MtViking- A little piece of paradise.

[B&B Happy goats]

I can’t get her to build a nest in the box. She takes all the hay out and builds it on the cage floor. The babies won’t have a chance if she doesn’t figure this out.

Try a cardboard box inside her area that she can build a nest in, I had one rabbit that did as yours is doing and the cardboard box made her content to build her nest in ....rabbits can be quite contrary critters.

 

[Bruce]

Sounds reasonable, entire cage area is one big cardboard box, she would have no choice to build on the cardboard floor. Looks like you are going to have to watch carefully for when the kits are born and make sure she is caring for them properly.

 

[Baymule]

We are on baby watch!

 

[B&B Happy goats]

We are too here...more like the waiting game, nests are made, little fur pulled....waiting...

 

[MtViking]

Well she had the kits while I was at work. I counted 7. 6 were still alive not in the nest box. I moved them to a nest box with moms fur. I don’t know if that was the right thing to do but no way they were going to survive on the cage even with straw down. I didn’t see the cardboard box comment until just now. That would’ve been a good idea. Hopefully I don’t lose any more, and I hope moving them didn’t get them too cold. I’m Worried now.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Well she had the kits while I was at work. I counted 7. 6 were still alive not in the nest box. I moved them to a nest box with moms fur. I don’t know if that was the right thing to do but no way they were going to survive on the cage even with straw down. I didn’t see the cardboard box comment until just now. That would’ve been a good idea. Hopefully I don’t lose any more, and I hope moving them didn’t get them too cold. I’m Worried now.

She will do better next time.....you can still put the cardboard box in there also in case they get out of the area you put them in. Hang in there, we all go through our learning curves, even rabbits go through it

 

[Baymule]

I hope she takes up with her kits and that they all survive.

 

[MtViking]

She will do better next time.....you can still put the cardboard box in there also in case they get out of the area you put them in. Hang in there, we all go through our learning curves, even rabbits go through it

You think she will feed them since I put them in the nesting box?

 

[MtViking]

I know I’m raising them for meat. But it’s kind of heartbreaking losing my first kit. I hope the rest make it.

 

[Baymule]

Sure, she will. This business of "don't touch the babies or she will abandon/kill/eat them" is a bunch of hooey. She is a new momma, so expect a certain amount of stupid. Give her the benefit of the doubt.

Just because you are going to send them to freezer camp doesn't mean that you don't care. Of course you are bummed out that one died. Of course you are concerned and want the rest to live. And someday, you will slaughter them and eat them. And that will bother you. I say a prayer over animals before I slaughter them and I apologize to every single one of them. Just because I eat them doesn't mean that I don't love them.