wabbitmom12 wrote:
:clapping: Yay, Nyx! That's my girl, taking good care of her babies.
I think maybe she had too much on her mind, with her herd matron duties and all, to slow down and be motherly. It's good that you had a little talk with her. She needs to set a good example for the other does in the herd, right?
HEY! You're the one who told her to tell me I was stuck in my cage till I fed the little brats? MEANIE!
Ok - so I'm currently working on a reduced herd matron schedule. My day goes like this.
Mom or Robin check my babies in the morning and if they're happy with how fed they are....then I get let out to focus on my herd matron duties on the floor. I stay on the floor with the girls and everyone else till suppertime - or usually later - bedtime - and then I go back to my cage to spend the night with supper of my own (I've already snacked off the herd food)....and I sleep and then feed the babies later and my day starts all over again.
I'm down to six babies...but one was really small when it was born and another one was sorta a "fader" which I tried to explain to mom. These six are all healthy and growing even though one is a bit of a runty.
Mom is happy because it looks like 3 are black and 3 are steel (my last litter was all steel). Also, one of the babies seems to have a really big head....don't ask me why that makes her happy...but oh well.
'Thena as we call her (aka "Princess with a stick up her rear") is out playing right now in a pen mom made for her from the exercise pen. Honestly - she's soooo stupid. She's got this area that is like 4' X 6' and what does she spend time doing? Sitting by the edge and fighting with the herd girls as they go by.... I mean - come on - now that dad has rearranged the rabbitry a bit - she's next to Hermes and Dallas and Austin (the Cali boys with Texas names). She could almost even flirt with Mercury if she pushed her pen just a tiny bit.
But no - she'd rather fight with girls.
Ah....she just binkied. Maybe now she'll leave MY girls alone...
Of course, it might be my fault she's upset...I told her if she was gonna be on the floor with us "commoners" she might as well pull her weight and do some flirting and try to make herself useful.
Then I hopped away - flicking her off the whole distance.
Oh.....Harmony is driving mama up the wall. Those of you who believe in prayer - pray for her and pray for something called "oxytocin" - that God will give it to her naturally or something.
She was due on the 14th so she's on day 33....well...day 34 by now I guess (almost). She's not in any distress but she's not comfortable and she's even got a bigger butt than she had before (even if Robin DID get a picture of her in her nestbox...). She really needs to have those brats of hers soon before MOM goes into distress. I found her wandering in front of her cage going, "Babies or Stewpot"...like her friend Zin taught her. I reminded mom that Harmony never uses enough salt and throws the onions away and won't follow the recipe...and she doesn't load the dishwasher right.
Anyway - I guess that's the update for now.
Oh - Zuba had a fun time earlier tonight. More in 31 days....maybe...
