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breeding myths?
Topic Started: Nov 19 2012, 06:43 PM (1,239 Views)
SundewRabbitry
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I thought the whole "two different litters of different ages at one time" thing was a complete myth...until it happened to me last month LOL! Lady Luck had a DOA litter of 4 on the 10th of December. They were full term, and DOA litters are very normal for her, especially if no one's around at the moment of birth. Then she had three more kits on the 24th, also full-term, and one was live and is now 5 weeks old. So she must have been pregnant in both horns. I'd put her in with a buck 2 weeks after the first breeding because I didn't detect any kits when I palpated her, but apparently both breedings took!
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Wow, that's something!!
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Disney
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The whole "multiple breeding" thing does make sense to me, but i was told more details about this and i think it was discussed here too but not sure.
If i remember right.. the semen takes 8 hours to reach the eggs. And the doe takes 10 hours to conceive.

So when the semen arrive, they atleast have to wait 2 hours until they can get in the eggs.
So if you do a second breeding 2 hours after the first breeding, the second batch of semen will reach the eggs just in time when they get released.

Anyone heard about this and does this sound logical?

I have tested this out with 2 doe's, a younger doe and older doe with problems.

The older doe had a DOA litter before, the kits were taken out by a c-section and a year later she had a 1 kit litter.
Her first live kit and just 1. So i assumed she had difficulties with conceiving the eggs.

So what i did was.. breed both the does with multiple hits in 2 hours of time. She were each hit 3/5x times.
The younger doe producued 7 kits, which was a suprise for me.
And the older doe produced 4 kits, 1 doa.
So for me it was a succes but it could have been just luck too.
Edited by Disney, Feb 5 2013, 02:06 PM.
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