Pregnancy of a doe-rabbit – the most concerning period for her owner, especially for this purpose whose favourite is going to become a mom for the first time. Owners of rabbits are concerned, as a rule, by such questions: "How many krolchat will be in a dung?", "Will pass everything normally or there will be problems?". But first of all, everyone krolikovod has to know how to define pregnancy of a doe-rabbit.
Instruction
1. To learn that doe-rabbit she is pregnant, you can by means of a male. Place him to a female in 5-15 days after alleged knitting and observe behavior of a doe-rabbit. The pregnant female will chase a rabbit on a cage, to growl on him, to try to bite, flatly refusing his courtings. But such test for pregnancy of a doe-rabbit is not always authentic. Sometimes there is also it that the impregnated female allows a male to make a repeated covering.
2. The most reliable way of definition of pregnancy of a doe-rabbit is the palpation. But you see off it not earlier than in 10 days after alleged fertilization. Put a female on a horizontal surface the head to yourself. Support by the left hand a doe-rabbit for a sacrum, finger-tips of the right hand carefully probe germs. They settle down, as a rule, in the form of a chain of a back part of a stomach of a female on each side.
3. If the doe-rabbit is pregnant, her uterus is strongly increased in sizes and filled with liquid. And embryos in the form remind small nutlets. You make a palpation extremely accurately. You do not press and do not clamp kids between fingers.
4. During pregnancy the doe-rabbit, as a rule, eats much bigger amount of food, than before knitting with a male. It will be explained by the fact that in its womb develop and grow the krolchat. In one-two weeks prior to emergence krolchat on light the appetite of a doe-rabbit returns to the same level, as before her pregnancy.
5. To learn that the doe-rabbit is pregnant, you can and on emergence in it of bad habit – to throw out from the feeding trough habitual food in search of something more tasty. Though ill-bred choosy females can do it constantly, without being pregnant women.
6. Many doe-rabbits during pregnancy, preparing for emergence krolchat on light, construct for them a nest from the down which is pulled out from own tummy.