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Breeding/Reproduction:
Neutering or spaying: This is very important to consider for your pet rabbit as there are definite health benefits for the rabbit as well as behavioral benefits for you. Health wise it has been found that female rabbits over two years of age are often prone to a malignant cancer, called uterine adenocarcinoma, that can be prevented by spaying. Though less frequent, male rabbits can also get a disease of the reproductive organs. Behavior wise, spaying and neutering can help avert aggression in both sexes, though especially in males. Some male rabbits can become aggressive as they move into adolescents between 8 -18 months of age, and they can also start marking their territory by spraying urine around the house or yard. These behaviors can often be prevented by neutering the male rabbit. Neutering or spaying can be done when your rabbit is over 4 months of age.
Breeding: Rabbits, depending on the breed, are sexually mature between 5 and 9 months old. The bigger the breed, the longer it takes for them to mature. They can produce 4 to 6 litters a year until they are 6 years old, but they shouldn't be bred that often or that long. The gestation period for females is almost exactly one month and they have from 1 to 12 offspring, with the average being 6. The babies are born blind and naked and nurse for 6-8 weeks, at which time they are ready to be weaned.
The mother and father rabbits should be kept in separate cages. Only put them together for a brief period (generally the male's cage works better) so that they can mate and then separate them again. Put a nesting box in for the mother rabbit, with hay, straw or wood shavings. The mother will also pull out clumps of her own fur to add to the nest. Leave the mother and her babies alone as much as possible until they get a little older (around 3 to 5 weeks). The babies will open their eyes around 10 days old, and gradually start moving around more after that.
If the babies loose their mother, they can be hand nursed. There are milk substitutes that are available to use when hand nursing the babies which you can give with an eyedropper or a rubber topped feeding bottle. They should be fed every 3 hours, and at least once through the night until they are weaned. At about 3 weeks offer them rabbit pellets and start teaching them to drink water from a dish. Eventually they can learn to use a water bottle and can be introduced to grass hay and green foods when weaned.
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