My rabbit has just had babies, one of them has died , it was out of the nest and there was blood on the hay, i no there is still more babies cuz the nest is moving. Why has this baby died?
2006-08-03 09:56:28 · 11 answers · asked by leedeedi 3 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
There are a couple of reasons I can think of is, it wasn't fertilised properly, it wasn't getting enough food while it was in the whom or the mum was picked up and the baby got killed because you picked the mum up to hard or the mum mistook it for something else and killed it or It might have been too underweight or it might not of fed properly, that's all I got sorry.
2006-08-03 10:01:25 · answer #1 · answered by Gareth 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
In animals that have litters having one or two babies that die is just natural. Sometimes it was a birth defect sometimes it was not given air soon enough. There are hundreds of reasons why a baby can die but it shouldn't be anything to worry about. if you can you might want to move the body of the dead baby and burry it.
2006-08-03 10:01:14 · answer #2 · answered by Lady 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My first theory is which you're breeding a Lionhead and a Dutch mutually. that's mixed breeding, which isn't in basic terms irresponsible, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that it additionally reasons genetic weaknesses. mixed breed rabbits are no longer as genetically sturdy as purebreds and are not as proof against common ailment and affliction. So please end breeding this pair. in case you're able to decide for to reproduce rabbits, do greater learn approximately procuring a competent breeding pair. additionally, did you word something incorrect with the toddlers in the previous they died? A unexpected onset of diarreah for youthful rabbits is common, and in case you do no longer understand the thank you to handle it, they are able to die interior of hours or days. whilst did you wean them? you're able to as properly be weaning them too early. Kits should not be separated from their mom till a minimum of 8 weeks. There are purely maximum of issues which could ensue to youthful toddlers. And in case you're no longer experienced, or a minimum of properly researched on the subject be counted, you will no longer capture it on time to handle it. Breeding is puzzling, even for experienced breeders. So till you're keen to place greater artwork into discovering approximately it in the previous you breed, i does no longer propose doing it lower back.
2016-10-01 10:49:07 · answer #3 · answered by albury 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes if you touch the baby the mother doesn't like it and she will kill her baby.
Or it might just have died of natural causes.
2006-08-03 11:06:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure the mother rabbit didn't kill it? My friend had that happen. Her rabbit and 6 babies and the rabbit wound up killing all of them.
2006-08-03 10:00:49 · answer #5 · answered by ksn_23 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry. Maybe the newborn rabbit wasn't viable.
2006-08-03 10:01:20 · answer #6 · answered by Bingo's Mommy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes, the mothers eat their babies. There was probably something wrong with it or she was stressed or scared.
2006-08-03 10:01:12 · answer #7 · answered by phantom2921 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Watch her closely to see she doesn't harm the others. But if it happens, don't take it personally. Nature is harsh.
2006-08-03 10:10:51 · answer #8 · answered by Singlemomof10 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
COULD OF DIED EXENDENLY
2006-08-03 10:00:49 · answer #9 · answered by casper 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry maybe it had parasites.
2006-08-03 10:15:24 · answer #10 · answered by mochabrownie2010 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