I have a dwarf lop bunny its a girl and we got her in march and she was 7 weeks I want to see if i can breed her but I am too late to breed her?What age should i breed my rabbit?
Please wait until she is 6 months.
Now Im going to be very unpopular,
Why do you want to breed her? Do you have prospective homes lined up for her? Is she healthy? Have you talked to your vet about breeding her?
Have you considered all the rabbits in shelters without homes? The countless rabbits abandoned to be eaten or die?
http://www.rabbitadoption.org/breed.html
Why not get her fixed and have her as a nice indoor pet rabbit?
http://www.sandiegorabbits.org/
What age should i breed my rabbit?
A small breed doe is normally ready to mate when she is 5 months old, and a buck is ready at 6 months. The medium size doe is ready to breed when she is 6 months old and the buck at 7 months. The heavy breed doe is ready at 8 months and the buck is ready at 9 months.
some definitions..
* A female rabbit is called a doe. A male rabbit is called a buck.
* When referring to the parents of a rabbit, the mother is called the dam, and the father is called the sire.
* When you mate two rabbits together, this is called breeding.
* When you check to see if the doe is pregnant or when you breed her again before she is due to give birth, this is called testing.
* When you put a box in the hutch that is lined with hay, this is called nesting.
* When the doe gives birth, this is called kindling.
* The period of time between breeding and kindling is called the gestation period.
* She gives birth to a bunch of bunnies called kits. This bunch of bunnies is called a litter.
* When you take the young rabbits away from the mother, this is called weaning.
THE minimum standard for a doe is that she produce at least the following number of rabbits per year all the way to weaning:
* Dwarfs: 8
* Small Breeds: 14
* Medium Breeds: 16
* Meat Type: 20
* Giants: 16
Some information you'd like to know.
Dwarf Breeds
The smallest breeds, the Dwarfs, vary in size from 1-3/4 to 3-1/2 lbs. They include:
* Britannia Petite (White, black, black otter, or chestnut agouti) 1-1/2 - 2-1/2 lbs
* Dwarf Hotot (White with black around its eyes) 2 - 3 lbs
* Jersey Wooley (Many colors - Angora wool) 2 - 3-1/2 lbs
* Netherland Dwarf (Many colors) 1-3/4 - 2-1/2 lbs
* Polish (Black, blue, chocolate, blue eyed white, ruby eyed white, and broken) 2 - 3-1/2 lbs
These rabbits, as a group, are less than 3-1/2 pounds mature. These are the rabbits you will want to raise if you want small pets that don't consume much feed (about 1/3 to 1/2 cup per day) and take up the least amount of cage space (about 2-1/2 sq ft). Many times, these are the only rabbits that pet stores will buy. You can expect to fetch about $7.00 from pet stores without having to supply a pedigree. The pet store will turn around and sell them for about $30.00. When you sell to other breeders and provide a pedigree, you can expect from $15.00 to $40.00 or even $100.00 or more for a grand champion. Price depends on the rabbit's show background, quality, and heritage, including the production characteristics of its parents.
The Netherland Dwarf is the breed in greatest demand. The Netherland Dwarf has the most ARBA-recognized colors and patterns of all the breeds. If you're into variety, you can't go wrong with Netherland Dwarfs.
The problems you will run into with any of the dwarf breeds mentioned are the following:
* The average litter size is 2 - 4 bunnies, as opposed to the larger breeds which have 6 - 12 bunnies.
* The genes responsible for making a dwarf rabbit, in certain combinations is lethal. This combination occurs in 25% of the rabbits. The one having this gene usually dies within 4 days after birth.
* Dwarf rabbits are more susceptible to coccidiosis, an intestinal parasite that many times proves lethal to the young rabbits between three and ten weeks of age.
* I have found that a significant number of dwarfs have attitude problems. Many of them resort to scratching or biting you when you put your hand into their cage. It could be that they are more afraid than the larger breeds, just as chihuahua dogs have a nervous fight-back tendency.
The above factors don't tend to discourage people from raising dwarfs. They consider these problems as challenges. Dwarf rabbits are in great demand because of their popularity with young people. This, coupled with the lower litter rate, explain why they command a higher price than other rabbits.
HAVE FUN!!
I am totally with Tina and highly discourage selfish, greedy, nasty people like you. If you are not these, you would not want to breed an animal that is third most overpopulated animal in the country.
If you really, really want to ';experience the miracle of birth';, then why don't you go to a shelter and foster a pregnant rabbit
Why do you need to add more animals to this world??? Why do you need to cause more animals to die??? WHY???
You people are so idiotic!!!
Breeding is terrible and only experienced people should breed, not just anybody with a rabbit!!!!
Think about how many deaths you would cause because you bred, then decide.
I am not sure about the age to start the reproduction process, but you can put a female rabbit does not have heat cycles. Any time you put her in the male cage, he will breed her and you will get babies. If you introduce her into his cage, more than once, during the same time period, she will have more babies. I bought my rabbits (male and female) from Texas A%26amp;M University in Kingsville Texas. they gave me good advice and answered lots of my questions. Here is their website: http://users.tamuk.edu/kfsdl00/rabb.html
Hope it helps you some.
Nope, when she turns around 6 months you can breed her. But be prepared, most mothers end up eating the first litter, its their way of ';getting rid of the garbage';.
The second litter should prove to be better. Just be careful how much you let them breed of course.
Breed her after 6 months. Under 6 months is still considered a Junour rabbit what means rabbits are still growing.
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