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Biology and Behavior. Striped skunks mate in February and early March. Females give birth in May, often in woodchuck burrows, to an average litter of six. It is not unusual to see a female skunk with a line of little black and white copies following her across a damp pasture or lawn on an early July morning.
They can produce musk by the time they are 8 days old but cannot spray until they are approximately 3 weeks old. Baby skunks first venture out of the den with their mother when they are 6 to 8 weeks old, and they stay with their mother for about eight months. The father skunk plays no role in raising the kits and sometimes kills them.