Need Help Quickly!

[Atropos4]

Onyx our flemish giant that kindled two weeks ago is at the moment super ticked off and we cannot find the reason why. She is repeatedly thumping and pacing her cage. She's tossed two kits, Alpha says they appear to be ok and he tucked them back in the nest and covered all of them.

Is there anything we can do to calm her down? Suggestions? She only seems to calm down and stop thumping and pacing if he goes out there and pets her and talks to her.

We have had a problem with rats recently but haven't seen any all week after the bait bars all dissapeared.

I just don't want her to trample and kill all her kits.

[General Brown]

Pull the nest box out and take it into the house for the night. The young rabbits will be fine. Return it in the morning and see how things go.

[MaggieJ]

Bring the nest box indoors and just take them out to her to nurse twice a day. That will protect the kits from both rats and momma's nervousness. There are probably still rats around... it takes more than a few days to get rid of them.

Soft music sometimes calms rabbits. If you have an extra radio put it in the rabbitry on an "oldies" station, low volume. It may also help keep the rats away, although they will soon figure it out.

[Atropos4]

Thank-you! I ran out to tell Alpha. He thinks he figured it out. When she's been nervous before he's given her plantain and she calmed down, so he tried it again. Then he watched. Two of the kits, the largest ones, scrambled out of the nest box and were trying to eat her fresh greens!! She is food aggressive and went after them. Alpha gave them their own plantain and Onyx her seperate pile and everything seemed to calm down.
If she starts up again we'll definately bring in the nest box.
Question though, Alpha is worried that if we bring it in she may reject them tomorrow morning? Is that a possibility?

[Reauxman]

Not really. She'd want relief from the pressure of the milk. Mother rabbits are not like goats and such, they do not stay with their babies at all times. Even when the kits are out of the box she doesn't go to them, they go to her. She really can care less about them, they are simply drinking her milk. When I pull boxes(needs to be really cold, don't do it any more as I use drops) I don't even bother to check that they are going to the same dam that birthed them.