A Nesting Rabbit, Isaan Thailand.

The other day I blogged that I thought my newest rabbit was pregnant as she started building a nest. She was pulling her hair and Cola, my male rabbit’s out and gathering paper and piling it together behind the door.

I separated the two of them as I didn’t want her getting pregnant again, as she can become pregnant straight away after having her babies. This could mean more babies in 30 days and this would be two litters of kits fighting for milk, just too much for her.

The problem is, as the days have passed Cola has tried harder and harder to get into Panda’s area. So we had to place extra height to the enclosure to stop him trying to jump over the top. Here you can see down the bottom left of the picture Cola and Panda next to each other, separated by the cage wall.

I made her a nesting box; it is simply a cardboard box with a hole cut out for a door.

I was a little surprised at the amount of hair and paper she had managed to squeeze into the box. Definitely more than comfortable for a litter of kits.

And she did finally give birth, sometime after I left for work she gave birth to 6 healthy babies. I checked them all quickly, and there isn’t really a smaller baby or a runt. They all were of decent size.

So the next few weeks they will be feed once a day by mum. They develop quickly, so won’t be hairless and pink for long. She has really calmed down now, the last week she has been very agitated and tried to bite at times, she bit me once, more a small nip not drawing any blood when I was filling her food bowl.

Today she is relaxed and enjoyed a pet for a little while. In eight weeks from now the little rabbits will be just about ready to go to homes, if they can be found. I am sure that homes will be found as these will be hand reared and toilet trained, so very docile and hopefully adorable as well.

Brunty