I have two rabbits and i with the intend on breeding with them. I introduced them just over a week ago and they took to one another very well. The male mated the female but we stopped him before too long. Since the encountering my female has been very different and is destroying everything in her hutch and being unsettled. Has her meeting the male brought her into "heat"? Any help appreciated

Females are very territoral, did you introduce them in a hutch she had been in on her own?. She probably wasnt very impressed with him being in "her space".

Good luck.

Doe's do not go into 'heat' like other animals and also do not have 'fertile' periods. Instead, the act of mating causes her to release eggs that may then be fertilised.
That is why rabbits get pregnant so easily. The doe can get pregnant again within moments of giving birth.

What I would suggest though, is that before you do anymore mating that you research in great detail the breeding of rabbits. You also need to consider what you would do with any kits you breed, how you will be able to ensure that they can go to good homes with big enough hutches, room to exercise and where children will not 'lose interest' and whether you have the room to keep them if they are not sold or if they are returned to you (The British Rabbit Council say all member breeders should take back unwanted rabbits).

As I am a childminder I have bred my rabbits a couple of times so that the children can watch them grow and begin to learn and understand more about where rabbits come from and how to care for them. I have sold a couple to very close friends and family whom I know look after them properly, have a good sized hutch and feed them the correct diet. The rest have stayed to live with me, I am the process of neutering them all to live together happily.

My doe has never destroyed her hutch after mating or during pregnancy though and I've never read that is normal behaviour for a pregnant doe but now yours has mated she may want the company of her mate which can lead to that sort of behaviour

Please don't think I'm pre-judging you in any way, but as Vickie will tell you, there are so many unwanted bunnies in rescues that if you choose to breed you must do it responsibly and consider the big picture.

No when we introduced them it was in a neutral place in which she had never been so she didnt see it as her area as she has a 21 x 23 size room to run in so she would see that still being her area.

We have alot of room for rabbits if we didnt sell them so it isnt something we would worry about

I dont really agree with breeding rabbits, the rescues are over run with them. Why do you want to breed them?.
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