During the breeding process, we often encounter the phenomenon of individual female rabbits urinating in the birthing box, which is commonly known as "peeing nest". The bedding in the nest and the bunny's body are wet, which increases the workload. The bunny is difficult to raise and prone to illness. Why does that female rabbit have such a problem? Is there any way to prevent it?

Rabbit urine contains a special chemical substance. The substance can leave a scent mark and tell other rabbits which area is their territory. Therefore, rabbits mark their territory by peeing in their litter boxes.

Rabbits are skittish animals and will choose a safe place to relieve themselves. The whelping box is often a place that rabbits consider to be safer because it is a place where they can hide from danger.

Rabbits have the habit of excreting at fixed points. For example, some rabbits will urinate into the feeding box. If you change the position of the feeding box, the rabbit will no longer follow the feeding box to urinate. The female rabbit will urinate into the birthing box. Once a habit is formed, there is currently no better way to change it. This kind of female rabbit may regard the birth box as a toilet and will be very stubborn in insisting on excreting at a fixed point. Some female rabbits that urinate in the litter box will urinate in the birth box before giving birth, and some will start to urinate in the birth box after giving birth. Some female rabbits were not like this when they gave birth to babies in the last litter, but they started to urinate in the birth box the next litter.

Purinating in the farrowing box before giving birth will make the bedding wet every day. Urinating in the farrowing box after giving birth will make the body and bedding extremely wet, and the body of the pup will be wet. Female rabbits can easily die if they are soaked in urine, especially in the cold winter and spring seasons.

Female rabbits that urinate in nests must be separated from their babies after giving birth, and their babies must be fed regularly. Rabbit feeds milk. As soon as the female rabbit jumps out of the farrowing box, immediately close the farrowing box door. Even so, every time you feed, there will still be many female rabbits that urinate in the litter box. After feeding, you must change the bedding for the rabbits, and wipe the urine on the rabbits with a clean cloth. , managing such a female rabbit will be very troublesome. It has been observed that female rabbits that urinate will continue to do so in the next litter. Therefore, such female rabbits should be eliminated in time after the litter is weaned.