The death of animals in households gives a lot of trouble and significant damage.
About the causes of deaths among rabbits and their offspring during childbirth and after them will be discussed in this article.
Features of the birth process
A sucker rabbit gains peace, a good appetite, plentifully drinks, shows complete indifference to the male, and when trying to cover behaves aggressively, responds to the male with a complete refusal. You must remember the date of the match in order to correct the exact date of the circle.
Find out more about how long it lasts and how to determine the rabbit suckling.
Pregnancy rabbit runs 28-33 days. After seven days of successful conception, the female gains weight, its sides become rounded. Shortly before giving birth, it becomes similar to a voluminous fluffy ball, which has little movement. 
Almost developed bunnies begin to move on the 25th day of their stay in the womb. Most often, childbirth occurs on the 31-32 day of bearing babies at night or in the early morning, much less frequently in the daytime.
Did you know? Rabbits - excellent jumpers. Long jumps reach three meters, and in height - meter.
The process of childbirth is simple and does not require outside help. Only in rare cases, the intervention of a veterinarian is necessary.
The bunny rabbit is arranged more comfortably, that is, it sits down in such a way that the children who go out find themselves between her hind legs. After the birth of all the rabbits, the mother will eat the afterbirth and carefully lick the cubs. Newborns (bald and blind) come out of the birth canal with their hind legs forward and can suck milk on their own.
On average, childbirth takes about an hour, but often after 20 minutes the offspring is licked and fed.
The average number of newborns in a litter is close to 5-8 babies. In solitary cases, about 12-15 rabbits are possible.
Important! The more newborns in the litter, the shorter the time (term) for carrying, and vice versa. The reasons for this fact are not identified.
The rabbit breeder needs to check for survivability (presence of movement, reaction to touching ...) of all the rabbits and remove the stillborn. 
The little rabbit died in childbirth: causes
The death of a rabbit in childbirth has many causes. We select and consider the following: physiological features and obesity of the rabbit.
Features of physiology
Some features of the physiological structure of the rabbit adversely affect its generic activity. Small pelvis is the reason. Toddlers are simply not able to leave the birth canal and get stuck somewhere on the way to the exit. Dead flesh of unborn calves decomposes, infecting the female and forming an extensive inflammatory process.
When growing rabbits, it will also be useful for you to find out: why the rabbit grit its teeth and does not eat, why the rabbit tears down the fluff, why the rabbit became sluggish and stopped eating, why the rabbit made the nest and does not give birth, why the rabbit is bleeding, why the rabbit fester and eyes swell, why rabbits don't mate, why rabbits die.
Carefully follow the sukrolnaya rabbit and her childbirth. Help the vet in such a situation - the main condition for a successful birth. When mating a female and male, choose the right material, that is, do not pair the female of small dimensions with the male giant and the like. 
Obesity
Rabbit obesity (overweight) is an extremely undesirable phenomenon for a laboring individual. Lack of feed, their low energy value and the generic process that takes energy and forces contribute to the breakdown of accumulated fat, in which ketone (acetone) bodies are released.
Their increased concentration in the rabbit's blood has a negative, destructive effect on the liver, brain, and kidneys (an autopsy reveals an enlarged yellow liver). Ketone bodies poison the body of the rabbit's babies through milk. The treatment is ineffective.
Use high-quality food and do not violate their quantitative and nutritional norms, make special herbs in the diet to protect the liver of animals.
Important! If the rabbit ate her newborn babies once, repeated the same in the next, then she is excluded from breeding.
Why do rabbits die after a moment
The presence of a bleeding rabbit, loss of appetite, extreme emaciation, depressed state require the adoption of immediate measures to solve the problem. 
Detention of an afterbirth
One of the reasons for the unsatisfactory condition of the female has given birth is the retention of the placenta. If the afterbirth has not left the birth canal within three hours, then this can lead to death.
Among the reasons for the detention of the placenta are:
- insufficient uterine contraction;
- fusion of the placenta in inflammatory processes in the placenta and various diseases;
- mechanical obstacles to the expulsion of the afterbirth - inflection and invagination of the horns of the uterus;
- narrowing of the cervical canal, etc.
The latter decomposes, decays, which brings a lot of inconvenience to the rabbit. Lack of medical care will lead to death.
Did you know? The smallest rabbits live in North America (breed Little Idaho). Animals reach 35 cm in length and weigh about 400 grams.
Prolapse of the uterus
Another reason for the rabbit's depressed and painful well-being is prolapse of the uterus, which is observed both during and after childbirth. A scolded uterus is colored dark brownish-red, swollen severely and involves the intervention of a veterinarian. 
