Pregnant rabbits

We do not recommend breeding rabbits unless you know what you are doing and are responsibly breeding them for a utilitarian purpose like showing or for meat. Because this is a wiki dedicated to house rabbit care, we believe all house rabbits should be spayed and neutered and not given the opportunity to make more babies. There are plenty of rabbits available for adoption in local shelters and rabbit rescues, and we do not need any more people irresponsibly producing more rabbits just to abandon or dump them in a shelter or other sources.

However, in the event of an accidental pregnancy because you placed two intact rabbits together of the opposite sex out of ignorance or on accident, we will provide the following helpful information to deal with it.

Discovering a Pregnancy
If you have discovered that one of your intact female rabbits has become pregnant early enough, please consider giving the bun an emergency spay to terminate the pregnancy. A pregnancy detected after 2.5 weeks is probably too far along for an emergency spay, but talk to your local rabbit-savvy veterinarian to get his opinion. There are enough unwanted pet rabbits in shelters all over the world, and there is no need to bring more into life without the firm knowledge there will be loving permanent homes for every single one of them until the end of their natural lifespan.