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Post by Mattttt on May 14, 2018 15:11:34 GMT -5
Hi
So my jill and hob have always lived together, we separated them a few weeks before she gave birth but let them still come out and play together. It's now 4 weeks later and we have tried to introduce them back together, not forcefully though, all on the jills terms just as and when she's wanted to come out.
When she comes out and mixes with the hob she bites the scruff of his neck and doesn't let go, she drags him around, she jumps on his back.
Is this normal behaviour and will she eventually go back to how she was?
Side note, this is her first litter.
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Post by Sherry on May 14, 2018 17:33:27 GMT -5
She is chasing him away from her kits as he may kill them. Please do not let them interact ATM.
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Post by Mattttt on May 15, 2018 2:05:15 GMT -5
She is chasing him away from her kits as he may kill them. Please do not let them interact ATM. Hi sherry, thank you for the reply, however, the hob is nowhere near the kits. We know we had to keep them totally separate. But the jill will go to the extent to go inside the hobs hutch and drag him around his own house. We don't force her out and the hob isn't allowed bear her hutch. Is this still totally normal. |
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Post by Sherry on May 15, 2018 6:06:32 GMT -5
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Post by Poseidon on May 15, 2018 9:22:45 GMT -5
She feel threatened and is warning him to stay away, if you keep letting them mix then the jill may eat her young in order to hide them from the hob, although the hob isn't likely to eat or kill a kit with intention, he may try and carry it off away from the nest. Jills are strange in that way but they're not the only animals that eat their young when feel threatened by another feert is nearby.
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Post by crazylady on May 17, 2018 12:57:28 GMT -5
Hi you are both correct she feels threatened and wants the hob well away from her kits even later when there are no kits there is no guarantee she will accept him back I have known of a couple of hobs who have killed kits simply to try and entice the jill to come back into season so he can mate again I always give my nursing mums a wide birth from any males some can even be upset by females each jill is different take care bye for now
Bev
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Post by Heather on May 18, 2018 21:52:57 GMT -5
Agreed....these two should not be near each other right now.
ciao
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