Newborn Jersey Woolies! Pics!

woodleighcreek

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Late last night or early this morning my doe kindled! :weee
She had 4 live babies and one stillborn runt , which is GREAT for her first time! I thought they were all going to be dead/or she would only have 2. She built a great nest with lots of fluff. Here are the babies. It was hard to get a good picture. When I was taking the first one, there were 3 kits, but one just waddled away. :rolleyes: What colours do yall think they are?

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Congrats on your little fuzzballs-to-be!

Woolies employ the dwarfing gene to achieve showable size, so your "runt" was probably what is known as a peanut. Peanuts (rabbits that inherit the dwarfing gene from both parents) always die within a few days of birth; at least you were spared watching it fade while you tried to save it.

And oh, yeah - all of the kits look black to me.
 

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it wasnt a peanut, It had the same proportions as the others, just smaller. It looked like it wasnt fully developed. My doe separated it from the rest, so it took a bit of digging to find it.

I was thinking that the last two are possibly torts or broken because there skin seems to be in splotches of light and dark.
 

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Congrats on the Jersey woolies! They look lovley :love .I am hoping to get a pair of Jersey woolies this year. I used to have one when I was younger and I just loved the breed.
 
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