French Angora & Californian- Jack Frost

[JakeM]

If they are still alive by the next time you check them (finger crossed!), but they still look underfed, you can flip the doe on her back and attach the baby(ies) to her teats. I've done that with a runt before with a first time mom and that baby is now eight months old and plump.

Good luck to you and your bunnies!

 

[Hens and Roos]

If they are still alive by the next time you check them (finger crossed!), but they still look underfed, you can flip the doe on her back and attach the baby(ies) to her teats. I've done that with a runt before with a first time mom and that baby is now eight months old and plump.

Good luck to you and your bunnies!

We had thought about attempting this, but this kit didn't make it either- the others look well fed.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Took a quick look at the kits this morning- they all look good with fat tummies!

Peanut has 5 kits- the pink one looks to be getting white fur(we'll see if it changes over time) and there looks to be 2 black and 2 blue- that may change as they get bigger.

Cashew now also has 5 kits(the 2 pink skin ones didn't make it) they have pink and black skin which is correct for being either Chestnut or Opal color. I usually keep my check time short with her-her personality can be ever changing

I will try and get some updated pictures!

 

[Hens and Roos]

So I am finally getting a minute to up date with some pictures- these were taken at 1 week old(2-19-2015)

Here is a group picture of Peanut's kits (5 total)

Here is a picture of 1 of Cashew's kits- she has 5 total- 4 like the one in the picture and 1 black

this one is either a Chestnut or an Opal(have to do some more on-line research to try and figure out or just give it time)

oh and I got peed on when holding the one from Cashew's box...

 

[Hens and Roos]

At morning chore time, Peanut had her babies out of the box and laying on the wire- they are 2 weeks tomorrow.

Here is the picture I took:

 

[Hens and Roos]

Last night at chores, I checked Peanut's nest box and only came up with 4 kits...1 of the blue kits was missing- when I put the kits back in the next box yesterday morning, I never checked the box for the 5th kit. So I pulled out the nest box and DH and I counted and re-counted. 1 blue missing no clue what happened...very sad that something might have happened to it, looked around on the floor but nothing.

This morning, I went to feed rabbits first and as I was getting food out, I caught movement on the floor in front of Jack Frost's cage.....it was the missing blue kit- appeared to be a little dusty but fine- so I put it back into the nest box and Peanut actually went back in- hopefully she fed it. Never knew that they could squeeze out of small cage holes! So happy to have found it!

 

[Hens and Roos]

So it took my DS(9) to point out to me how the little kit got out- the cage they are in was set up for quail and had several bigger spots forgot all about that. DH fixed it last night so no more walk-about for them!

2 weeks old and their eyes are open.

This morning Cashew had some of her kits out of the next box, she'll probably have them starting to eat pellets by next week.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Here is a picture of the kits from Cashew's litter:

 

[Hens and Roos]

Picture update

Here is a picture of Peanut's litter:

Here's a picture of Cashew's litter:

 

[Hens and Roos]

Haven't updated in a while- both litters are now 7 weeks old and getting big! Our friend's wether went home so we did some shuffling around and so far put one litter into a bigger area.

This is Peanut's litter- may have 3 girls and 2 boys- have to have DH help me double check.