Thursday 22 May 2014

First litter of rabbits weaned

Ginger's babies were weaned on Tuesday. Apparently this is a risky time for baby rabbits as they are prone to stomach infections and more susceptible to disease generally as their mothers milk is helping their immune system. We left them with her until 8 weeks which is quite long, it is possible she had weaned them already. So far they are all fine and still growing. In only a few weeks we can try the first one! They will still be pretty small (around 1kg live and maybe only 500g ready to cook). They grow quite slowly as we feed them mainly grass rather than pellets - but we are still planning on sampling one. We have been waiting so long! Awwwww look how cute they are.

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