SOME USEFUL INFORMATION ON BREEDING AND THE DEVELPOMENT OF KITS

                                                                      MATING
It is better to have a smaller buck to put to a larger doe. Rabbits do not usually have many problems when it comes to mating.Although a breeder will probably tell you diffrent. It is practical to place a doe in the bucks cage and not the other way round.As the doe will attack the buck. If a doe is interested,mating takes place quickly.With the buck falling off to the side of the doe and making a shrill noise.

 PREGNANCY
 If the doe is in kindle (pregnant),she will start to gather materal for a nest.Around 10 days later. She may become a bit aggressive,but this will get better after the litter is born. The day she is due to kindle she may go off her food and begin to pull out her fur.She does this to line her nest. It takes about 28 to 33 days for the babies (kits) to be born.

Dutch marked netherland dwarf babies born on 30th December 05
I will up date as they grow.
They are now one week old, 8th January 06
taken 16th january 06 nearly 3 weeks old.
taken 23th January 06