I don't let my does have over five litters a year. I don't rebreed at the six week mark, but at eight weeks after. It starts getting tight that last week. I do this as I am not just raising meat animals but also doing breed conservation for a rare breed. Pushing the does too hard with 7 litters a year do not help with quality. If I want nice replacement stock, I want the. To stsh either their mom a full eight weeks. Show litters, if I think there are any super quality from a special breeding, I sometimes keep young does with mum even as long as ten weeks, as I feel they then may be better mother. I am not sold on tbst theory, but just in case.....
How high/ low are your cages set? I usually have mine at least four feet off the floor, maybe to three inches below my armpit, and me being 5'6", I can reach to the back of the pens. You might check the height if your pens.
The day I wean them at 56 days, is the day they get butchered and go into the freezer. I weigh all of the kits, check their conformation, and anything not acceptable to me is culled. I have tough criteria in order to get a cage of your own in my rabbitry. Sometimes I keep one or two, sometimes I won't keep any for months. When in full production, I have around ,80 head, so yeah, I am culling heavy if I keep so little. I don't sell pet stock, and I don't sell breeding stock or show stock that I wouldn't be proud to have in my barn.
If deemed worthy to stay in my barn, they get a tattoo in their left ear, and records made out, starting with their ear number, weight at 56 days, Pedigree and other notes.
The dam gets bred the next day.
Did you get a new front on the nestboxes?
Cedar