Tammy22
04-16-2008, 08:16 AM
Hi Everyone,
i was just thinking about runts in a litter, after seeing a few pics of runts.
I have never noticed any 'runt' in any of my Roborovski litters, although there has always been a smaller one in every litter, they just never looked like the runts i have seen in Syrian litters.
To me they look as if they have not yet fully developed, they dont just look smaller than all of the rest of the litter, they actually look as if they are younger than the others in the litter.
I have recently started to breed rabbits (expecting a litter in a few weeks!!) and have read that you should mate a rabbit once, then again in 12 hours and apparently this increases the size of the litter because the act of mating releases eggs and twice as many eggs are released so twice are fertilised (apparently :roll: ) so i was thinking that maybe something similar happens with Syrians, maybe the runt is actually slightly younger than the rest of the litter??
Sorry, i think i am just mumbling :oops: , but does any of this make any sense to anyone? and is it at all possible?
The fact that most of the runts catch up to the rest of their siblings, seem to support my idea.
Tammy x
ps. is there always a runt in a Syrian litter?
i was just thinking about runts in a litter, after seeing a few pics of runts.
I have never noticed any 'runt' in any of my Roborovski litters, although there has always been a smaller one in every litter, they just never looked like the runts i have seen in Syrian litters.
To me they look as if they have not yet fully developed, they dont just look smaller than all of the rest of the litter, they actually look as if they are younger than the others in the litter.
I have recently started to breed rabbits (expecting a litter in a few weeks!!) and have read that you should mate a rabbit once, then again in 12 hours and apparently this increases the size of the litter because the act of mating releases eggs and twice as many eggs are released so twice are fertilised (apparently :roll: ) so i was thinking that maybe something similar happens with Syrians, maybe the runt is actually slightly younger than the rest of the litter??
Sorry, i think i am just mumbling :oops: , but does any of this make any sense to anyone? and is it at all possible?
The fact that most of the runts catch up to the rest of their siblings, seem to support my idea.
Tammy x
ps. is there always a runt in a Syrian litter?