09/30/2026
Last night, I noticed that one of the kits was sitting in the corner of the cage outside of the nest box. In my experience, that's a sign that it's urgently time to move the nest out of the box into the corner of the cage so that no one gets left outside alone at night.
It's not terribly cold outside yet and the bunnies have a good amount of fur at this age. But their feet get damp from exploring the cage, and they need the body heat of their siblings to stay warm.
Rabbit kits begin to open their eyes around 12 to 14 days old. We have two litters that are growing out right now and I took the boxes out of both cages at the same time. Both litters had a few babies with their eyes open and a few that weren't open yet.
I was glad when I looked in on them this morning to see everyone huddled together in their corner.
