Rabbit Breeding

Reliable Rabbit Breeding – What Every Beginner Needs to Know

Rabbit breeding is something not to be taken lightly. Unfortunately there are thousands of rabbits to be found in animal shelters worldwide, mainly as a result of irresponsible “back yard breeders”. These people mean well, but fail to consider the overall outcome, a number of rabbits looking for a excellent home.

If you have but stanch to start breeding rabbits, and have a reasonable plot for their life further than babyhood, there are basic equipment and environmental concerns that must be taken care of previous to a breeding program is started.

Housing and Space Concerns

Adequate cage space is essential. You will need cages for the parents, one each, Read more…

Why Should I Spay or Neuter my Pet Bunny? Why not Breed?

It may be an attractive thought. Breeding your cute pet bunny, to produce a few more cute bunnies that you could place into a show or sell to the local pet store.

But, rabbit breeding is a serious affair, and thousands of rabbits are left homeless every year as a result of a “back yard breeding” conduct experiment gone incorrect.

Get Rich with Rabbits?

Most serious rabbit breeders will tell you, if you reflect you will become wealthy breeding bunnies, reflect again. If you are willing to breed rabbits for the like of it, and have the considerable resources and available space to do so successfully, it can be incredibly rewarding.

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9 Tips for Surpass Breeding

1. Both the buck and doe should be apt breeding age, in most cases they should be at least six months ancient. Many does will be unable to breed if not initially bred by nine months, due to pelvic bone fusion, so the ideal age is somewhere in between.
2. Ideally, both rabbits should be of same breed, unless you’re breeding purely as pets.
3. The buck should be somewhat smaller than the doe.
4. They should both be as healthful as possible and free from any major genetic defects that could be passed on to potential offspring. Read more…

How to Tell When Your Doe is Ready to Breed

OK folks, here’s some basic rabbit breeding information that should help you know the mysteries of rabbit like.

One of the reasons that rabbits have a (deserved) reputation for constant breeding is that the doe (female) rabbit does not have a right estrous sequence.

In layman’s terms that means she does not have a set time in “heat” like dogs or cats. Instead the female rabbit is what is known as an “induced ovulator” in that no egg is released until after mating with a buck. So in all likelihood a female rabbit can be bred at any given time. Read more…

Small rabbit breeds may reach sexual maturity by the age of 4 months, large breeds may take six months or so, but it is advisable to delay rabbit breeding until around the ages of six or ten months respectively. Females should usually be retired from breeding at the age of in this area 2 or 3 years.