TinysMom
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A place for folks to talk about their January litters.....and of course....share pictures.
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January litters
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GoinBackToCali
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I am expecting 5 litters, for sure 3...
Keeping fingers crossed we have baby Cali's for our April show!
Zin
Keeping fingers crossed we have baby Cali's for our April show!
Zin
Rabbidashery
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I am *hopefully* (yeah, right!) expecting 3 litters of sable points (or carriers), 1 litter of reds, 1 litter of VC's, (vienna carriers), 1 litter of black & broken black, and 1 litter of blue/black/brokens. All of which are Mini Rex, and 1 litter of English Angoras.
I'm already getting started on breedings for February, as my does don't usually take during the winter, so I always over breed and then basically, out of 7-8 breedings I'll be lucky if I get 2-3 litters. My 2 breeding cycles I bred 5 does and none of them took, so it's like out of 10 litters I got a big fat zero. LOL! So right now I've got 8 expecting does for Jan. and 2 more for Feb. so far. And this wknd I'll be doing a rebreeding of those so that I have a back up due date in case they didn't take the first time. And this wknd I'll also be breeding for Dwarf Hotots.
I'm already getting started on breedings for February, as my does don't usually take during the winter, so I always over breed and then basically, out of 7-8 breedings I'll be lucky if I get 2-3 litters. My 2 breeding cycles I bred 5 does and none of them took, so it's like out of 10 litters I got a big fat zero. LOL! So right now I've got 8 expecting does for Jan. and 2 more for Feb. so far. And this wknd I'll be doing a rebreeding of those so that I have a back up due date in case they didn't take the first time. And this wknd I'll also be breeding for Dwarf Hotots.
RAL Rabbitry
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I have 6 does due on January 25th. Otter, broken blacks, sable points,
tort and castor. They have been palpated and I believe they all took.
Roger
tort and castor. They have been palpated and I believe they all took.
Roger
JAK Rabbitry
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I have 3 litters of French Lops due the 19th and 20th.
Street Sense is a broken steel bred to a chin
Darko is a black bred to a broken chestnut and
Elvira is a broken chestnut out of the above broken ches bred to the same chin
Sen and Elvira will be first time moms. Darko was a pretty good first time mom her last litter, she had 8 but 4 dropped like flies the first few days. I was left with 4 steels and 2 of them died a day within each other at complete random when they were 3 months old. I sold one steel doe and I ended up keeping theo ther and she is sooooo sexy. So I can't wait for this litter.
The End.
Street Sense is a broken steel bred to a chin
Darko is a black bred to a broken chestnut and
Elvira is a broken chestnut out of the above broken ches bred to the same chin
Sen and Elvira will be first time moms. Darko was a pretty good first time mom her last litter, she had 8 but 4 dropped like flies the first few days. I was left with 4 steels and 2 of them died a day within each other at complete random when they were 3 months old. I sold one steel doe and I ended up keeping theo ther and she is sooooo sexy. So I can't wait for this litter.
The End.
SkyScraper
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I have one litter of Mini Rex due. Hoping all goes well for the first time mom Kiwi.
Bo B Bunny
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I am SO waiting on all these little mini-rex babies! I can't wait!!!
CorkysMom
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2 here...I have 2 torts in one nestbox that are a lil over 2 weeks old and 2 sable points in the other nestbox, about a week and a half.
The girls aren't much in the mood right now..even w/ all the extra lighting.
One of the sable point babies is gonna be massive I think tho..just like his dad! :bunnydance:
The girls aren't much in the mood right now..even w/ all the extra lighting.
One of the sable point babies is gonna be massive I think tho..just like his dad! :bunnydance:
Starlight Rabbitry
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My wooly doe was due yesterday and ended up having a stuck kit. Luckily she is fine and there was only one in her. Took me 30 minutes to remove it from her. I think she was tired of pushing. Poor baby was breached. Right now she is sitting in the nestbox looking for her baby. I feel bad just removing the box so I will let her have it for a day. I guess I will have to try again after she rests for a month. This was her first litter.
Sharon
Sharon
CorkysMom
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Aww, poor thing...its so heartbreaking when they are obviously so sad and don't quite understand. I'm glad mom is ok after all that!
LadyBug
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Poor mom and baby! what are you naming the baby?
Starlight Rabbitry
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The baby was still-born as stuck kits usually die before they are fully kindled. I just called it "poor little baby". I was more concerned about my doe as I wanted to make sure she didn't hemorrage as I was pulling it out. When I found her the baby was already dead.
She is doing great and after she has some relaxation, I will breed her back again.
Sharon
She is doing great and after she has some relaxation, I will breed her back again.
Sharon
JAK Rabbitry
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I'm hoping for my Frenchie litter tomorrow.
I usually bring my bunnies inside during cold weather to kindle, so if they don't make it to the nest box it's nto that big of a deal. My rabbitry ish eated but not warm enough for a naked baby.
thing is I only have 2 cages in my living room available for the moms to be, and I have 3 lops due. the temperature is supposed to drop extremely low within the next few days, into teh single digits. So I worry about putting the babies back outside before htey hae neough of a coat to keep them warm enough in the nest.
