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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  Leading reproductive specialists will concur if you have a breeder, you need to keep her bred...it is the skipped heat cycles that wreck havoc on the reproductive system of breeding females. If you are keeping the breeding female in tip top shape, with correct diet and exercise, it is best for the females to breed them every cycle. When you no longer want to breed the female, spay her before she comes into heat again....it is the hormones hammering the system that cause the problems. But she needs to be kept in the best condition possible...she is an athlete and needs to be treated like one with her diet, exercise, etc. (Skip a cycle if you had to have a c-section.) |
That is the case with rabbits as well, they say that fat deposits develop around their ovaries if they are too old when first bred also, of course the are ovulating all but two to three days of each month with a gestational average of 28 days- just amazing. I wonder if it is the hormones from the heat cycles that are damaging to rabbits as well? I wonder what that means for us humans? Particularly in the case of lactation. Some of my children were very close together and the last two with overlapping lactation-yikes that took a toll! I guess that is where the tip top shape comes in, I would often stare at my fat pregnant goats chewing grass in the subscribe and long to trade places as I mucked the barn or loaded into the car to head to work, lol.