Those who breed and sell rabbits know that the process of mating in animals can cause considerable difficulties.
It is necessary to maintain at the optimum level many parameters in order to achieve pregnancy, as well as the appearance of healthy young animals.
Further you will learn about what hunting is, how it manifests itself, and what to do if the bunny does not want to mate.
What is sexual hunting in rabbits
Sexual hunting is a time period during which the rabbit, being sexually mature, is ready to mate with a male. Readiness is evidenced by both external signs and the behavior of the animal. 
The period of readiness for intercourse does not last long, only 26-40 hours. Then comes a kind of rest period, during which the female will not want to mate, even if she is placed on the male. It lasts from 5 to 7 days.
Find out when it is possible to let the rabbit on the mating, how long it lasts and how to determine the pregnancy, how it goes around the winter at street maintenance.
In the cold season, the failure period can be delayed up to 1 month, inclusive, since the animal understands that the conditions for pregnancy and raising young are not favorable.
How to determine the hunting rabbit
Even inexperienced breeders can easily determine the presence of attraction on the external genitals, which slightly swell and turn pink. Also, the female begins to behave aggressively: rushes at the owner, scratches the cage, scatters the food.
Often, females begin to build a nest of straw or hay before mating, and also pluck down fluff.
Important! In some cases, the female can pull out fluff due to a mental disorder, namely a false pregnancy. The animal thinks that it will soon give birth, therefore, it is constantly engaged in preparing the nest and practically does not eat.
You can manually check the presence of sexual attraction in a rabbit. To do this, slowly hold your hand along the spine from neck to tail. The animal should raise the pelvis, then lie down on the stomach and stretch the back. It is in this position that intercourse takes place. 
Possible reasons for the failure of females mating
- Extreme heat, during which the animal hardly regulates its body temperature. This is usually observed in June and July.
- Unbalanced diet or nutritional deficiencies.
- Lack of the necessary amount of vitamins and minerals in the feed.
- Light day less than 7 hours.
- A large number of young stock from past litters.
- Any diseases that force the body to expend energy on the destruction of pathogenic flora.
- Obesity.
- Old age.
- Lack of free space when kept in a cage.
- Inappropriate partner.
- Stress.
- Shedding.
How to bring a rabbit into the hunt
If the animal has no health problems, daylight and temperature conditions are adjusted, and the ration contributes to mating, then it is necessary to resort to artificial stimulation, including with the help of medicines.
Did you know? For 10 years of life in captivity, an animal can give birth to up to 300 cubs. Under natural conditions, the female will give life at best 20-30 baby rabbits.
But before applying the pills, it is necessary to check all possible causes of the rejection of mating. 
It is necessary to try such methods of hunting stimulation one by one:
- add celery to the ration;
- to sow the young from the female;
- give fortified supplements;
- place the cage with the rabbit so that it can come into contact with the males, or at least see them;
- organize an increase in daylight hours to 18 hours inclusive.
If none of the above helps, then you need to contact a veterinarian, or immediately order a hormonal stimulating drug. For these purposes is used "Follimag".
It is affordable and relatively inexpensive, and can also be used to stimulate hunting in cows, pigs, sheep, and fur animals.
Important! It is forbidden to introduce a stimulant to immature females.
How to use: the contents of the bottle must be diluted in saline (sodium chloride 0.9%). In the instructions, which comes with the drug, the dosage is specified in IU, but this option is difficult to convert to grams or milliliters. 
For this reason, to prevent an overdose, you should take 20 cubes of saline solution for 1 bottle. Each female is injected with 1 cube of the finished substance subcutaneously on the inner side of the thigh.
Watch the hunt can be the next day after application. If the drug does not work, then reuse is allowed only after 20 days. You can use the "Follymag" to call the attraction of the males.
For the care of rabbits, it is also important for you to know how many years rabbits of different breeds live at home, how to feed rabbits in winter, what water to water rabbits, how to use rabbit manure as fertilizer.
How to find out if the rabbit walked
There are two main ways to find out if a female is pregnant or not:
- On the 5-8th day after mating, the rabbit should be re-hoisted to the crawl. If she starts to fight back in every way, growl, push away the male, showing disinterest in intercourse, it means that everything went well.
- Accuracy can be accurately determined only on the 12-15th day by palpating the abdominal cavity. If, during feeling, you find several large oval-shaped lumps, then the female is pregnant.
Of course, in some vetptekakh can be found tests that accurately show the presence or absence of pregnancy. They are quite expensive, and they should be applied after a certain time, when the egg is fertilized.Did you know? In rabbits, the uterus is divided into two cavities, which allows them to bear two litters at once. And they can be conceived at different times and from different males. True, this happens quite rarely and adversely affects the health of the female.
Despite the fact that rabbits are quite fertile, it is not always possible to cause attraction in the female or male. Most often, problems arise in the fall or winter, so many owners use drugs to solve them.
Remember that a sick rabbit will not be able to give healthy offspring even with the use of artificial stimulation. Also, such methods can lead to the death of the animal.
