First Generation Replacement Doe # 2: 2nd Litter

The doe in the picture below is Replacement Doe #2 with her second set of litter. We re-bred this doe on April 20, 2012 to the broken-back Chinchilla buck. She kindled to 7 healthy kits on May 21, 2012. In breeding a rabbit, take out the doe from her cage and bring her to the buck's cage for mating. Never do it the other way around because female rabbits are extremely territorial by nature. They could harm the buck if you bring the buck over to their cage. When we first brought the doe to the buck's cage, she was fidgety and kept on running around in circles. After a few minutes of merry go round, the doe finally settled down and the buck was able to do his deed. We had to watch that the buck serviced her twice before we removed her from the buck's cage and put her back in her own cage together with her first set of litter. She could still nurse her first litter for one week before we remove and separate her from her kits. After you bring back the doe to her cage, watch her for about 30 minutes. If the doe makes a pee 30 minutes after the breeding process, this means that the semen could be washed away and this means that you have to repeat the same process all over again. Luckily, she did not make a pee and to calm her down, we gave her some sweet potato leaves to nibble on. The pictures below are the result of this second bred-back with her 8 healthy kits, her second set of litter.

First generation replacement doe # 2 with her 2nd set of litters

Piggy back

On top of the world

You were saying.......

I wanna drink too!

Breeding Stock Cinnamon/Chinchilla: 2nd litter

This is the first time for the black Chinchilla buck to be used and these are his off springs. We used the broken-back Chinchilla buck to mate with the two original does. This time, we thought we'd use the black Chinchilla buck since he is almost 9 months old by October 02, 2011. We first took the Cinnamon doe and put her inside the cage of the black buck. As soon as she was in the cage, the buck mounted her but the doe was not having any of that.  She took her own sweet time before she let the buck to ride her. Then she made a pee! This means that the semen of the buck must have been washed away. We had to wait for about 30 minutes until the buck served her twice again before we removed the doe and put her back in her own cage.

 

We did the same thing with the white Chinchilla but she was also not in the mood. She just kept on running around in circles going 'round and 'round the buck and jumping every time she sees the buck coming towards her. She was very aggressive this morning but apparently, she was not in the mood this evening. It looked like she was ready to fight with the buck and she would put him in a corner and the buck would just lie down. Finally, the buck got a chance and was able to service her twice before we took her out. When she was finally in her own cage with her litters, she was still running around in circles. It must be that she didn't want any of her litters messing with her at that time and she wasn't ready to feed them yet. Anyway,the pictures here are the result of that re-breeding process.