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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

The ph of the doe's milk can change if she gets overheated or stressed.

During hot weather we always kept a bunch of milk jugs that we had filled
with water in an old chest freezer.  As the day warmed up we put one in each
rabbit cage and aimed a fan from the end of each row.  Kept all the rabbits
cool and we never lost any bunnies or adults from heat even when it reached
into the hundreds.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Melody O." <melody AT crecon.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 7:59 PM
Subject: [Homestead] Rabbit troubles


> A very weird thing happened in the past couple of weeks.  I had a rabbit
> have a litter of 7 bunnies.  They survived and thrived the first few days,
> but almost exactly one week to the day all but one bunny had died.  I
> checked on that bunny every day for the first few days it was alone, and
it
> always had a full tummy and was growing well.  Well, almost exactly one
> week from the day the others had died, this bunny died too!  What could
> have gone wrong?  It has been hot here, do you think they have more
> problems with being mamas when its hot?
>
> I will watch this particular mama again and see how she does with her next
> litter.  I think this was her first litter, so maybe that had something to
> do with it, but boy was that a weird experience!
>
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Melody
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