Baby update

The babies are all doing great! I took a real good look at them all this morning and got some pictures, so I will put them up on the site sometime soon here, Lord willing.

Amber has a seal in her litter, I just realized yesterday. That means that Amber carries shaded :). I already knew Cody did.

Totsie has a chocolate sable, it appears. Very cool! She has a couple lilacs, but I am not totally sure of all the colors of her babies just yet. She does have 2 brkn chocolates and a solid chocolate for sure though :).

I fostered Totsie's biggest baby over to Val yesterday, since she only had 5 and could easily raise 6. So, Totsie just has 7 of her own now. Some of Totsie's babies are small, so I encourage Tots to nurse the babies more this morning, so I think they will all be fine. I had Tots nurse the two tiniest babies separately so they have nice full bellies, like the others now. Lord willing they'll all make it.

The first few days with the babies is always kind of touch-n-go, especially with the big litters. But, taking the biggest babies out of a litter and putting them with a smaller litter helps give the smaller babies a chance. Encouraging the doe to nurse the babies a little bit more than once a day helps sometimes too . . . it gives the babies a jump start and helps increase the doe's milk.

All my does get lots of oats to help with their milk supply the first few days in particular.

~ Qadoshyah

Totsie kindles

Totsie was due today. I went out this morning to check on her . . .I wasn't really expecting any babies, since a lot of my does go over their due date some or have them later in the day.

I had also put tons of hay in Totsie's cage (covering the whole entire cage floor) last night before I went to bed. Tots had made no nest anywhere and had totally messed up the "nest" I had made in her box when I gave it to her. I was expecting babies to be all over the cage if she had them.

But, I came out and thankfully, she had made a beautiful nest in the box and had 8 babies in there!! All nice and healthy babies! Yay, praise the Lord! They are all chocolate colored babies, but I am not totally sure of all the colors yet. There's a few brokens and lots of solids. I think she may have a chocolate sable or two in there, but we'll see.

~ Qadoshyah

More babies

Val kindled to 5 little babies this afternoon/early evening. All are "pink", so I won't know if they are pointed whites or REWs until they are about 2 weeks old. Lord willing there will be some BLUE pointeds in there, that'd be so cool!

I also updated the site tonight. I put some new pictures of Caramel and Heather up on the site also.
And, for fun, here are some pictures of the awesome poppy flower field that is about 5 miles from us :)!


~ Qadoshyah

Spring Bunnies & more

We had 5 new babies born late Friday night (at midnight!). Amber's the mother and she had 3 blues and 2 blacks. So odd that there are not any agoutis (like she is!), but that's the way genetics are sometimes.

Two bunnies went to their new homes today - the black jr. buck and the pointed white jr. buck. We only have 2 juniors available now!

Two bunnies that we sent to OR with Marla a month ago finally made it to WA yesterday!

The weather has been gorgeous here in S. CA for the past few days and the flowers are in full bloom. So, we took the x-pen down to the field below our house, set it up and took pics of a few of the bunnies. Here's pics of two of the buns we took down there - Chocolate & Striper :).

Chocolate ~



Striper ~
My favorite picture of all of them ~


~ Qadoshyah

Baby Pictures

Here's some pictures of the babies:

Sugar's babies -

The little broken blue -

Milky's babies -

Mocha's babies -
~ Qadoshyah

17 babies . . .

Well, Mocha kindled to 4 big & beautiful babies this morning, so that makes our baby count 17 right now :). Mocha has 2 lilacs, 1 black & 1 black agouti - probably chestnut agouti.

Sugar also has two agouti babies - one blue agouti (probably opal) and one lilac agouti (probably lynx).

I gave Val her box this morning and she went to making a nest right away! Totsie is looking very large, I expect a pretty good sized litter from her. I'm thinking Amber will have about 9 babies, we'll see . . . she's due today!

~ Qadoshyah

Babies!

I updated the site today! So, check it out :).

Milky kindled to 9 babies last night, the 8th. She has 3 lilacs (2 solids, 1 brkn), 3 chocolates (2 solids, 1 brkn), and 3 blacks (2 solids, 1 brkn).

Sugar kindled to 4 babies this morning, the 9th. She has 2 lilacs, 1 blue, and 1 brkn lilac. One of the babies is an agouti, but I don't remember if it was one of the lilacs or blues :). I fostered two of Milky's babies to Sugar.

Amber has been making her nest all morning, so I expect her to have the babies sometime today. Of course she has made her nest outside of the box and the weather is very cold, so I am hoping she will for sure have them in the day when I am around, so I can put them in the box right away.

~ Qadoshyah

Updated Sale Page & More

I updated the sale page last night. We have 5 juniors available right now and 1 senior buck. I took pictures of them all and put them all up on the site. The black jr. buck is *on hold* for Nancy and he will hopefully be going to his new home on Sunday, so that puts us down to 4 juniors available.

I have also decided that I am going to sell Alpine's Valorous, my pointed white doe (my foundation doe) after she has her litter and weans it. I am hoping she will have a pointed white doe in the litter that I can replace her with, Lord willing. I'll be selling Val for $75. She is well worth it! She's 2 years old and is pregnant with her 5th litter right now. She can be bred before shes leaves too.

Sugar & Milky are still holding out on me . . . they are one day over their due date, which I expect. I expect they'll have their babies tonight or tomorrow, Lord willing. Amber & Mocha both are due tomorrow. Mocha has made a nice nest in the box, but Amber has decided to make a "nest" outside of the box on the wire. So . . . we'll see how that goes :).

Val will get her nestbox tomorrow, Lord willing and Totsie will get her box a few days after that.

~ Qadoshyah

Juniors, Nesting Does & more

I moved my bred does to the "baby cages" (the big 30"x30" or 36"x30 cages) the other day. Sugar & Milky are due on the 7th, which is Monday, so they got their nestboxes yesterday. They both went to making their nests right away :)! Mocha & Amber will get their boxes tomorrow, Lord willing.

My REW buck, Silence is gone to his new home with Heather now. The ST black steel jr. doe I have will leave on Sunday for her new home with Heather also.

I took some pictures of my juniors the other day. I am very happy with how they are all turning out! They are turning out absolutely beautiful! Here's a few pictures of them:

Bradbury is my youngest junior, being 8 weeks old, but he looks great still.


Rose is my oldest junior. She is starting to go through the uglies pretty bad. Her head is coming in, so it looks kind of funny right now. Her body doesn't look too bad yet. . .


Heather is my next oldest junior. Her head is just awesome! She's in the uglies quite bad right now, but she still has the cutest head.


Fizz is 11 weeks old and she doesn't look too bad yet . . .



And, last but not least, Brantini. He looks awesome still!


I also updated the website today.

Qadoshyah

Ears

I took pictures and looked over all my juniors today (will post those pics tomorrow, Lord willing). They are all looking great. Some of them are starting to go through the uglies though, which is to be expected.

While I had Brantini out I noticed how long his ears are. They are so long, it's crazy. I'm pretty sure he will grow into his ears, since it looks like he'll have one massive head and crown, but he looks kind of awkward right now . . . especially when compared to Fizz, who is the same age (born same day) as him! Fizz's ears are short little things, LOL! Here's a couple pics of my Brant with the monster ears!

Fizz is on the left and Brantini is on the right:


No, I didn't try to get them looking the same direction, they just happened to do it and it was a great shot to see the difference in ear length!


One of Brant by himself:



~ Qadoshyah