Nest made...but not due yet...

So my Little Miss decided last night to build this lovely, lovely nest.

She's not due until December 23...she was supposed to give me Christmas babies....
So not sure what's up with the nest. Hope she didn't miscarry or reabsorb or have something odd happening. I hope I didn't mix up dates but mentally in my head I know I have those dates right. So not sure what's up. She missed last time I bred her as well.

Annie - pups - December 11, 2008

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three pups born to guinea pig Annie.

white and tan. named rainbow
tan. named clarabelle
brown/tan/black mix - two white feet. named scurry the binnie pig

Have no thought on genders yet. The tan is very easy to catch, but is quick to explore. The white and tan is the smallest. The mix colour one seems most like mom at this point.

Justin thought he should name them.

Ruby - December 9, 2008

Ruby Kindled during the morning chores. 6 babies. one dark, one broken, the rest light.

Didn't pull very much fur so added some from summer litters.

This will be her last litter probably...will have to see. She pours a lot of herself into her kits. If she loses as much condition as she did last time, not sure that I want to wait minimum four months to rebreed her. She's not a big eater so it takes a long time for her to regain lost weight.

Lop-Hop the dad.

Carmen's own

Five chestnut, three large, two small

Two Chinchilla, one large, one small

one good size black

two large white, one small

lela's babies

November 27 pictures.
no genders given at this time, suspect three boys and five girls..but at this age, subject to change without notice. and no...can't remember who I think might be what.

broken chestnut agouti

broken chestnut agouti

Chestnut agouti

black

broken black

broken blue

broken blue

Blue

Midnight - November 27, 2008

Midnight has kindled. Red is the dad. This will be her last litter.

This doe has been making and destroying nests for the past two weeks. Silly rabbit.

She usually comes in early, but this time she went a day longer. I was really starting to wonder what was up with her. She's had difficulty with this litter. One DOA, one on the wire, and six shivering in a pile. Normally she kindles eight nice sized babies with all babies nice and warm in a nest.

After warming the one on the wire in my arm pit, I stuck them all in with Carmen's litter to warm up. Carmen has 11 babies and that nest is VERY warm. 1/2 an hour later I had squeaking babies so I put them in the nest Midnight has built but hadn't actually used.

Will be keeping a close eye on her as there was more blood than normal in the nesting area.

Three black and four harlequin coloured.

In the middle of the afternoon we have seven warm babies with full tummies so, at the time of this writing, so far so good. :) Lost one at weaning.

Rescued rabbits

So...rescued a whack of rabbits over the past couple of weeks.

26 the first visit. Meat rabbits, dutchie cross, dwarf (ND/polish cross), holland lops.
11 this visit. Meat rabbits, dutchie baby, black ???, and rex.

5 worth keeping out of the first batch. Had to take one back as I'd been given the wrong one. Figures it had to be the one that my buggy really, really liked.
2 perhaps in this batch.

Bugs me when folks can't take care of their critters well.
If you can't house them properly... don't have them! Just makes me angry it does!