FarmerBoy24
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About how long will it be for me to tell if my rabbit is pregnant.
X2hoodat said:Watch her behavior in a week or ten days. If you see a change it means the hormones are starting to work. She may get cranky or ignore you where before she was friendly.
Often times, the doe will not even touch the straw until right before she is due. I have a doe who-if she is in the mood- will build a nest 1 hour before she is due. Sometimes she dosnt even build a nest at all! But she is a great mother!CYGChickies said:Another trick you can try is giving her a bit of straw--not hay. If she carries it around or starts nest-building then you'll know. I have no experience palpating a pregnant doe so I'm not sure if I felt a kidney or a baby but a breeder told me last night to give her straw so that's my plan for today. Apparently you can also put her with a buck and if she fights him she's pregnant--but for our buck's sake we're going to try the hay approach.
CYG
I heard it's hard to palpate a doe and that if you don't do it right could you hurt the kits and the doe? I figured if this should happen in by rabbitry, the cycle is 31 days. There is no medicine, like with goats, to stop a pregnancy so you are just on the clock watching. Putting in a nestbox doesn't hurt so if doe is pregnant than you are ready. I would be really nervous regarding the age so the 31 days would be agony.CYGChickies said:Yes I had no plans of putting her with a buck. I palpated yesterday--13 days--but I'll try again today doing what you said. The doe is young and wasn't bred on purpose--we bought her brother and her and were told she was not quite 8 weeks so we left them together and on day two his testicles were dropped. We didn't see them before that but it's possible they were there and obviously they were much older than 8 weeks. I will check her again and hope to get a sign of pregnancy before we put in a nestbox just so I can be more mentally prepared.
CYG