French angora/Holland lop kits would most likely look extremely adorable. So that’s not a problem. Rabbits are however born furless and open their eyes after like 10-14 days, so they wont pop out fuzzy and loppy (the ears dont lop until later, if they lop).

Dont trust a diaper to stop Gretchen’s sexual urges. It only takes a second for buns to mate. Keep him and your Holland bun separate and keep in mind rabbits can mate through cage bars. A boy bun can have viable sperm for 4-5 weeks after neuter, so that’s how long he’ll be capable of impregnating any intact female.

I dont quite understand how many buns you have in your home now. Are there more than Gretchen and your Holland lop?

I dont think he could mate through the diaper, I meant he could perhaps remove the diaper himself and go for it 🙂

I was only wondering if you perhaps had many buns, because that would be a more difficult situation, housing-wise. If there were many rabbits you could need help from the humane society. With 2 rabbits, the situation seems manageable.

Young rabbits are notoriously difficult to sex, even vets get it wrong sometimes.

Oh my, this isn’t a good situation. I’m sorry you are having to deal with this. Babies can be difficult to sex correctly. If someone looked at them when they were really young, declared them girls, and didn’t reevaluate once they got a little older then I can see how the shelter could have mistakenly told you they were all girls. After all, testicles do not become visible until they start reaching puberty. This can be as early as 12 weeks, but can be much later than that (even if they are starting to show signs of becoming hormonal).

Bam gave you some good advice. Keeping them separated at all times will ensure mating doesn’t occur again. You don’t know if your bunny is pregnant at this point or not. Your options are emergency spay or wait and see if babies appear. As for what the potential babies would look like, I wouldn’t worry too much. There is this little thing called a fuzzy Holland. The wool gene was actually intentionally introduced into Holland lops in an attempt to keep the rollback coat in certain colors. The side effect of this was fuzzy Hollands (babies with two copies of the wool gene). So the babies from a Holland x Angora cross may have regular fur, mid length fur, or fuzzy fur (depending on what genes your Holland has). As for the ears… probably helicopter. Soooooo cute! The humane society would have no problem rehoming, I’m sure.

BUT… let’s hope she isn’t pregnant.

Haha, bunny testicles do have a special look! People can be frightened at the first glimpse of them, especially if they (like you) were told they had a girl bun. I remember one instance when the bun owner feared her young female bun had developed some sort of tumors 😦 They weren’t tumors 😃

If your bun isnt pregnant and you get  both buns fixed, maybe they could make a beautiful bonded couple? You typically wait 4 weeks after the castrations to try and bond two buns. We have a bonding-section in case you’d be interested.

As LBJ says, the combination French angora/Holland lop could result in some  fuzzy lops (I dont know the statistical likelihood, but the American fuzzy lop originates from such a combo), but even if you were to get smooth-haired non-lops, I’m confident they’d be adorable. Most pet rabbits and shelter rabbits are “mongrels”. Since you agreed to foster the angoras under the premise that they were girls, I think the Humane Society would help you find good homes for the kits -IF there will be kits.

I dont think you need to think about it much for now. You have a vet appt on Jan 6, you don’t need to do anything differently until then.

A pregnant doe will want to eat a bit more, but rabbits as a rule always want to eat a bit more than we give them, so that’s not a sure sign. The doe might stop eating when the birth is drawing near. Normal gestation period is +- 32 days. She won’t nest until the very last days of her pregnancy. It’s advisable to provide her with some nesting material around that time. She’ll pull fur from her chest, which is ok, the hormones make the hair come loose so it isnt painful when she pulls fur. She’ll use it to wrap up the naked kits so they keep warm.

Contrary to cats and dogs, the rabbit mum wont “lay” with her kits. In nature, the kits will be in a separate burrow, and the mum only visits once or twice per 24 hours for a quick feeding. Rabbit milk is extremely fat, so the kits get a lot of nourishment from these quick feedings.

Keep in mind though, false pregnancies are common in intact rabbits. Rabbits (just like llamas, fun random fact) are induced ovulators, meaning ovulation can occur spontaneously upon encountering a male even at a distance. Once ovulation is a fact, the rabbit body will go through the exact same “hormonal storm” as an actually pregnant doe, complete with nesting and fur-pulling. There wont be any kits of course, and the symptoms always resolve spontaneously after the “non-birth”.

We’d be very happy for updates!

Well done of you to help her! It is unfortunately very common for very young first-time bun mums to not quite grasp the concept of mothering. Very often the kits dont survive because of this. If that should happen, know that you are in no way to blame, it is truly difficult to rear baby buns. It sounds very wise to keep the nest in a dog crate, an all too common COD in baby buns is that they (blindly) wander off from the nest and succumb to hypothermia.

Will you be getting any help from the rescue when the time comes to find new homes for the little ones?

Mom buns only feed the babies a couple times a day, so it is quite normal to not see her spend a lot of time with them. If you check the babies bellies you can see if they are being fed.

I’m not an expert, but I think it’s also OK (and even recommended) to handle the babies daily to help them get used to human touch and to make sure they are all healthy. 🙂

It’s so sad when this happens but I’m sure they are soooo cute!

Hope to see pics of the babies!

Aww little guys! It’s common for new moms to not be great at carrying for them, they are lucky to have you!

Rabbits do like to pee on the ones they love. In the rabbit universe, its a compliment. It tends to subside with spaying/neutering, but intact rabbits can be quite determined when it comes to peeing on their human. Rabbits also like to pee on soft things like beds and sofas, and that often goes for both intact and spay/neutered rabbits.

It’s very good that the little ones want to hang out with you, but I think you want to block them from accessing your bed. It gets really tedious to have to change you bed linen all the time 😖

As for the cat, I think its best if you can keep the buns away from him. Rabbits are curious, esp baby rabbits, they want to explore everything. They’re pretty much totally clueless at this young age, so they’re unlikely to understand any signals your cat is giving off.

Cardboard is ok to an extent, but huge quantities of it can cause GI trouble and blockages. Hay is a huge lot better, twigs are good too. You want to make sure that any twigs you give are not treated with pesticides. Willow is as a rule not treated with pesticides, willow is naturally resistant to pests. I recently got a whole bunch of willow from someone who was pruning their willows, my rabbits are having a lot of fun gnawing and eating the bark off the twigs.