Wow, blogs can be like time machines. I looked through the archives and found an entry I wrote in December 2007 about a litter of baby rabbits that had just been born. It's not been a good few years for rabbits here on the ol' urban homestead. We had 5 litters born here last year, two by one doe that had them outside of her nestbox and all died.  The surviving litters were all born in February and March 2010, which means that it's been almost a year since a live litter has been born here.

I bred several does over the last few months, but no babies have been born. So, today I decided to give them one last try, and bred the does to the bucks. We still have Roger, who was the father of the litter I wrote about in 12/07. He's not as spry as he was in his younger days, and he hasn't successfully sired a litter since May 2009 but the ol' guy is a permanent retiree here so he gets a doe now and then. Today he had a tryst with a lovely castor doe and I really, really hope that Roger isn't permanently sterile from the heat because it would be an awesome genetic combination. If any of the does actually conceive, we should have babies a few days over a year since the last live litter was born here.

However... I told The Man if I don't get any live litters by summer (when it gets too hot to breed rabbits) then I am going to get out of them completely, save for Roger who will become a house bunny.  The rabbit manure has been awesome for the garden though, so I might relent and keep a couple.