Weather you have raises your own successful litter or not, you know baby rabbits need to be weaned. Just like a calf has to be weaned or a human infant has to be weaned, a baby rabbit must be weaned. Baby rabbits can be weaned from 4 to 8 weeks old, the factors of when you should wean your rabbits is: how old they are, how much they weight, and how many rabbits there are in the cage. We usually wean our rabbits when they are 5 1/2 to 6 weeks depending on these factors. When you wean your rabbits it is a good idea to sex them ( discussed earlier), and tattoo them ( discussed as well). Then you should fill out the rabbits pedigree if he has one that way, they can be ready to sell without any rushes.
when you wean the babies you want to wean one at a time, from biggest sized bunny to the smallest one, that way the runt of the litter has a chance of getting bigger. Then you want to place the bunnies in a grow out pen together, contact with siblings is more important than contact with the mother. Bunnies that do not have contact with rabbits like their siblings tend to have trouble breeding and growing. If their are no siblings in the litter you may want to place him in a grow out pen with other rabbits his size and age or with a guini pig.
when you wean the babies you want to wean one at a time, from biggest sized bunny to the smallest one, that way the runt of the litter has a chance of getting bigger. Then you want to place the bunnies in a grow out pen together, contact with siblings is more important than contact with the mother. Bunnies that do not have contact with rabbits like their siblings tend to have trouble breeding and growing. If their are no siblings in the litter you may want to place him in a grow out pen with other rabbits his size and age or with a guini pig.
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