Due to my daughter allowing an unplanned rendevouz between my buck rabbit "Roger" and my doe (she was cleaning them out for me) I have discovered 3/4 baby lops in the cage this evening !! poor Roger is actually booked in at the vets to say goodbye to his appendages on Tuesday anyway...but it seems a little late!

They must only be 3 or 4 days old, and I only discovered them today (hidden in her box). I will be keeping them all so no worries there, but I am concerned she may hurt them now I have found them (didn't touch, put box right back quick). Is there anything I should be doing....?

Has the buck been together with the doe since the birth?  If so you might just be having another litter in 28 days time, it's a shock I can tell you!

Mum will do a good job at looking after them I am sure but just make sure the cage is spotlessly clean. 

They are kept separately... so I am assuming all is ok... Moll was cleaning them out t'other day and I got "Muuuuuuuuuuuum Roger is playing with Misty!!" but they have been separate before and since!

How do I clean the cage without disturbing them? She's a house rabbit, can I let her out for a run?

Chloe, she will look after them, don't mess with the nest for a few days as they sometimes get offended if they think you're messing with the babies.
Keeping them all LOL. Just get them neutered all you'll have a bunny farm.  :)

I've already got 4 :D 2 lops and 2 belgian hares...they are all house rabbits aswell! Am just moving them outside into their new chicken coop house and 20foot run!!

""Am just moving them outside into their new chicken coop house and 20foot run!!""
You'll need to be moving house yourself soon, to make room for all these bunnies. :-D  :-D

it's great for the children to watch them growing & developing.  they are so cute at 4 - 6 weeks old. :)

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Well. she's just had a nice run out and has gone back in - we haven't disturbed the nest or touched it, but I saw rustling in amongst the paper and fur! So I have had a tidy round outside the cage, just the same as normal, and left her alone again. Aw bless...I CAN'T WAIT FOUR WEEKS!!! :D

You have got hares ? I love hares! They are such graceful creatures :)

So do hares do it like wabbits then ? :D

Dunno - got females :D :D They are gorgeous though! Chester (Chest-hair) and Scarlett (o'hare-er) :D

Belgian Hares are actually rabbits and NOT hares at all!

Depending on how happy the doe is with you handling her and them, I would just scoop the whole nest out complete, I used to put ours into an old christmas biscuit tin, then put it all back again when you have cleaned.  Don't do it if she doesn't seem happy though, just clean around it - thoroughly. If she wants to go out then let her, she will soon run back if she is worried about her babies.

I know they are rabbits and not hares ;) but they still *look* and *run* like hares, so I can be forgiven for continuing to call them hares.

I used to breed mini lops and cashmeres, depending how friendly your bunny is they may let you handle their kits straight away.  I used to distract mum with some dandelions, rub my hands in her poo then handle the babies she didnt mind at all, I suppose it depends on the bunny though.  Lop eared babies are the best, before their ears go right down they turn into helicopter ears :D :D

Beware of castrating dad though, we castrated a male we didnt want to use and he was never the same.  In the end he died an early death due to fly strike, the vet seemed to think it was an underlying problem which attracted the flies to him.  What was so sad was that we cleaned him up every day but those horrid flies still got to him :(

Oh no :( Roger lives in the house, so I was kind of hoping to castrate him and put him outside in the summer house with the others (they all get on well)...but I am wondering whether I should now.... especially if these babies are nice.

Misty is currently spending most of her time talking to Roger who is free running outside her cage. She has a GP in with her aswell - she has a massive cage (A Great Dane Crate!) and they get on well (and I know they shouldn't be together but the GP is very timid and was getting bullied by my other male and it was an emergency measure a couple of months ago!). I haven't take him out as I don't want to disturb anything. The nest is still "moving" and its made with newspaper and half of her fur so I am hoping everything is ok. She's been out for a run (her choice) and I've had a sneaky peak then, but I don't want to touch...

Just been in to check - there are definitely 4 and they are growing and wriggling well. She's been out for a run and doesn't seem overly concerned with me looking at her babies :)

Aww bless! Im very impressed Molly helps care for the rabbits, most kids would have to be threatened once the novelty wears off. Does your little boy have much to do with them? My friend has a rabbit next door who is taken out walking on a harness and shes now obsessively checking the boundary fences and pinning up posters on her doors saying " Do not let dogs out off lead - RABBIT ALERT". Her 3 Weims cannot believe their eyes... :)

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaw baby rabbits, I just love baby rabbits :)

When I was younger we had a rabbit she was broughten into the house with her babies because the buck killed the other batch :(. My sister and I didn't know we shouldn't touch them and we played with misty's babies all the time from when they were born till we had to sell them. Misty never cared at all, she use to let us stick our fingers in her mouth, I also had her walking on a leash like a dog :)

Think it just depends on the rabbit....my daughter is now thinking in a couple of years (when her knew hamster passes on) she wants a dwarf bunny or a mini rex (they are sooooooo soft)....Thats fine with me I prefer them to guinea pigs (no offence to any one but we just never had any luck with a piggy :(  )

Dollface, that's exactly what me and my sister did :)  We were always having a peek at them.  Looking back now I'm amazed that they didn't get eaten! 
We even kept Willow who we still have now to deter Lucy from wanting more babies, but it didn't work.  All 3 litters were conceived through the bars of her cage! :O

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My father used to breed rabbits (before I was born) and told me that if you disturb the nest, particularly if you smell strongly of something abnormal like soap, mummy bunny will eat the kits.

Christopher doesn't know it yet but he will be getting 2 GP's in a couples of weeks.:)

thats what i was worried about... we haven't touched them at all, just check on them. one keps wriggling away so I just let Misty out and when she's not looking i scoop the baby up with the bedding and put him back :)

She's very good really... she will walk Phoebe (not Willis - he's too big), feed and groom the horses and catch her pony and groom her, clean out all the rabbits and GP's and feed/water them.. she's very excited about the babies - padlocks on the cages I feel! - and was very upset at the thought of selling them until I explained we will keep them :rolleyes:

They are gorgeous lickle baby bunnies though - have had another couple of looks and they are just so sweet!!

Pictures of bunnies? Must scan a picture of Manic Morse into the machine to mail you - if you can stand it :D