AmberLops Rabbitry Journal

[AmberLops]

Tell me about it...
I looked everywhere. No clue where else it could be
Is it just me or does it seem like these things only happen when you're not around?

That leaves Jessie with 5 kits. All brokens...the lilac was the only solid color. 2 broken blacks, 2 broken blue torts and one i can't tell for sure. It might be a broken lilac or a broken lilac tort. They sure are cuties

 

[CntryBoy777]

I don't mean to be upsetting.....but, don't rabbits eat the young that aren't healthy?.....I know many animals are that way, but unsure about rabbits.....hope ya can figure it out, tho...

 

[AmberLops]

I don't mean to be upsetting.....but, don't rabbits eat the young that aren't healthy?.....I know many animals are that way, but unsure about rabbits.....hope ya can figure it out, tho...

That's not upsetting!
I've never had that happen...some people say rabbits will eat their kits if they sense danger but my does are all really calm and they're used to dogs etc...besides the dogs there really isn't anything else around to spook them!
The kit was really healthy. It wasn't even the runt...one of the broken black's is the runt.
I did check for evidence of her eating it though...no blood or anything in the nestbox, cage or the tray
I've had other kits escape by climbing over the mom while she's laying down and that gives them just enough height to go through the bars of the cage above the baby savers and wind up crawling around the ground. I've always found them though...they don't go very far.
As awful as this sounds, I'm hoping that some kind of predator snatched it so it doesn't have to starve to death...

 

[promiseacres]

@AmberLops I have seen does do that years ago but none recently and you always found body parts left....

 

[AmberLops]

@AmberLops I have seen does do that years ago but none recently and you always found body parts left....

That's what I thought...I was looking for pieces of the kit And I would think the doe would have a bloody face/dewlap right?

 

[AmberLops]

Today is grooming day for all the bunnies! Hopefully it can all get done in one day
They're molting and the amount of fur they are all losing is too much...in the cage, in the food and water bowls, on me...it's gotta go! I got my little 4 month old doe Ronnie plucked bald the other day...I know her room-mates are making fun of her Poor Ronnie!

 

[Baymule]

Do you wet your hands and rub them back and forth to pull off the shedding fur?

 

[AmberLops]

Do you wet your hands and rub them back and forth to pull off the shedding fur?

Sorry for the late reply, this week has been crazy and not in a good way
But no, I haven't tried that...does it work well? I just gently pluck the loose fur out and do a whole lot of brushing.

 

[Pastor Dave]

I had to go back and look at your journal since you started it up while I was gone and it is still rather short so I could get caught up quick.

I am familiar with Texas A&M, but if someone was to ask me what an aggie was, I would have guessed a marble.

 

[AmberLops]

Since I've been gone for a few days I guess I should update...
Saturday night I got in a car accident, I was driving on the highway to get back home around 10pm and a drunk driver in a pickup was going way too fast on a side road to get onto the highway and he didn't stop...just smashed into the passenger side of my car, which is totaled. I got home yesterday from the hospital but ended up sleeping the rest of the day. So today will be my day of rabbit stuff...hopefully. I checked on them yesterday when I got home, I only lost 1 kit (the runt) from Jessie's litter. I called a neighbor on Monday and asked him to please feed and water my rabbits for me and he did...i'm proud of him because he thinks rabbits are 'filthy' and he's a bit of a germaphobe
It could have been much worse, so i'm thankful that it wasn't!