need some help on mating two rabbits?
i have a male dutch he is about 1 1/2 years. and i have a female mineture lionhead she is about 6 months.they have been in seperate cages and have never seen eachother. will they fight when i put them together.should i interduce them by having the female in the males cage in a smaller cage. I dont want anybody to tell me DONT DO IT CUASE BLA BLA BLA. I have homes for the babys there not going to a pet store or pound so please none of that.I just need some information. Thanks to anyone answering.
well if you are going to breed Please do make sure you have homes for the babies.
you bring the doe to the buck’s cage because she could be territorial about her space, and may fight.
ok you can put the doe in the buck’s cage. get them used to one another. he will mount her, grunt, start humping. if mating is successful he will grunt and then fall off the doe. just to be sure you can try again several times. sometimes if she is pregnant and he is trying to mate, she might ignore his advances. pregnancy is usually 30 days give or take.
but please take note that rabbits are a very fruitful animal. breeding adds to the overpopulation of pets. with rabbits you have to really make sure you are finding good homes, because some kits\rabbits are used as meat and snake food.
i’m not telling you not to breed, but take this into consideration.
August 3rd, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Well you put them in a area where its not their territory . Like just put them in your backyard and fence them together and watch closely incase a fight breaks out. I think the female might not want to mate and start kicking him in the head but not sure.
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August 3rd, 2010 at 7:32 pm
ha ha there rabbits they will bang anything they get the Chance to lol just put them together
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August 3rd, 2010 at 7:56 pm
just put them together,making dure the cage is big enough for 2.even if you try&do it slowly they’ll fight.she will dart around&make screaming noises but he wont hurt her,honestly,don’worry unless he draws blood.they will need2remain together for at least 10 days,then keep them separated,until if&when you want her bred again.Good luck!
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August 3rd, 2010 at 8:21 pm
I would put the Rabbits in desperate cages and put the cages by each other to see if they Communicate and to see if they like each other first , then as they get to know each other then u could move them together in one cage.
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hope this helps you
August 3rd, 2010 at 8:48 pm
well if you are going to breed Please do make sure you have homes for the babies.
you bring the doe to the buck’s cage because she could be territorial about her space, and may fight.
ok you can put the doe in the buck’s cage. get them used to one another. he will mount her, grunt, start humping. if mating is successful he will grunt and then fall off the doe. just to be sure you can try again several times. sometimes if she is pregnant and he is trying to mate, she might ignore his advances. pregnancy is usually 30 days give or take.
but please take note that rabbits are a very fruitful animal. breeding adds to the overpopulation of pets. with rabbits you have to really make sure you are finding good homes, because some kits\rabbits are used as meat and snake food.
i’m not telling you not to breed, but take this into consideration.
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vet tech student, rabbit books, bred rabbits, ect
August 3rd, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Trust me, you don’t really have all the homes homes for the kits that you think you do! If 30% of the people who say they will take them actually do, you will be doing better than average! On top of that, you will be making mutts which have a much more restricted market than pure-bred animals even as pets.
If you don’t know that the doe must be brought to the bucks cage, you have done far too little research to even remotely think about breeding. Please get genetically sound stock of the same breed and do lots of reading and talking to experienced breeders before you take the responsibility of producing kits!
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40+ years raising and showing rabbits