Sexing
Do you humans usually send photographs of your private parts to strangers?
I get lots of pictures of the humans with the intimate parts of bunnies asking for help to tell if it's a girl or a boy.
Usually it is only after 2 or 3 months that you can see with any certainty whether the bunny is male or female, before that it is necessary to have a lot of experience and even then even the most knowledgeable are sometimes wrong.
Of course, if the bunny has testicles, we already know that he is a male, except that sometimes they, with fear and stress, can retract the testicles and cannot be seen.
The testicles may start to be visible around 3 months, there are bunnies in which they appear later , but it is usually around this age.
Many humans when they realize they are frightened because they think there is a problem with their bunny, sometimes they cannot even realize that what appeared suddenly and in the place where it went may be the testicles.
The testicles of the bunnies are not like those of humans or dogs or cats, they are not round , they are more like mini pink footballs.
Image of testicles of rabbits to see, in one you can see the testicles in a still young rabbit, they are still not very low, I made some arrows to see, in the other image you can see the testicles of an adult rabbit, already formed.
Being able to see the bunny's testicles you don't need to see anything else, but what about before that?
So that the process is not too traumatic for the bunny, it is best to do it with the help of someone. Try to handle the bunny carefully and never at any time Belly mess up (see here if you do not know why it should not be to get the belly bunnies up), sit down and hold him leaning against you, with the paws and belly facing forward, with one hand hold the bunny's chest against you and with the other hand hold the paws below, while the other person will carefully spread the hair and expose the rabbit's genital area so that you can understand if it’s a boy or a girl.
The theory is easy, if boy beyond the willies out a little bit out, will look like a ball ahead and more behind another ball, that is, the penis in front and anus behind, if a girl will see a risk in front and behind a ball, in this case the vulva in front and the anus in the back.
Boy
Girl
Another way of perceiving is the difference that goes from the distance between the sexual organ and the anus, in males, the distance is greater, while in females this distance is smaller, seeming many times until the line is continuous until the anus.
In the same way that males have testicles next to the penis, in females you can also see that in this area there is no hair, they have a small pink area , that would be where the testicles would be if they were male, as they are not just that area so without hair.
Looking now at the images below, can you know who is male and who is female?
Female
Male
The only ways to know if a bunny is male or female is through its sexual organs .
Because a bunny has a double chin does not mean it is female, the double chin is an accumulation of fat that can happen in both males and females, although it is more common in females, defining the sex of a rabbit just by the existence of double chin is not the right.
It is not only the females who pluck their fur when they are pregnant or with psychological pregnancies, many bunnies when they are in stress also pluck their own fur, it is necessary to pay attention to this behavior and if necessary go to the vet to understand what is causing the stress to the bunny and what treatment to do.
