kasey08
Exploring the pasture
I plan on breeding rabbits just to sell to family/friends. Can females and males live together? Can males with males? Females with females?
I think they will all be OK until about 3 months. Then you really seriously need to think of placing the males away from the females. 4 months is when they get active and could possibly multiply. I would then consider putting them in individual cages. I thought I could have rabbits together, but at 5 months, even after neutering, one was aggressive with another. And rabbits will kill another.kasey08 said:They are all babies right now. 7weeks. All 5 are togther right now. Some are borther and sister so I know I cant breed them together. Someone just needed to get rid of them.
Actually, you can breed brothers and sisters no problem if for meat consumption. You just don't want to keep their offspring for new generation breeders, then keep theirs, etc. One generation of inbreeding is fine for personal meat consumption. Just don't sell their young to other breeders as most don't want inbred rabbits because it's a high risk.kasey08 said:Some are borther and sister so I know I cant breed them together.
Congratulations on the Lionheads you are acquiring. I'm looking to get that breed as well. I have three right now, varieties, that my DH and I started out with. Never had rabbits so we needed to get our feet wet. Love rabbits. Really neat creatures to have.gryeyes said:I've never had more than one rabbit at a time, so I didn't know bunnies could be fighters amongst themselves! The first bunny I had, I was 7 years old (51 years ago) and I've recently acquired a Lionhead buck. The family giving him up is also giving me the doe and some of her kits from him on Thursday.
So I guess I will be learning about this rabbit stuff "for reals" now.
I had a couple of young does together for a while, then separated them. I tried to put them back together and Holy Cow! A rolling, biting, scratching, fur flying ball o' rabbit ensued! And these were very calm and docile rabbits too!gryeyes said:I've never had more than one rabbit at a time, so I didn't know bunnies could be fighters amongst themselves! The first bunny I had, I was 7 years old (51 years ago) and I've recently acquired a Lionhead buck. The family giving him up is also giving me the doe and some of her kits from him on Thursday.
So I guess I will be learning about this rabbit stuff "for reals" now.