What to do with runts.

[Ms. Research]

Totally agree with what Beekissed and 2seth2 stated.

Give them time. And runts do make great pets!

 

[Bossroo]

Since you are raising meat rabbits... cull the runts asap as they just take away nutrition from the real meat makers , wich will deminish their rate of gain. Keeping runts is just a lose, lose proposition.

 

[Ms. Research]

Since you are raising meat rabbits... cull the runts asap as they just take away nutrition from the real meat makers , wich will deminish their rate of gain. Keeping runts is just a lose, lose proposition.

Couldn't understand the lose, lose proposition, but did some "looking" and found that your meat rabbit profits would diminish somewhat raising rabbits that won't make it to "fryer" status. The profit margin is influenced by "feed to meat" conversion ratio which is the amount of feed necessary to produce a fryer of market weight.

Good ratio: 4:1 meaning 4 lbs of feed to produce 1 lb of meat.

So runts from commercial meat rabbits would be a lose, lose proposition bringing down your profits.

K

 

[Snowfie]

Well the problem kind of solved itself. Both runts died this week. But there was definatley somethign wrong with them. Even after I got momma out of the cage and put the kits underneath her to nurse, they still weren't having it. And one of the runt's eye was glued shut.

Probably for the best, I was just wondering if there's any way to help otherwise non-peanut runts in a litter.

 

[Ms. Research]

Sorry to hear, but I have to agree, it was for the best. You did all you could do. There's not much, even a professional, can do when you have a rabbit in distress. Or a runt that will not eat. Nature always takes it's course.

K