i have a little rabbit and i cant tell if its a boy or girl
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PLease visit www.rabbit.org. They can help you figure it out and answer all of your bunny related questions. If you have any questions they can't answer, please visit your local veterinarian.
By the way, if you are keeping this rabbit as a pet, I strongly recommend to spay or neuter it. Unfixed rabbits have a higher rate of mammary and/or testicular cancer even than other species.
-a rabbit owner and veterinarian
Here is a site with good pictures of what you'll need to look for.
Sexing rabbits is not really hard to do. You can usually do a good job identifying a buck from a doe, at least from the age of 3 weeks and on. An older buck is easy to identify. The head and body is generally more blocky than the doe. Does of the medium and large breeds often develop a fold of skin under their chins. This fold is called a dewlap. Older does are usually larger than bucks of the same breed. A buck's testicles can be seen on a hot day. The testicles must be kept at a certain temperature in order for sperm to be produced. The testicles descend further on hot days and are brought back toward the body on cool days. In this way their temperature is regulated.
Go to this site, http://www.debmark.com/rabbits/sexing.ht. it gives you the step by step easy way to sex rabbits
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