Today we visited the studio of NBC26 Green Bay with some of our furry farm animals. As we begin preparing for our May 1st opening we find a lot of new baby farm animals being born. We wanted to share a few of them with you here.

• A male rabbit is a buck, a female rabbit is a doe, the baby rabbit is a kit (short for kitten) and the kits collectively are referred to as a litter. 

• The mother doe will pull hair from her chest to line her nest making her nest a nice warm place for her kits.

• Rabbits are born hairless and blind. Their eyes do not open until they are 10-14 days old.

• Does do not pick up and move their rabbits like dogs or cats. Therefore, if a kit is born outside of the nest you must move it to the nest for the rabbit.

• Rabbit teeth grow throughout their life, thus necessitating constant chewing to keep them from growing too long.

• A four pound rabbit will drink as much water as a 20 pound dog.

• Domestic rabbits cannot breed with wild rabbits. (Difference in chromosome numbers won’t allow it.)

• The only place a rabbit sweats is through the pads on its feet.

• A pet rabbit can live as long as 10 years.

• The largest recorded number of kits born in a litter is 24!

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