but I thought I would share our youtube channel and our FB page on here :]].
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBjdZBY01gFG-HQ_cYP6u7g
(this is my fav video)...
Havent been on here much due to my job but I thought I would post our new litter.
We have 2 Bucks & 4 Does. Birthdate: 12/06/17 All with pedigree.
https://www.facebook.com/Newfreewillrabbitry/
So my husband just went out and one of our male rabbit was sitting by the door making a wheezing sound (I think its called Stridor). We have never noticed this sound before and it was pretty loud. My husband took him inside and after he calmed down for a few minutes the sound lessened but still...
Ruby had her kits on the 27th! 8 wiggly babies. I think they are all be black. Its been snowy and windy here so I only took them out the first day and pretty much just checked for dead ones. Today is suppose to be nice so I will get them in a box and take them inside for a closer look.
We will...
Well lifes been pretty crazy and work has me doing 50+ hours the past month :[[.
But as far as rabbits go we sold all four of Ruby's kits and we are waiting for Sapphire and Ruby to kindle the 23rd is day 30. Onyx was very very VERY enthusiastic about meeting Sapphire. He fell off of her 5 times...