Violet kindles April 23, 2012

 Volet

and Shade

had six kits.

All are nicely sized.

Looks better than her first litter.

Violet will be for sale after she weans this litter.

Blossom Kindles - April 14, 2012

Well did Blossom ever give me a shocker this morning.

I knew she was expecting, I expected her normal six kits.

She gave me 11 kits!  ELEVEN!!   one was DOA, but she has ten BIG kits in the nestbox.

Very well done girlie!   She got a nice lettuce leaf this morning to and was totally ravenous. :)

 Blossom

Shade

Blue Lagoon - kindles April 13, 2012

 blue lagoon

Shade

Seven kits.

Good nest.

Good momma thus far.

Nail Trims and What Not

So yesterday I trimmed the nails of all the adult bunnies.   I do this every 4-6 weeks.   I find it interesting how some rabbits nails grow so very very fast, and others it seems like they don't need to be clipped.  Makes me curious as to what makes the difference.

I train my babies from the time they are young that they sit for three feet to be done, and then I sit them on their bums for the last one.   Training them takes the angst out of the nail trims for them.   I started doing this after I purchased a variety of buns who would TOTALLY freak out when I would trim their nails and thought to myself.. I don't want other people thinking I've got nutty rabbits or that I never do nail trims so let's get them used to this idea.   I HATE stressing rabbits out unnecessarily and nail trim stress is unnecessary in my opinion.

For some reason this time Vivian took extreme exception to me trimming her nails and I'm not sure why.... it was like she was some stranger rabbit.  Usually Vive lets me do anything I want.  She's a very goofy rabbit.  So it rather surprised me.   We both survived the experience with no damage.   Perhaps it was because I used different clippers this time and she is a sensitive to noise rabbit.    Silly beastie.  :)

Everyone else was a trooper.   

I managed to get German outside on the grass yesterday without him being this total nervous Nellie.   he was such a good boy and so thoroughly enjoyed himself.  Very nice to see this in him.      Even German did well with nail trims...he's an easily stressed rabbit and all he did was moan at me.   Must have been a relaxing day on the lawn for him.  :)

Shade certainly seemed to like being outside too.  :)   I may put them both outside again today...might was well reward good solid behaviour right?     Though it was funny.. normally when I put the rabbits out the girls will dig holes and the boys will just thump and look around and munch on grass.   I put Shade out and he immediately started to dig a hole and it's like "HEY SHADE! girls dig boys don't!"   Made my six year old son giggle at him.  :)

Blossom's boys

JD is interested in these boys so posting some outside pics of them for her perusal.

they are for the most part identical.  All weigh around the same amount.
Dad is blue, mom is an off chocolate/lilac doe.

Blossoms Jan 2012 kits

 young male, pet home sale

 doe, breeder home sale

 keeping doe

breeder home doe

Violet - kindles Feb 16, 2012

I thought this girlie was due a couple days ago and was thinking she missed and therefore was wanting to get her bred again, but tonight she gave me seven wee babies.   At first glance all look dark.   Time will tell for sure.   She's a first time mom.  She had her babies without over-cleaning them, but didn't really pull fur.   So I gave them some of my spare fur.   Should all be good by morning I think.

 Dad is Shade

Mom is Violet

Blossom - kindles, January 27, 2012

Blossom gave me seven kits this morning.

She made a lovely nest and the babies are big and they are warm.

nice to see that she did a good job.

dad is Shade.

Breed is Harlequin.

Shar - Kindles, January 21, 2012

eight kits born to Shar, She's a harlequin doe.  I was wondering if something wasn't quite right with her kindling as it was taking a fair bit of time.   When I checked after breakfast she'd had eight kits, one was born DOA (it was a larger than average kit).

Some of the kits look to be well marked.  hopefully this litter will do better than her first litter.

Dad is Shade.

Biscuit - November 27, 2011 litter pics

the girls

the boys

Shar - December 15, 2011

five kits

Shar is dad.

all magpies as was expected. :) one kit is a fair bit smaller.

Shar is being a good first time mom, needed some encouragement to pull sufficient fur to keep the kits warm though.

Biscuit - Kindles November 27, 2011

13 kits for miss biscuit today.

Shade is a first time daddy! :)

at this point they seem a variety of shadings, but they are brand new so hard to tell for sure.

Two are quite small.