How to Breed Rabbits In a Cage System | Successful Rabbit Breeding
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How to Breed Rabbits In a Cage System? Successful Rabbit Breeding.
Here is a quick demonstration on what to look for in a successful rabbit breeding. This video shows you what you must look for to make sure your rabbits have actually bred. You must observe the entire mating and make sure the buck falls over indicating successful rabbit breeding. That's definitely not ideal for the health of the doe. Keep them separated except for breeding time. Bucks and does will both show dominance by mounting other rabbits of the same gender. People who keep them together all the time but the doe can get pregnant twice at a time and have kits 2 weeks apart.
This Californian buck is housed in a 44" x 30" x 36" high all wire cage. The standard is 30" x 24" x 18" high. We make sure our rabbits always have a mat to sit on so they are not on wire all the time, though most rabbits prefer the wire over the mat.
The mat is removed for breeding. Unlike most commercial rabbitries we allow all of our kits free-range time. Our rabbits enjoy nearly double the space of household pet rabbits. Most of our rabbits are used for human consumption. Other suitable uses are: pets, herp feed, and production of fertilizer. It's best to keep the bucks and the does in separate cages all the time
except for the few minutes to breed them.
The rabbits in this video are Californian doe and buck; they are a standard meat-production rabbit.