The average gestation period for rabbits is 31 days; however, it can vary from 29 to 35 days. Does should be pregnancy-checked 14 days after mating. If not pregnant, they can be re-bred immediately.
Buttresses and an arch of the Roselend Dam in France. A buttress dam or hollow dam is a dam with a solid, water-tight upstream side that is supported at intervals on the downstream side by a series of buttresses or supports.The dam wall may be straight or curved. Most buttress dams are made of reinforced concrete and are heavy, pushing the dam into the ground.ater pushes against the dam, but the buttresses are inflexible and prevent the dam from falling over. Buttress or hollow gravity dams were originally built to retain water for irrigation or mining in areas of scarce or expensive resources but cheap labour.
A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall. Buttresses are fairly common on more ancient buildings, as a means of providing support to act against the lateral (sideways) forces arising out of the roof structures that lack adequate bracing. The term counterfort can be synonymous with buttress, and is often used when referring to dams, retaining walls and other structures holding back earth.