Next Article: Tips for fostering babies to another nest box. Seven weeks is weaning age for busy bunnies! The little buck will be make a pet for someone, and his sisters all have flower names: Lily, Jasmine, Tulip, Dahlia, and Iris. He’s too small to have a setback in weight gain. I did leave the litter’s runt with foster mom Starr for a while longer, in case he’s still nursing. After this last litter photo, they went to their own cages, by pairs. One of the smallest species of wild rabbit is the Marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris), an excellent swimmer that weighs 2.22.6 kg (4.95.7 lb). These girls and boy were so busy this week, it was hard to get a photo of all of them at the same time. These young rabbits are now six weeks of age. Five weeks old now! They grow so fast.Īt six weeks old, the runt weighs now 9 oz.! The others are doing very well. He really liked it once he got use to it. having been supplemented with some peas baby food over the last week. Litter of Four Week Old Baby Holland Lops

The American Rabbit Breeders Association states that this breed’s maximum weight is 2 pounds. Here’s the four-week-old group shot! The runt is at the far left. Among domestic rabbits, the Netherland Dwarf is often cited as the smallest breed. These cute broken baby lops are three weeks old. Otherwise, the litter is doing very well. I think I’ll put it on peas baby food, if the little one will cooperate with me. I’m worried that the runt isn’t gaining any additional weight. These guys are certainly looking a lot more like bunnies this week, now that they are three weeks old. He's much smaller than his sisters, but they're all cute! I hope it’s getting double feedings that way! I’m glad the moms have not been hostile toward the little traveler. It is so small, it travels between the wire of the two cages that have the litter’s mom and a foster mom in them. The runt (front bunny in the photo) has gained a good bit of weight, gaining from 1/2 oz. The smallest newborn baby weighs only about one half ounce! Can you spot the tiny runt in the middle? He is only a few inches long.Īt week 2, they babies are looking very nice. They are about one week old in this picture. I worried that he would not make it, given the size difference. I knew that the tiny one in this litter could not be a peanut. That means that Legolas does not carry the dwarfing gene, and can’t produce the lethal “peanuts.” This is Legolas: Saynora's Legolas: False Dwarf Lop RabbitĪ pretty doe named Steffi was bred to Legolas and had six babies! One was much smaller than the rest.

Raising-Rabbits.Saynora’s Legolas is a false dwarf buck, confirmed by many litters.^ 'Herzlich Willkommen auf den Webseiten des Teddykaninchen-Clubs'.^ a b Standard of Perfection 2016-2020.'Heterochrony within species: craniofacial growth in giant, standard, and dwarf rabbits'. : Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) Uppsala: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics: 1–26. 'Identification and analysis of the dwarf mutation in domestic rabbits (Master's Thesis)' (PDF). Also included is a small breed from Germany, the Teddy Dwarf. The following table includes rabbit breeds currently recognized by ARBA or by the BRC that have a maximum weight of 4 kg (8.8 lb).

One of the smallest species of wild rabbit is the Marsh rabbit ( Sylvilagus palustris), an excellent swimmer that weighs 2.2–2.6 kg (4.9–5.7 lb). Some small rabbits (often mixed breeds) are a false dwarf, a rabbit that did not inherit the dwarfing gene. They have attained their small stature solely through selective breeding of successively smaller generations (a processing called dwarfing). Many small rabbit breeds have the dwarfing gene, but the Polish and the Britannia Petite are among those that do not. Its short neck and rounded face are additional features of neoteny. The small stature of the Netherland Dwarf was initially the result of the dwarfing gene: dw. The American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) accepts a weight range of 1.1–3.5 kg (2.4–7.7 lb), but 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) is the maximum allowed by the British Rabbit Council (BRC). The Netherland Dwarf is the smallest of the domestic rabbits.

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