Her brother?? oh thats not good at all

If you do decide to rehome some please think carefully about the homes they are going to - many people like to stick rabbits in a hutch at the bottom of the garden, or give them to kids that soon get bored.

This is a good site for rehoming:
Rabbit Rehome - Adopt an unwanted bunny from a rescue centre

Will you be spaying snowflake?

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If your mate wants a male rabbit to keep the other one company they will probably fight unless they are both neutered (and even then there is no guarantee). I had two female rabbits that had lived together since birth and started fighting at about age 1. I had them both spayed and one died in the operation and now my remaining female is bonded with a male and they get on really well. Females can get very territorial sometimes with each other. The babies shouldn't be separated from their mother until they are 10 weeks old. Good luck!

I think I will get her spay'd after the little ones are fine and able to do stuff for themselves.Well she has two seperate cages, so there shouldn't be any problems there. Also when she lets them out, she does it one at a time, so no conflict can occur.

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We ended up finding out that Snowflake has gave birth to 5 (not 4 as previously thought) rabbits. However only 2 are surviving. Snowflake did start eating one of the others last night (while my Mom was eating her dinner - she said all she could here was the bones crunching!). However she removed the dead ones yesterday (with some old tong things from the barbeque) and snowflake seems to be doing fine with the current two ("Speedy" and "Nee"). We've also put a towel over the cage, so she's in the dark and she feels happier with that.

I would also suggest that once the little ones are fluff balls and jumping round happily I'd get all 3 down to the vets just for a check over.

My surprise didn't end very happily, the mom lived to wean her babies off her but then died once they were old enough. It was like she litterally held on for them. The babies lived quite happily until they were both a few months old then both of them had problems, the vet said it was just one of those things.

I hope these babies dont have any genetic problems this is awful and i really dont understand how anyone can let it happen.

Good Luck.

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I am glad you think it is funny that her brother is the father of her babies.
When you have seen the devestating deformities that can be caused by inbreeding you wouldn't find it so funny.
If you continue to let your cat poke her nose in the hutch you will be lucky if the mum doesn't kill the rest of her babies.
I guess if it was the brother that got her pregnant that the poor thing is only young too.
I wish your rabbit luck having an owner like you she is going to need it

OK, so an update so far... there is only one rabbit left as she's decided to kill and eat "Nee" ... so there is just one left, but she seems to be loving this one and we still have a towel over the top of the cage - to kinda simulate a "burrow" type of condition. She's been fed her normal food (and no longer charging when we drop fresh hay into the far end of the cage). She is looking a lot better and still enjoying her fruit/treat bar that we've gave her and her flavoured wooden block thing that we got from the pet shop. Hopefully this one doesn't die.

He (or her) ("Speedy") is doing well ... he is still wriggling around like a mobile phone on vibrate ... and has a right podgey belly but a small-ish head. Speedy's eyes are still not open yet... though they're due to open in about a week as it's now been 5 days. His ears are still tiny and it looks more like a shaven puppy-dog ... he he. I'll try and get another picture later on, as when we reveal snowflake - to change her food or add more hay - she seems to go over to where Speedy is covered with her ripped-out fur and uses her nose to show him. Then when we cover her back up she covers him back up.

However everything is going fully fine with the last one.

Bet that was a shock.

You should not be taking pictures of the baby.Just leave mum quiet with it and only just feed her.
She will only kill babies if she is stressed out and at 5 days old you are not out of the danger zone.
So how old is mum??

Could the mother have eaten most of the babies because they were inbred?

I can't believe anyone would be so irresponsible as to keep a male and female RABBIT (and we all know what they say about rabbits, don't we?) together, who were obviously not spayed or neutred.

Please do not let your friend have this baby if it survives, and for heaven's sake, keep your cat away!

I hope this poor little baby doesn't have any deformities, i'm sure you wouldn't be laughing if you were inbred.

When you take them to the vet, please mention that the mother's brother is also the father, as he may be able to do some tests to determine wether it has any genetic conditions.

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