Subinvolution of the uterus
The next reason for the stable poor state of the female is subinvolution of the uterus, that is, the retarded process of development of the uterus in the postpartum period. This process can take three months and consists in loss of tonus and contractility of the uterus.
At the same time, there are bleeding or, on the contrary, the absence of lochial postpartum discharge for the first 5-6 days, fever, lack of appetite, a decrease in lactation, the occurrence of mastitis, diseases of the urinary organs. The result of the disease becomes infertility.
Unsuitable feeding and the water regime, difficult labor with signs of disruption of the normal labor process can provoke the disease.
Postpartum Endometritis
Another cause of the difficult postpartum position of the female is endometritis, caused by inflammation of the uterine mucosa in the postpartum period.
There are:
- acute endometritis. Appears on the 2nd-5th day after the generic process, the temperature of the female rises on average by one degree, the appetite disappears, the amount of milk decreases, the vaginal discharge has a putrid odor. Early treatment gives a positive result after 6-12 days;
- chronic endometritis. Protracted disease becomes chronic, which is detected 1-1.5 months after estrus. Observed too scanty discharge from the loop.
Treatment consists of prescribing broad-spectrum antibiotics and drugs that help to reduce the uterus. Often the illness is combined with sepsis, perimetritis, parametritis. The deplorable consequences of the disease are temporary or permanent infertility.Did you know? Rabbits are real silents, but the contented rabbit purrs, aggressive growls and grunts, frightened knocking with his teeth, irritated whines.
Why do rabbits die
Newborn rabbits up to a month are endowed with strong immunity, thanks to the use of mother's milk. But still, sometimes small bunnies die. As a rule, the rabbit's state of health and the general sanitary condition of the cage directly affect this.
The main causes of death are:
- staphylococcus (purulent boils on the rabbit's body). But it occurs infrequently and in conditions of extreme unsanitary conditions. Perform a complete disinfection of the cell with a method suitable for you using special means. Treat sore spots with the procedure of cleansing of purulent formations with disinfectants (30% carbolic or 50% brilliant acid) once a day. If necessary, enter biocillin 15-20 units under the skin. on 1 kg of weight (it is possible to replace with penicillin, streptomycin);
- low air temperature. Not only rabbits can freeze, adults also suffer from a lack of heat. Seal all the cracks in the room, put additional sources of heating (if absolutely necessary), increase the amount of fluff in the nest;
- violation of lactation in the female. A sick, depleted individual is not able to give babies full-fledged milk in the right quantity, in addition, infection and toxins are transferred to babies. Improve the diet with good nutrition, increase the amount of warm clean water, turn on vitamin supplements in the feed, take health measures to care for the nursing female. Destroy substandard food (rotten, frozen), since the mycotoxins present in them with mother's milk will lead to the death of the rabbit (you will find the corpses of rabbits with full tummies);
- stomatitis (rabbits grit their teeth). Tiny creatures are not able to suck milk, as pain, swelling in the mouth, abundant saliva interfere with the normal consumption of milk. Stomatitis affects rabbits of all breeds for 23 days and then up to three months of crumbs. The causative agent is a filterable virus. A neglected disease is fatal. Set aside sick individuals, and vaccinate healthy. Add iodine or potassium permanganate (0.5 mg per liter) to water. At the initial stage, treatment consists in irrigating the oral cavity with penicillin, 15% potassium permanganate, smearing with penicillin ointment, sprinkling with streptocide powder. In severe cases, do not do without antibiotics;
- stressful situations. Rude treatment, crowded cage, incessant noisy sounds, shouts provoke the death of a weak pet.
Preventive measures
Preventive measures are as follows:
- choose a room dry, ventilated, warm;
- disinfect all personnel equipment and clothing before baking;
- make sure that there is enough fluff in the nest, otherwise naked newborn babies will freeze;
- clean manure regularly and change litter;
- systematically change the water to fresh, occasionally add iodine or manganese to it;
- provide the female with good nutrition, and babies with healthy milk;
- conduct regular routine examinations of the rabbits for the presence of patients. Seed the last in separate cells, and better in another room;
- process the cells every other day with a blowtorch in case of detection of sick rabbits;
- follow the rules of vaccination in order to avoid infection with the most dangerous ailments;
- watch the silence in the room, eliminate strong frightening sounds and signals.
Important! The case of sick and sick rabbits is strictly prohibited. The procedure threatens to obtain potentially infected offspring.
Maintaining your own farm is not an easy task. Observing the above rules and recommendations, the farmer can get a healthy offspring from his rabbits.
