HELP WITH KITS!!!!!!!!/Kid progress

[Southern by choice]

oh. See... I know nothing!

 

[Hens and Roos]

oh. See... I know nothing!

but see this is how you learn, you learn even faster if you jump in with both feet

 

[Southern by choice]

but see this is how you learn, you learn even faster if you jump in with both feet

No- that would be my Dh... which drives me carzy!

 

[Bucking Adoeable Fainters]

Help! Fluffy did a big no no and peed on her kits! WHYYYYY?!!! I went to do my nightly check and was so excited to see eyes, and got a handful of wet baby!!!

I towel dried them off (was mainly backsides and underside) and got all of the wet hay and hair out of there. Put down new hay, and the salvaged hair and covered the kits back up. They actually were quite inquisitive and did a couple small hops for me.

Anything else i can do? Would she have done this to cover their scent, as i suspected they were males? Or just a newbie dummy? There was NO other wetness anywhere or pellets for that matter. Exactly on the kits/nest.

The only stinker is the nest area is actually a wood bottom and not wire =/ so i couldn't exactly get it DRY.

 

[Bucking Adoeable Fainters]

So cute. Eyes and ears!!!

 

[SA Farm]

Sounds like a newbie mom mistake to me. Most does won't go to the bathroom on their kits and I doubt gender has anything to do with it. It may be your scent she's trying to cover or if someone else has been handling them? Just a thought...
They're growing so nicely! I can't wait for more kits over here!

 

[mysunwolf]

Not a newbie mom mistake, I have a doe that consistently pees on her kits if I have other rabbits near her, especially the buck. She hates other rabbits around her babies and is trying to cover their scent. Though it makes for a very smelly nest box. However, with the pee I don't worry about sanitation too much; when there's poo is the only time I clean out the box (or the kits).

 

[Bucking Adoeable Fainters]

Eek sorry didn't see the photos loaded up side down =/

Thank you so very much @SA Farm! You completely went with what my husband said...then i quickly reminded him that it couldn't have been me, I handle them everyday and wash hands before and after, but HE in fact handled them for the first time! Apparently Fluffy did not like daddy handling her precious cargo. Lesson learned and moving on!

 

[Bucking Adoeable Fainters]

Oh!!!! @mysunwolf that makes perfect sense!!!!!! I just brought Dulce' because it is going to rain. The urine was fresh, and i had just brought Dulce' in not a half hour ago! Thank you for the insight. Anything i can do to remedy? Other than leaving Dulce' outside in her house? (I will add this does seem odd, since the girls used to live together and have been housed with or next to each other their entire lives. But believeable considering Dulce' hasn't been inside much since kits have been born)

Also, do you dry the kits? I'm not a fan of them being wet! Especially when their eyes are trying to open.

 

[SA Farm]

I would gently wash and dry them, personally. I'm not a fan of pee-soaked kits