The Rabbits

These are my breeding stocks. I lost a female New Zealand doe with the red eyes just 3 days ago for some unknown reason. That's her in the picture at the top with the red eyes. She was doing okay the night before but the next morning, she was looking lethargic and would not eat anything. We brought her inside the house and tried to give her some water and tempted her to eat some carrots but she still would not eat. I was going to bring her to the clinic that morning but was told that the vet won't be in until 2 in the afternoon. We called another vet listed in the telephone directory but unfortunately, he was also on field. So we asked if he could drop by our house to check on our sick rabbit, that was 11 AM. By around lunchtime, that rabbit passed away, just like that! I felt so devastated because I could not find anything wrong with her and I felt helpless not knowing what to do because it happened so fast.

 So now, I have only three does left, one New Zealand mixed breed and one Cinnamon mixed breed and one Chinchilla mixed breed. The spotted white and brown buck is a mixed breed of Chinchilla and Cinnamon, he was born on December  15, 2011. The black buck is a mixed breed of New Zealand and Chinchilla breed, he was born on January 02, 2011, barely 6 months old. Baguio City's elevation is at 5,000 feet above sea level and it is usually cool up here but lately, the weather during this summer has been hot. So what we do to make the rabbits feel more comfortable is to give them some iced water bottles. We fill up several 1-litter plastic soda bottles with tap water and freeze them at night. In the mornings, we give these frozen bottles to the rabbits. They would stretch out on their full length on the wire floor and lie down right next to the frozen bottles to keep themselves cool.  They usually spend a lot of time sleeping during the daytime but they are active during the late afternoon when it's almost supper time. We give them more greens and feeds at night because that's when they like to stay up and just keep on eating.