When Can I Clean The Nest Box Rabbit

• #ane

Hi all, firstly, I tried searching "nestbox cleaning" and "cleaning the nestbox" but the search engine straight up stonewalled me

and so my question is this, how regularly do you lot clean your nestboxes with a new litter, I don't want to "over-handle" the kits and have something go wrong but at the same time I don't want them wallowing in filth, and exercise you save the pulled fur or volition the doe just booty some more out to supplement any that was lost?

Thanks, Jake

• #2

It is recommended to do it before the kits eyes open in hopes of minimizing "nestbox eye". Rebed the nest, and put the fur coating back in. If the doe is urinating in the nest you will have to clean equally necessary to remove wet bedding. A few bunny berries are considered normal, and the doe will purposely eolith a few in the box for the kits to eat at first to establish gut flora.

Don't worry nearly treatment the kits- the more than the better is the general consensus on RT! Here is an article that volition allay your fears regarding handling newborns:

gentle-handling-promotes-health-fascinating-article-t6142.html?hilit=early%20handling

• #three

Thank You lot! that was an interesting read for certain, I call back I'm gonna cean up store tonight and see how it goes, I have an actress nestbox I tin put the popples in while giving the original one a gut swamping out

I tin can too get an exact headcount, trying to count popples in a pile is like counting snakes in a jar

• #5

I give my does a treat while I bank check the kits to go on them busy and also so they volition associate my messing virtually with their nests as a positive matter... "Yum! A Dobby'due south Please horse cookie! You kits are on your own!"

• #six

This is good to know, it's kindof tough walking by the rabbit cages in the morn, knowing that there's 10-ish?? kits under there and the nearly you lot can do it's part the fur back and brand sure they're all still kickin

• #seven

I ofttimes count them by taking them out and putting them in my shirt side by side to my pare to proceed them warm. It can get a bit ticklish, and sometimes y'all get peed on, but I worry about them getting chilled this fourth dimension of year. In the warm months I just set them in a container with bedding.

• #8

I just had a thread about this a week or 2 ago. I go along my kits in the business firm with me, and just take them out twice to the mother. Not in one case has whatever doe refused to nurse the kits later on. I was really worried about losing fur that I couldn't supervene upon, I haven't been able to keep whatever extra fur until recently with the lost litters.

• #9

Alright, simply finished upwards swampin out the nest box, the fur floats through the air like dandelion duff, 10 plump, good for you kits and of course forgot the camera

• #x

lostcreekrabbits":2x5xgx9d said:

Alright, just finished up swampin out the nest box, the fur floats through the air like dandelion duff, ten plump, salubrious kits and of course forgot the camera

Of class! :lol:

• #11

yeah, I wanted to get pics of all of the colors that there are in the nest box simply just evidently forgot the camera, there'south 3 that are gray/white mottled (not sure if that'southward what'due south referred to as broken) 5 white, and 2 jet black (i of these is the runt)

• #12

Hullo LostCreek ... handle those babies! :lol: I have closed wooden nest boxes and they are easy to accept out of the cage, and I just take them in the house to my work table where I have a scale, a couple of unlike sizes of plastic tubs to hold kits subsequently I take them out of the box, plus a tub to weigh them in. I just take the top of the fur out and put it in the holding tub.

So, the morning after kindling, I take the nest box inside and clean upward any birthing fluids, placenta'south, DOAs, and lift the nest to slide newspaper up under it. If you lot feel the nest, there should be a bowl in the back with a "lip" in the front, and information technology should be packed well enough to concur together when lifted. This should last at least a week, just if you feel moisture hay when you check the nest, simply pull that part out and the doe will probably rearrange the nest when yous put information technology back.

Besides, if you lot "lose" any of the fur, she should pull more than to replace what is lost.

I take one doe that rebuilds her nest every day and there is more and more than fur each time :lol: And, she "plugs" the nest box too ... doesn't want me "in the nest" at all

I took a series of videos with the first litter if you are interested in looking:

Weighing MR babies:
http://youtu.be/FZFBbDis75o

Day3 weight:
http://youtu.be/B6ISwzoHnFI

Day7 weight:
http://youtu.be/aQiMVoMZInE

Playtime1:
http://youtu.be/t4fFrIid5p0

Day9 weight:
http://youtu.exist/tlz-6fmoQ5A

Day10 weight:
http://youtu.be/EqYZD-KZJ5Q

Supplement Day9:
http://youtu.be/HPSk01-6xiw

Day12 weight:
http://youtu.exist/5-V_a5X09uY

Day14 handbasket:
http://youtu.exist/ai81RyQzOFs

Day16 Basket:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HISnVZzsg9M
http://world wide web.youtube.com/picket?v=GSxTeFQCpFw

Day18 Basket:
http://youtu.be/1UvqsSRV5Lo

Day20 Corral:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?five=iBr1jINUzXU
http://world wide web.youtube.com/spotter?5=Z_qFip9XOsQ
http://world wide web.youtube.com/spotter?5=yXxpN1B7CYs

Day22 Outside:
http://www.youtube.com/spotter?v=jJpqXeFcaKg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUCj4yvTeXI

Day27 Corral:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08K5dWiKoJc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?five=Hdom_ppVWL0
http://world wide web.youtube.com/watch?v=gIUu3TA0LHY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8MlDqR4Iao
http://www.youtube.com/watch?five=6emMDdVPWtM
http://www.youtube.com/scout?v=jID1m5bDziE

• #14

Prissy! I want to thank everyone very much for this outpouring of valuable cognition, it'south great

• #16

I have a question. I have a doe who just gave birth to a litter of three. They are near to be a calendar week onetime simply I don't know what to do about the fur. Most of it is twined with bedding and hay simply I dont know if I should try and have out the hay as much as possible or if I should throw information technology out? I really dont know and I dont want then to get nest box eye. (This is also my starting time time having kits that arent a cat or dog)

equally long as it isn't soaked in pee so y'all are fine to keep information technology. that's what i practice and i my 15 years of raising i have never had nest box eye.

• #eighteen

I constitute out about using some CareFresh natural paper bedding in the nest boxes nether the straw to help absorb urine. Information technology helps quite a bit. When I tried it without the bedding and just soft straw, I had to change it out more frequently. Information technology doesn't take much of the bedding fabric to help, either. It is squeamish to know of multiple bedding options to assist with that urine!

• #20

@ladysown that makes sense that it comes from the doe.

I try to clean my nest boxes when the start opening their eyes. Continue equally much of the dry out fur and bedding and basically remake the nest: clean paper bedding, harbinger, and then hay, with the fur on meridian. By that signal it's more than for familiar olfactory property than warmth every bit they are pretty fluffy past then. I don't feel clean until they are non using the nest box anymore.

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