I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: whoever came up with the phrase “breed like rabbits” has never owned rabbits. Obviously.

If you’re new to our silly little blog, I’ll fill you in real quick. Dandelion is our fawn-colored doe (female) rabbit. When we first attempted to bred her in the spring, it took three separate breedings to finally get a litter from her. That is three months of waiting folks. Three months of toe tapping and calendar marking expecting to see a litter in the nest box at the end of each thirty day cycle.

Dandelion is also the only agouti rabbit we have. Which means that she is the only rabbit that can contribute to great color genotypes that make those colors to die for like: chestnut, orange fawn, cream fawn, opal, and red.

So of course when we bred her thirty-four days ago I was expecting to see a few of these gorgeous colors in her nest box. But no. Instead, I keep finding an empty box. What does this mean now you ask? Now we wait the full thirty-six days, to make sure that Dandelion isn’t just playing with our heads, and then we will re-breed her on Tuesday hoping that maybe this time she will really take.

Let’s all collectively sigh. {sighhh}

Rabbits are simply never cooperative when you would like them to be.