Sunday, August 2, 2009

How long do dwarf bunnies live?


Answers:
The average age of all rabbits is 7 to 8 years, and 10 years isn't unusual.

However, many rabbits die at 3 or 2 or even 1 year of age, particularly through digestive problems, because their digestive systems are very long and fragile, and it's important that they are fed correctly -
http://au.geocities.com/leaswebsite/bunn. (my own website)

And analogously, there are rabbits at the opposite extreme of the 'average' spectrum, who live up to 15 years or even older. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the oldest bunn (in Australia by the way ;) lived to 18 years and 10 months -
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/cont.
We personally know a breeder who had the oldest bunn we have ever known as yet, who lived to 12 years of age :-)

Here's some interesting info on rabbits and age -
http://www.rabbit.org/care/elderbun.html.
http://www.rabbit.org/chapters/san-diego.
Right up until you cook them.
Until they die.
Well.. you know, the average life span for those cuties is about 10 years.
an average of 6 years but up to 10 or even 12 if you take really good care of them
Too freegin' long.
like 20 years
I understand that some dwarf rabbits can live up to 15 years.

Some additional information, they can hav 7 to 12 babies and it should eat about 100 grams or 4 oz of dry food a day also hay and fresh water. Small amounts of hard crunchy vegetables, but never lettuce as this is a laxative.
8 to 10 years
Depends on if they live indoors or outside and if they are fixed. If you have ones that live outside they will live around 5 years because of all the stress and weather problems. If they are indoor about 8-10 years. If you have an unspayed female about 3-5 years because they have a very high cancer rate.

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