The rabbit population at my house almost DOUBLED today.

[MustangGal]

Mama, our white NZ doe, had ten kits! We went from 12 to 22!

Now if we can just raise most of them. I thought she had been having a hard time dealing with the heat, plus I know bucks can go sterile in the heat, so I didn't really expect more than a few - heck I don't know where she hid them all! She didn't look that big!

If you have any advice, I am all ears!

[Benn Gleck]

No advice but congratulations on being a Grandma! :)

[610Alpha]

I second the congrats...hope they all make it.

[MustangGal]

No advice but congratulations on being a Grandma! :)

Grandma? Ouch! LOL That had better not happen for more than a dozen years! DS is only seven! :D

Thanks for the well wishes!

[eeyore]

Probably the best thing to do would have been to split them up into another mother, but that has to be done right away and has a chance of very little success (from what i read). I doubt she will be able to feed them all, just watch closely as often as you can, if a few die try to get them out as quick as possible.

[MustangGal]

Probably the best thing to do would have been to split them up into another mother, but that has to be done right away and has a chance of very little success (from what i read). I doubt she will be able to feed them all, just watch closely as often as you can, if a few die try to get them out as quick as possible.

DH and I talked about that. But my only other adult female has three kits kits that are about a month old right now. I am giving her a bit of oatmeal to help up her milk production. Apparently she had ten the last time, but the lady didn't have the nest box in w/ her or anything and she lost four of them. Three were born on the wire and the fourth died later.