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[Bunnylady]

I wouldn't consider this past experience Strike 1.

Nor would I. The amount of stress on a rabbit that is being re-homed is enormous; I have seen two pregnant does abort the litters they were carrying simply from the stress of it. I think that this doe getting anything right, one week into a new home situation, is to her credit.

I don't remember anyone asking - is the other rabbit male, and if so, is he still in the same cage with her? If so, she is probably pregnant again, with a much larger litter, and a due date 31 days after this lost litter was born.

 

[Ridgetop]

I use the 3 strikes rule too, and like Pastor Dave, wouldn't count this against her. You were not prepared (not your fault) so you couldn't give her a straw filled nest box. Also you had just brought her home and she had no time to acclimate before kindling. Since she was a new mother instead of an experienced brood doe, she didn't know what to do. By the way, I learned the hard way to identify the potty area from the dropping pile under the cage and put the nest box in a different location!

 

[ducks4you]

Sorry for your loss!
When I was young I had a pair of rabbits and a couple of accidental litters ---New Zealand Whites-- and I wanted to mention that if you try again, you might find that they all survive and then you have to find more cages OR new homes for them. In one of my does' litters one of the kits died. Animals instinctively know when a baby won't make it and then don't try to save them, but basically kick them out. This is very normal.
I suspect that your desert temperatures, really hot and then cold may have contributed.
Next time, keep your doe inside before she births her kits so that you can monitor this.