SA Farm's Kindling thread!

[luvmypets]

Fwuffy bunny... Cute!

 

[SA Farm]

Well, still nothing from Lani, so I bred her to Bugs today.
Updated pictures of Zap's kits. They're over 6 weeks old now.

And Jade's kits. They are about a week old.

 

[luvmypets]

I want cuddles.

 

[SA Farm]

Well, have a couple litters coming due the end of the month, but that's it for now.
Updated pics of Midnight's kits. They are 4 weeks old, and it's looking like 3 boys and 1 girl, though one of the Black Otter kits has a bit of a swollen behind, so I'm not 100% sure on him yet.
The little Tortoiseshell is the doe and she's already sold, to be picked up when she's ready.
Here are 3 of them:

 

[Farmin' Girl]

All your bunnies are sooooo cute! and I am so glad you were able to help the one sweet little girl with her eye. I always hate to see an animal in pain.

I have a question for you. My rabbit gave birth to 11 kits, 4 of which died. The other 7 are a little over 2 weeks old now. How long would you wait before rebreeding my momma? I don't want it to cause any problems with my momma, because my brother had a momma he bred 2 weeks after birth, and she died from a mixture of over-heating and being pregnant with 12 babies. (She died before giving birth, and my brother cut her open for a science experiment............brothers. ).

 

[SA Farm]

A lot of breeders rebreed at 2-4 weeks. I usually wait until 6 weeks or longer since I think it's healthier for my does to have a break in between litters. I also stagger, so I don't have 100 kits at a time!
A lot of how you manage has to do with your bottom line, demand, and the health and well-being of your rabbits. Consider things like what the temperatures will be like during the last two weeks of pregnancy and first few weeks of the newborns and decide when to breed from there.
Typically my last breeding of the spring would be May or June and I give them until September off. It doesn't seem like a long time, but having the hottest months of the year off, when keeping themselves from overheating, let alone carrying the weight of kits or trying to manage overheating kits, is, I think, important.
Then I typically breed until December, then give them until Feb/March off depending. This year they had from November to March off, since our winter was unusually harsh.
Anyway, that's how I do it

 

[Farmin' Girl]

Thanks a lot! That has really helped me straighten my plans out for the future.

 

[SA Farm]

So Jayla kindled her first litter from Tank, so both of my first time producers have now proved themselves. Jayla is also from my own stock, so I'm pleased with her having a first litter of 8!

Jade's remaining kits are doing fantastic - all 9. We had a bunch of kids over without my knowledge and they left the door open. Two escaped and I only found the one. So there were 5F/5M, now 4F/5M. Why is it always the females that vanish? Well, still have 9 happily growing kits, so can't really complain!

Lani is due this week and she's already been pulling fur, so I'm fairly certain I'll have kits out of her. Her mother also pulled fur quite early, so no surprise there. A few days ago I got Tali bred and she'll be the last of the outdoor rabbits for the summer. You can see Jade looks pretty exhausted/hot in the pics above! I'll be doing probably two more litters of indoor rabbits over the summer though.

 

[luvmypets]

Cute!

 

[SA Farm]

Lani had 7 kits this morning
And here's a pic of Jayla's litter. Looks like she has a couple grey, a broken grey, a couple steel and/or black, and a broken black or steel. Hard to tell between steel and black before the fur is in Good mama that she is, she had them all moved apart to keep cool. Hot and humid the day of the pic.