Unusual Rabbit!

[Underdog 2,337]

It was my first real test of a heat treated frizzen on this gun and it passed the test but as per most production reproduction pieces the frizzen spring is to heavy!

I also recently bought some tiny glass jars with cork stoppers for pre measured measures of shot and powder. Worked well too.

Any way I got some rabbit between the showers in the grand time that is September.

 

 

What was strange today was what fell out of my first rabbit as I gutted it!

Two pebble like masses fell out!

 

 

Intrigued by it I cut one open!

To my amazement they contained two dead and well preserved unborn infants! In their own sacks and completely unattached to any other organ! I have never seen this before in over 35years of rabbit hunting!

 

Never a dull moment in the woods.

Yours truly.

[Fellman Mark 604]

Nice shooting and nice gun

[Underdog 2,337]

Oops, I am in the wrong department!

Can admin move me please?

 

U

[Underdog 2,337]

Thank you.

 

U.

[Guest Navek]

It was my first real test of a heat treated frizzen on this gun and it passed the test but as per most production reproduction pieces the frizzen spring is to heavy!

I also recently bought some tiny glass jars with cork stoppers for pre measured measures of shot and powder. Worked well too.

Any way I got some rabbit between the showers in the grand time that is September.

What was strange today was what fell out of my first rabbit as I gutted it!

Two pebble like masses fell out!

Intrigued by it I cut one open!

To my amazement they contained two dead and well preserved unborn infants! In their own sacks and completely unattached to any other organ! I have never seen this before in over 35years of rabbit hunting!

Never a dull moment in the woods.

Yours truly.

rabbits can self abort there young when shortage of food etc etc

[Underdog 2,337]

 

It was my first real test of a heat treated frizzen on this gun and it passed the test but as per most production reproduction pieces the frizzen spring is to heavy!

I also recently bought some tiny glass jars with cork stoppers for pre measured measures of shot and powder. Worked well too.

Any way I got some rabbit between the showers in the grand time that is September.

What was strange today was what fell out of my first rabbit as I gutted it!

Two pebble like masses fell out!

Intrigued by it I cut one open!

To my amazement they contained two dead and well preserved unborn infants! In their own sacks and completely unattached to any other organ! I have never seen this before in over 35years of rabbit hunting!

Never a dull moment in the woods.

Yours truly.

rabbits can self abort there young when shortage of food etc etc

Sure but these were inside the rabbits abdomen freely moving around attached to nothing!

[Guest Navek]

 

 

It was my first real test of a heat treated frizzen on this gun and it passed the test but as per most production reproduction pieces the frizzen spring is to heavy!

I also recently bought some tiny glass jars with cork stoppers for pre measured measures of shot and powder. Worked well too.

Any way I got some rabbit between the showers in the grand time that is September.

What was strange today was what fell out of my first rabbit as I gutted it!

Two pebble like masses fell out![/url

Intrigued by it I cut one open!

To my amazement they contained two dead and well preserved unborn infants! In their own sacks and completely unattached to any other organ! I have never seen this before in over 35years of rabbit hunting!

Never a dull moment in the woods.

Yours truly.

rabbits can self abort there young when shortage of food etc etc

Sure but these were inside the rabbits abdomen freely moving around attached to nothing!

O right yea bit weird that one

[Underdog 2,337]

Found this, seems quite common!

 

https://www.backyardherds.com/threads/rabbit-with-kits-dead-inside.2285/

[comanche 2,799]

I've come across a few calcified rabbit foetuses and always assumed they are similar to the petrified babies that are found in some unfortunate women.

In these cases a baby has for some reason died in the woman's body,sometimes having developed outside the womb, and has failed to be expelled. This can lead to dangerous infections but sometimes the mother's defence mechanisms isolate the foreign body by encapsulating it in calcium.

As doe rabbits often self-absorb unborn young up three-quarters of the way through gestation rather than abort by early expulsion the mechanics might not be quite the same as in humans.

However I presume that a doe can only successfully re-absorb foetuses that are still alive or at least in a reasonable condition and connected by healthy placenta to the mother's tissues.

A dead baby with a degraded connection to the mother's system might not be absorbed and hence become mummified.

Only my theory !

Edited September 11, 2017 by comanche

[Underdog 2,337]

I've come across a few calcified rabbit foetuses and always assumed they are similar to the petrified babies that are found in some unfortunate women.

In these cases a baby has for some reason died in the woman's body,sometimes having developed outside the womb, and has failed to be expelled. This can lead to dangerous infections but sometimes the mother's defence mechanisms isolate the foreign body by encapsulating it in calcium.

As doe rabbits often self-absorb unborn young up three-quarters of the way through gestation rather than abort by early expulsion the mechanics might not be quite the same as in humans.

However I presume that a doe can only successfully re-absorb foetuses that are still alive or at least in a reasonable condition and connected by healthy placenta to the mother's tissues.

A dead baby with a degraded connection to the mother's system might not be absorbed and hence become mummified.

Only my theory !

Rings true from what I have read so far. Thanks.

 

U.

Edited September 11, 2017 by Underdog

[The one 8,395]

Aye had a few when gutting them found these lumps once cut one open and its a calcified kit thats going to be reabsorbed always thought it was after they had mated and the weather had turned hard frost up here again

[Underdog 2,337]

Aye had a few when gutting them found these lumps once cut one open and its a calcified kit thats going to be reabsorbed always thought it was after they had mated and the weather had turned hard frost up here again

Cheers, so it's quite normal then.

Learn something every day......

 

U.

[The one 8,395]

Wouldn't say it's normal my understanding is that if a doe rabbit is pregnant and hits hard times she reabsorbs her young so she can survive and start reproducing when times are better

[just-A-snap 1,269]

Normal for the natural way of things, just that you was not in the correct place and time to see it. Happens with and all life on Earth

In just my opinion.

All you own re predication Fire Arms Underdog? Well done

All the very best

Edited September 15, 2017 by just-A-snap

[Underdog 2,337]

Normal for the natural way of things, just that you was not in the correct place and time to see it. Happens with and all life on Earth

 

In just my opinion.

 

All you own re predication Fire Arms Underdog? Well done

 

All the very best

I only have reproduction muzzleloaders yes.

 

U.