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well i want mine female to have babies so i kinda need a male!!!! : )

2006-06-05 23:37:07 · 4 answers · asked by Ashley 1 in Pets Other - Pets

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Do you really want your female to have babies? During breeding, the male and female rabbits can attack each other, causing painful, even lifethreatening injury.

After breeding, the female may absorb or abort her litter, leaving you to dispose of half-developed rabbit fetuses. That is, if she didn't eat them first.

During delivery, a kit can get stuck in the birth canal. This requires emergency vet attention, which can be hard as rabbits will rarely give birth when being watched. This just happened to a friend of mine last week..two healthy babies, one pulled out by the mother's teeth and torn apart, and the last baby half eaten but alive when she found it.

After delivery, the doe's personality can change drastically, she may never be a sweet and loving pet again. She may refuse to nurse the kits. Baby rabbits are very hard to hand-raise, and they may all starve if that's the case. She might develop mastitis, an infection of the breast tissue. The babies will be unable to nurse from her and again, she will need long term vet treatment to recover. She may be stressed and eat or partially eat her young.

If you have a dwarf rabbit, you have to worry about peanuts. Peanuts are babies born with two copies of the dwarf gene. They have large heads and tiny back ends, and incomplete digestive tracts. Over a period of a week, these babies die slow deaths. They are unable to process food, and die 100% of the time.

Also, babies are more prone to illness like mucoid enteropathy. Even caught early some of these illnesses are hard to treat. Babies may die for no apparent reason. Sometimes a litter has a 'fader' who simply wastes away with no medical cause.

Worst case senario, your rabbit and all her babies could die, because you wanted some babies.

Do you still want to breed?

2006-06-06 00:14:28 · answer #1 · answered by RabbitMage 5 · 0 0

You are seriously making a huge mistake wanting baby rabbits. Unless you are ready to skin them and sell them to restaurants as a business, please don't do it to yourself. I speak from experience. I did it and oh my god. They bred so fast I could not keep up selling them as pets and ended up having to sell them to a butcher at a price. That's right. I had to pay him.
Even in the country these rodents will run you down. then again , you can sell them to Australians. They love Rabbits and can not seem to get enough of them.

2006-06-06 06:48:02 · answer #2 · answered by tonyintoronto@rogers.com 4 · 0 0

Please dont brred your rabbit. There are to many rabbits without homes. Breeders just make it harder for them to get adopted. Go to your humane society they probably have some babies being born right now.

2006-06-06 18:19:06 · answer #3 · answered by pooh-baby-gurl 2 · 0 0

i have a soft bunny

2006-06-06 06:45:21 · answer #4 · answered by rekha c 3 · 0 0

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