With her first litter - Miss Bea built her nest about 10 times in the three days before she was due.
With her second litter - she started building the day she gave birth....about four or five hours ahead of time. She remade the nest a second time.
With her third litter - she glared at me about 10 minutes before she started giving birth and started frantically building her nest with the hay she'd had for a couple of days....and just stared at and tried to kick out of her cage. She made her nest in about 8 minutes and then had her babies and glared at me when she was done....as if it was MY fault she didn't get her nest made.
Sheesh!
Does....
By the way - here is the comment I was thinking of from the lionhead list back in May of 2006.
Yes, some mothers does are VERY sharing. Many of mine give their babies their toys ... maybe it's just them thinking they're 'adding' to the nest? I've tried taking the toys out... but they always end up back in the box. My tiny 2 pound Cumulus once even managed to get her LITTERBOX up on top of the nestbox too. Still not sure how she managed to lift it up there ... litter and all, but she did. Watch them if you give them rings or toilet paper tubes, anything that they may get stuck in or anything they could get sick from injesting.One was stuck in a shower curtain ring once and then once one got stuck in a toilet paper tube.
It's pretty funny to watch.
