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my rabbit is pregnant how long/ my rabbit grunts

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Question
hi david,
my rabbit lives in a cage with 3 other rabbits 2 females and 1 male they were born augest 30 and now one is pregnant. i diddn, think they could get pregnant that early. anyways my real questions are she has started bleeding and plucking her fur and i read and i know that is normal but how long can it be before she will have them. and she started plucking the hair from the other rabbits and i read that i should put her in a seperate cage from the rabbits. is there anything else i can do?


  Another question i have to ask u is that one of our other rabbits has recently started grunting. whenever we reach our hands in the cage she starts grunting and chares at us. and now when she does that she bites us and its a hard bite my mother got a blood blister and she bites us hard enough to make us bleed. also whenever we take out and put back one of our other rabbits she wil sorta nip them. WHY IS SHE DOING THIS?";  

Answer
hi rosie.
firstly the doe needs to be on her own, if shes plucking hair she should have babies in the next 24 hrs.
give her plenty of straw or hay to make a nest.
some does get aggresive because its the time of the month and usally it means they want to mate.she will get over it in a few weeks.

dave.