How do i tell if my 10 week old bunny is a Male or Female?

Question

My bunny is 10 weeks old, i asked the shop keeper if it was a male or female but she said its hard to tell when their young
so do u have any suggestons?
and also when will the average female bunny have babies?
I have a male and a female... i think LOL

Answer 1

Behavior doesn’t always help in identifying the sex of a rabbit. Mounting is dominance behavior and rabbits will still do this after altering to assert themselves (that includes both sexes). Both males and females will dig and act aggressive as they enter puberty. Males will take 6 weeks after neutering to be completely without testosterone in their system. If you have an unspayed female, please be sure to separate. Females have an 85% of having uterine cancer by age 5 years pf age if they are not spayed. For the sake of the health of your female rabbit, please have them spayed and give them 10 days or two weeks to recover before putting them back in the same cage with another rabbit. (You can house them next to another rabbit. (Put a few inches between the cages.)

GETTING A GRIP ON THE RABBIT

Turn your rabbit over on it’s back. (This is way easier said than done!) Hold the rabbit with its head lower than its hind legs. Within a few seconds, the rabbit should start to relax. Separate his hind legs with one hand while firmly holding him with the other. If you aren’t experienced in putting a bunny into a trance on their back, then get someone to help you and hold the bunny on his back on a flat surface. Be very gentle. Work fast. This position is uncomfortable for a rabbit. Speak softly to your rabbit and be careful! The rabbit is scared of being in such a vulnerable position. If you don't think you can do this, there are alternatives. But if you can, here's how to tell if you have a boy or girl rabbit.

SEXING YOUNG RABBITS:

If you put some slight pressure above the sexual organs you will see either a circle or slit. In an adult rabbit, it will be clear to tell what sex rabbit you have. The male has a circle shape.

Female rabbits should be spayed to prevent development of uterine cancer. There is a high chance of female rabbits contracting the cancer if they are not bred from. If you want to have more than one rabbit, then you will need to spay or neuter your rabbit. Two unneutered male rabbits put together will tend to fight, and two unspayed female rabbits can often fight just as viciously. An unneutered male and a spayed female can live together, but the male rabbit may become obsessive about marking territory, and may annoy the female rabbit by continually mounting her. Obviously an unneutered male and unspayed female will mate. Many people find that after their rabbit reaches 4 months of age, their rabbit has starting urinating everywhere, mounting objects and has become aggressive towards them, actually lunging and biting. Neutering rabbits tends to reduce, if not eradicate, this behaviour. Neutering to alter behaviour may seem cruel, however it is far preferable than a rabbit being euthanised due to behavioural issues. Female rabbits do not come into heat in the same way dogs do. They are able to become pregnant at any time. Rabbits can have a litter every 31 DAYS. The female can get pregnant the day after giving birth if not separated from an male. Male rabbits are still fertile up to a month after being neutered and should remain separated from unaltered female rabbits during this time.

Often people will decide to get two litter mates, supposedly of the same sex, so that their new pet will have company. However, it is extremely difficult to accurately determine the gender of young rabbits until the males testicles descend at 14 weeks. Many times the unsuspecting owners will actually have two rabbits of the opposite sex. Within months, they will have experienced an overwhelming population explosion, which results in the offspring being 'set free' or dumped because the owners do not know what else to do. Please note that house rabbits are domestic prey animals who have no natural instincts of how to care for themselves in the wild. They are easy targets for cats, dogs and wildlife and are unable to distinguish between safe and toxic plants. Most will die shortly after being released. This sad scenario is easily avoided by having your pets spayed and neutered.

You should only trust an experienced rabbit vet to assess the gender of young rabbits. But, there are times when even they have difficulty until the rabbit is older. The best way to ensure that unwanted litters don't occur is to NEVER introduce two unaltered rabbits, no matter what the age. Babies rabbits need to stay with their mother until they are weened at 8 weeks old. Cute little babies may look small but some breeds are able to conceive by 12 weeks old. All siblings should be separated from one another after they have been weened and until they have been accurately sexed and spayed or neutered. Leaving 'baby' siblings together, or trying to separate all the girls from the boys is a mistake that many people make. It only takes one wrongly sexed rabbit to create a number of new litters. DO NOT take this chance.

Have your rabbit spayed or neutered. Most vets will wait to perform surgery until the females are 6 months of age, and until the males are 4-5 months of age. Choose a vet that has experience with rabbits and high success rates with spaying and neutering. If your rabbit is over 2 years of age a preliminary exam should be done.

Finding homes for unwanted litters is not an easy task, and often leads to more rabbits being surrendered to shelters. For every litter that is produced, a number of shelter rabbits are euthanized because there are simply more rabbits in need of homes than there are homes willing to adopt them. Be a responsible rabbit owner and don't allow your rabbit to have an unwanted litter.

Most good and respectable pet stores have already had thier rabbits and other creatures such as : ferrets, spayed and neutured. So if you are wishing for alitter I would call the store you got him/her from and ask.

Answer 2

You should of researched that before you purchased the rabbits. Of course you got them at a pet store, they are probably sick as well. A knowledgable person can tell way before 10 weeks of age if the bunny is a buck(male) or doe(female)
Your rabbit has to be at least 6 months old before she can be bred, but if you cant even tell the sex of it then you obviously dont even need to be breeding them.
Here is a link on how to tell
http://www.geocities.com/dutchrabbitinfo/sexing.html

Answer 3

it is hard to tell when they are young i have 2 baby angoras and between all the fur it is really hard to tell we had to look at our adult rabbits to figure it out lol

Answer 4

Lift its itty bitty tail & take a look !