How do you know when a rabbit is pregnant?

Answer 1

Withstanding a vet visit, she will become more and more bitchy and mean. It takes between 28-32 days to give birth. Normal behavior will drastically change and she will not like (if allow) to be held. As soon as you suspect pregnancy, remove any males from the cage and keep them separate. Get some nesting material from a pet, or grain store for her to use. She will generally give birth during the quite time of he day (early morning most likely). But it is pretty much impossible to tell right off if she is indeed pregnant without palpating her. After birth beware, for she will become aggressive and defensive of her litter. Belive me, I've had many. But all the same, here:This is just about the hardest part of the gestation issue. Something that will give you a good hint about if she's going to have babies soon is if she starts carrying hay around in her mouth trying to make a nest out of it. You should, however, try to figure out if she's pregnant before that. People will tell you many ways to see if a rabbit's pregnant or not, but only one way really works. Palpation. Palpation is an art of the skilled. My mother can't even do it. (I can, though.) I will explain palpation in a minute, but first, I want to warn you about some really corny pregnancy tests.
Palpation is the best way of telling if a doe is pregnant or not. This is the method of feeling her abdomen to see if there are any babies inside. For beginners, this method is most easily done at two weeks after breeding or more. I will explain how it's done in the following list, with assistants of pictures.

* Take out the rabbit and place it on a surface with high traction, such as a carpet.
* Hold the rabbit back on it's hindquarters so it doesn't back up while you are trying to palpate it.
* Reach with your other hand (it should be your dominant hand, if you are right-handed, use your right hand and vise versa) underneath the rabbit's abdomen.
* Start squeezing and pinching the rabbit's abdomen between your fingers and your thumb between the last rib of the rabbit's rib cage and the pelvic bone. At around two weeks of gestation, the baby bunnies should feel like little marbles. At three to three and a half weeks, they should feel longer and you may even be able to distinguish their heads from their bodies.
* NOTE: The reason why many people have a hard time palpating is because they are afraid of squeezing to hard, because they think it will hurt the babies or the mother. Well, it doesn't, because of a bubble-like sac around each baby called the amniotic sac, which is a small pouch of fluid in which a baby rabbit develop. You can squeeze pretty hard, and the rabbits will come to no harm.
Good Luck!

Answer 2

Waiting forty days is the safest way to tell.
On day twenty-eight, you should give her a nest box that she'll hopefully have her litter in. The box should be sturdy, with walls three to four inches high. Lots of boxes have one open side and a roof that covers half the box, for the mother to perch on. It should be just two inches bigger around the sides than your rabbit is when she's crouching down, and if it has a roof, it should have a little more leeway.
Supply the box with something absorbent, like paper or pine bedding, and something fibrous, like straw or hay. Make sure it's not overflowing, otherwise the young rabbits could crawl right out over the bedding, hobble out through the wire, and freeze to death in a dark corner. Everything you put in should be chew-safe, because rabbits chew everything.
If this is the first time your rabbit's been pregnant, it's a good precaution to stuff her entire cage with a two-inch thick layer of straw after you put in the nest box. You might need to change it a few times, as the forty days drags to an end. This way, even if your rabbit can't figure out what the box is for, she'll still have her litter somewhere warm.
If she has the babies in an odd corner in the cage, gather them all up, warm them to body temperature if they're cold, and put them in the box with the fur the mother pulled from her throat and belly. Check the nest every day to count the babies and keep it clean, but otherwise leave them and their mother alone, at least until they start to clamber out of the nest.
Young rabbits can be separated from their mother at as young as four weeks, but unless something drastic comes up, wait until six weeks, so their digestion has time to adjust to solid food.
Good luck!

Answer 3

There is something you can do called palpatation (or palpating). This is when you feel the doe's underside for kits. However, if you do this incorrectly or too rough/strongly you can damage the kits, so this is not recommended without practice.
The surest way to find out if your rabbit is pregnant is to wait 40 days. If your rabbit does not deliver within this time, she is NOT pregnant or has reabsorbed her litter.
One sign that your rabbit might be pregnant is if she carries nesting materials to a certain place and/or if she starts pulling her underbelly fur and nesting with that. This is not a certain sign however; my rabbit started nesting as soon as she was next to (but separated from) a male.

Answer 4

am i able to ask what you're doing with those rabbits for them to get pregnant and that i wish your no longer breeding them, sorry if i sound nasty yet who buys rabbits at present and alot of them finally end up chucked out and bypass to animal shelters. I surely have 4 rabbits yet had 9 all mutually each and each of a similar time interior of final year, i made a mistake and not in any respect returned. i admire my rabbits father 2 sons and a daughter and easily dad is fastened so iv have been given to seperate all of them because of the fact male and adult males combat which i choose them fastened and that i cant positioned the daughter along with her brothers because of the fact i dont choose anymore bunnys its no longer honest and sister and brother is so incorrect. i think of if a million is pregnant and the different is doing her behaviour then she is likewise pregnant. Rabbits are confusing artwork and human beings who get them think of its purely a rabbit purely who will consume poo sleep hassle-free to safeguard, thats why human beings dont choose them.

Answer 5

big stomac?