Gypsy's Rambles, Wanders, Wonders and Blunders

[Baymule]

Make it a new post. People doing a search won't find it in your journal. Title it tanning a hide or something like that. That's how we get new members! @Senile_Texas_Aggie joined because he found my post I HATE GREENBRIARS. That is one of the reasons I am so scattered about on the sites. I make specific posts about specific things. If you want to know about pigs, you look in the pig forum, not sifting through 3,000 pages of a journal. OK, off my soapbox.

 

[GypsyG]

I woke up this morning to more babies!!!

Hosta, my big sweetheart rabbit, had 11 beautiful blue and broken blue kits with no DOAs!!! When she finally decided to pull fur, she pulled LOTS of fur! Two of her kits are the biggest newborn kits I have ever seen and one of them is the tiniest runt I've ever seen, the rest are uniformly in the middle. I'm a little concerned about Hosta. She got SUPER BIG while she was pregnant, but went off her feed and would only nibble on a little hay and fresh grass the last four or five days of her pregnancy. Now that she has had her kits she looks pretty skinny and I can see and feel her backbone a little. It does look like she has been munching on her food this morning. Wendy looked real skinny after she birthed her litter of 13, but she started eating like a hog about 24 hours later and picked it right back up... I hope Hosta does the same thing. She's my baby, and I don't think I have ever nervously anticipated a litter as much as this one! I'm still going to be all nerves until I see her put some weight back on.


Zelda, my old pro, gave me 10 beautiful kits! It looks like her litter is going to be just as colorful as her! Right now it looks like they will ALL be torts, harlequins, and tri-colors... plus dilute on a couple of them! I have never seen a more uniformly sized litter. I can not pick one at either end of the kit size spectrum, it's like she cut them out with a cute baby bunny cookie cutter. Zelda is such a wonderful mama. She requies a nest box about halfway through her pregnancy or she gets very anxious, and as soon as you give it to her she starts slowly building her nest. She pulls tons of hair about a week early and then patiently and calmly waits. If she goes to long without being bred she gets visably depressed. She loves being a mamma. She is such a wonderful doe!

So, with Helena's litter yesterday, and the two this morning, that's 31 kits, no DOAs!!! That's pretty darned impressive for two maiden does and a 4-1/2 year old senior doe!!

I breed three does at a time so I can shuffle around and foster as needed. That didn't work out this time because they ALL have more kits than teats!

They all have had their litters, so I can relax and enjoy the New Year's party tonight! Yay!!!

 

[GypsyG]

Hosta

Zelda

Helena

Happy New Year everyone!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

It's a bunny bonanza!!

 

[GypsyG]

I was so excited about babies that I forgot to mention that I sold Thumper yesterday evening. He is going to live the spoiled life of a pet rabbit.

 

[Baymule]

Congrats on the cuties! Zelda is beautiful!

 

[GypsyG]

Congrats on the cuties! Zelda is beautiful!

She's twice as sweet as she is beautiful too! She is a wonderful doe.

 

[GypsyG]

Hosta lost the runt from her litter this morning, which brings her litter down to ten... even with Zelda and Helena. Hosta started eating like a pig again several hours after birthing her kits. Zelda has one that is becoming a little runty, but I held her and made sure it got some extra titty time this afternoon and I'll do it again tomorrow. Helena's kits are the fattest four day old kits I have ever seen!

Posey has ear mites. She has a litter that won't be ready to wean for another week, and she was rebred three days ago. I did not notice them on breeding day. Her kits don't appear to have them and neither do the rest of the herd, but they are all getting mineral oil tomorrow to make sure. I thought ear mites were normally a summer problem?

Ok... Back to pleasant news. I named the two does I'm reserving from Wendy's litter! The blue one is Bluebell, and the black one is Sweet Pea. Sweet Pea likes to give bunny kisses!

 

[greybeard]

Off topic GypsyG but Ray Sawyer died a couple days ago.
I'm going to go look for a pay phone......

 

[GypsyG]

Off topic GypsyG but Ray Sawyer died a couple days ago.
I'm going to go look for a pay phone......

Dang it! Did he ever get his picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone?