can they really do this?

boundarybunnyco · #1 05/21/12, 10:00 PM

i bought four 8-9 week old does in april. turns out one wasn't a doe. so I have a 13 week old doe building a nest and pulling fur. can she really be pregnant?

Pony · #2 05/21/12, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by boundarybunnyco

i bought four 8-9 week old does in april. turns out one wasn't a doe. so I have a 13 week old doe building a nest and pulling fur. can she really be pregnant?

Are you sure they're only 8-9 weeks instead of 8-9 months?

boundarybunnyco · #3 05/21/12, 11:30 PM

they were 8-9 weeks old in april. now they are about 13 weeks old. positive. they were tiny when I got them. no way they were 8-9 months old.

Wildfire_Jewel · #4 05/22/12, 06:29 AM

It's possible - but more than likely a false pregnancy. Give her a nest box just to be on the safe side.

PD-Riverman · #5 05/22/12, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by boundarybunnyco

i bought four 8-9 week old does in april. turns out one wasn't a doe. so I have a 13 week old doe building a nest and pulling fur. can she really be pregnant?

I had two of mine that did that at about that same age, more putting her fur around the outside edges of the cage(no rabbit bed/box in the cage) but I knew they were not pregnant. They are about 20 weeks old now and have not done it again. I figured it was like a little girl playing Mommy---stuffing a pillow under her shirt----LOL.

KSALguy · #6 05/22/12, 08:53 AM

its POSSIBLE but not PROBABLE, murphy or the bunny fairy has a lot to do with it, but then some commercial lines are bred for early production, so yea it can happen,

SquashNut · #7 05/22/12, 11:53 AM

I've had them do it, turned out to be false pregnancy.

akane · #8 05/22/12, 01:02 PM

I had an 8 week old sibling breed and got one kit out of the doe at 3months old. She was of course clueless and it died quickly with no care which I decided was for the best.

snowbunny_num33 · #9 05/24/12, 10:36 PM

I highly doubt the male is sexually mature at that age... unless of course you have a small breed... it may then be possible... but large breeds... it kind of takes awhile... rare again for the doe but more likely than the male... so you'd have to have two very early maturing rabbits to have that...