What age can dwarf lop rabbits live to?
The lifespan depends on the health and husbandry. Between 8 & 14 weeks of age your rabbits can have a high risk of getting mucoid enteritis through stress, change in environment and temperature, change in diet, bad diet and over handling. It is therefore important that you lower the risk by good husbandry Rabbits can suffer from defects even if from a breeder (throw backs) the most common in lop eared rabbits is malocclusion of the teeth. If your rabbit gets a teeth/root defect this can shorten the rabbits lifespan. An average for that would be 4 years. Also if in the uk myxomatosis is a disease which is highly contagious through insect transferring the disease to the rabbit. It is therefore important that you get your rabbit vaccinated in the uk against this disease and the highly contagious killer throughout the uk and parts or europe- vhd.
