Pregnancy

[JordKil 0]

When it comes to the jill being pregnant can she still be housed with my other jills and should she be removed to her own quarters before birth or would she be ok with the others? Also what can be fed to give her a higher protein/fat diet?

 

(By the way I havent bred my ferts im just bulking up on knowledge about breeding as I plan to at some point)

 

Thanks

Jordan

[Kay 3,709]

When it comes to the jill being pregnant can she still be housed with my other jills and should she be removed to her own quarters before birth or would she be ok with the others? Also what can be fed to give her a higher protein/fat diet?

 

(By the way I havent bred my ferts im just bulking up on knowledge about breeding as I plan to at some point)

 

Thanks

Jordan

 

well i wouldnt leave a jill with others personally i would seperate at around 4 weeks into the pregnancy , as for feeding just good quauity food is all she needs & as much as she will eat

[stubby 175]

all ferts are different, only you will know your own, Ive had jills seperated whilst giving birth, and also within a court system with 5 plus jills altogether, the un pregnant ones act as aunts to the kitts,

just carry on feeding fresh rabbit and fresh drinking water, thats all thats needed

[will.f11 24]

just a bit of advice, i know a few people which breed them alltogether and the kits are born in amongst the other kits, the only problem from this is that sometimes, when there is a gap between the jills giving birth (maybe a week or a few days) some kits are bigger than the others, and sometimes the younger miss out on food.

[stealthy1 3,964]

All pregnant jills kept together seem ok, only problem I've had is when I left the hob in too, goodbye kits.

[stubby 175]

just a bit of advice, i know a few people which breed them alltogether and the kits are born in amongst the other kits, the only problem from this is that sometimes, when there is a gap between the jills giving birth (maybe a week or a few days) some kits are bigger than the others, and sometimes the younger miss out on food.

 

not if you feed enough food, I'd rather be taking out, uneaten rabbit each morning, than seeing it all gone, I've bred 2 mixed litters in the court, this year and last year, both litters were days apart, always feed more than is needed rabbit

[stubby 175]

All pregnant jills kept together seem ok, only problem I've had is when I left the hob in too, goodbye kits.

 

again, this can only be down to knowing your own ferts, this year and un-expected litter arrived in one of the courts, that housed 5 jills and 3 hobs, I thought about removing the hobs, but as they were ok when I discovered the kitts (2 days old) I thought I'd wait and see what happened, one of the hobs, a castrated albino, became a surrogate mother, and help the jills out tremendously, the other 2 hobs took little or no interest, I eventually removed all the hobs, when the kitts got to around 3 weeks old, as the castrated one was getting too motherly, and moved them every 2 minutes

but none were killed/eaten,

maybe the thought that hobs kill the young, stems from years ago, when ferts were kept different and fed milk and bread, in those conditions you could understand any animal eating the young

[stealthy1 3,964]

I dont breed that many, only if I need a few extra, problem with that is, if the hob eats the kits like it did mine its a pain more than a disaster, so I take my hob out to stop him doing that, maybe its just this hob and others are ok, I just dont take the risk with this particular hob.

[JordKil 0]

I wasnt planning on breeding all 4 jills maybe just one or 2. There is one of them that I definitly wouldnt leave with kits (unless they were hers) as she is more so the outcast and doesnt get on greatly with the jills but is fine with the hobs. 3 are sisters and the outcast one isnt related. So she would be removed as would the hob. So the others pregnant or not be fine together?

 

Thanks

Jordan

[The one 8,504]

I leave all mine together till the last week then seperate her to allow her a bit of time to settle down and raise her kitts in peace .But if i do breed on of mine it means i really want the kitts as the jills proved herself ect and i dont want to chance losing them