The shortest answer would be: DON’T! Firstly, there are many thousands of unwanted rabbits in rescue centres all around the country, and bringing more into the world when you could be homing rescues could be regarded as immoral. The main reasons, however, are for the health and welfare of your rabbit and your wallet! If your rabbit had a litter, and nobody wanted to give a home to the babies (which can easily happen, no matter how cute they are!), you could have around 12 kits plus the adult(s) to take care of. That’s 13-14 lots of food, bedding, hutches/cages, water bottles, food bowls, hay, straw, annual vaccinations (around £40 per year per bunny), neutering (around £50-£70 per bunny), and pet insurance (£72 per year per bunny)!

If you got your rabbits from a pet shop they could well be brother and sister - an obvious problem for breeding. Don’t forget, the pet shop may just say they are unrelated because they don’t know any better, or they think you won’t buy them unless they are unrelated. Even if you know they are unrelated, breeding from pet shop rabbits is an unknown - even if your rabbits look perfectly healthy, they could be carrying bad genes from their parents/grandparents that you won’t know about until you get a baby rabbit with a deformity or condition.

Breeding rabbits isn’t easy, it isn’t cheap, and you certainly won’t make money… in fact, you’ll lose money!