I have one dur on teh 19th and 2 onthe 20th. I'm hoping everyone will be on schedule and maybe if I have some smaller litters, after a few days I can even tehm out into 2 litters but I don't wan tto traumatize anyone. We'll see how it goes I suppose.
-JAK
I usually bring my bunnies inside during cold weather to kindle, so if they don't make it to the nest box it's nto that big of a deal. My rabbitry ish eated but not warm enough for a naked baby.
thing is I only have 2 cages in my living room available for the moms to be, and I have 3 lops due. the temperature is supposed to drop extremely low within the next few days, into teh single digits. So I worry about putting the babies back outside before htey hae neough of a coat to keep them warm enough in the nest.
I have one dur on teh 19th and 2 onthe 20th. I'm hoping everyone will be on schedule and maybe if I have some smaller litters, after a few days I can even tehm out into 2 litters but I don't wan tto traumatize anyone. We'll see how it goes I suppose.
-JAK
JAK Rabbitry
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Holy mother of......
My French Lop Elvira....story..
Last Christmas I sold 3 Frenchies to a guy in Pitt. He loved them dearly and took great care of them and we kept in touch and he told me he had to take a second job and felt bad he didn't have tiem for these 3 frenchies anymoreso I said I'd take them back since I could always use another doe.
He had kept them all inteh same cage and it would have been fine for one Frenchie....but not 3. So I think it really stunted the growth of the female but that's the only guess I would have to explain her small size. She should have been fully ma ture by the time I got her back.
She basically looked like a severely overweight mini lop, I weighed her at a little over 9 pounds I think is what it was.
I trie dforever to put weight on her and she ate like crazy but wasn't getting much bigger, so I bred her to a smaller buck.
My god-daughter's 1st birthday was today so I brought Elvira inside and went to the party for 4 hours and came home. I come into my living room and right off I coudl see 2 dark colored babies in the furball. I opened the cage door and pulled out the nest and pulled off some fur and about swallowed my stomach.
13 freakin babies.
THIRTEEN!?
And she's a first time mom. Had them all inteh box. Covered them all up, cleaned everyone ,and they all look fed. And she was resting inthe corner when I came in. She apparently didn't have any troubles. I'm proud of her!
My French Lop Elvira....story..
Last Christmas I sold 3 Frenchies to a guy in Pitt. He loved them dearly and took great care of them and we kept in touch and he told me he had to take a second job and felt bad he didn't have tiem for these 3 frenchies anymoreso I said I'd take them back since I could always use another doe.
He had kept them all inteh same cage and it would have been fine for one Frenchie....but not 3. So I think it really stunted the growth of the female but that's the only guess I would have to explain her small size. She should have been fully ma ture by the time I got her back.
She basically looked like a severely overweight mini lop, I weighed her at a little over 9 pounds I think is what it was.
I trie dforever to put weight on her and she ate like crazy but wasn't getting much bigger, so I bred her to a smaller buck.
My god-daughter's 1st birthday was today so I brought Elvira inside and went to the party for 4 hours and came home. I come into my living room and right off I coudl see 2 dark colored babies in the furball. I opened the cage door and pulled out the nest and pulled off some fur and about swallowed my stomach.
13 freakin babies.
THIRTEEN!?
And she's a first time mom. Had them all inteh box. Covered them all up, cleaned everyone ,and they all look fed. And she was resting inthe corner when I came in. She apparently didn't have any troubles. I'm proud of her!
BlueGiants
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13 ?!?!?!?!?!?! Sweet Mother of .... nevermind... Well, she should be nominated for mother of the year! Good for her. And good for you. It'll be something if she can raise them all. You have anyone to foster too, just in case?
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JAK Rabbitry
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I had another mother give birth earlier today but she lost her whole litter. I wouldn't trust her to take care of another's babies, but I may try to find a way to bring her inside just for her milk production, that alone is goign to be rough on Elvira. But she did good as of today, I put her down on a towel with some munchies and I took out the 7 brokens and let them nurse, then I put them back and let the 6 solids nurse.
ta-da.
PS - while she was nursing she also started pulling out ev en more fur for them. She just hasn't stopped yet. Geez Ellie take a break already!
ta-da.
PS - while she was nursing she also started pulling out ev en more fur for them. She just hasn't stopped yet. Geez Ellie take a break already!
maherwoman
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OH HOLY BUCKETS!!! THATSALOTTA BABIES!!
GOOD GIRL, ELVIRA!!!!
Wow...I can't even begin to imagine...you're gonna have to show me pictures...hehe!!
GOOD GIRL, ELVIRA!!!!
Wow...I can't even begin to imagine...you're gonna have to show me pictures...hehe!!
JAK Rabbitry
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I know! i so wanted to take pictures ofthe litter and just make everyone count but I lent my camera to my friend MElissa so she can take pictures of my prego mare's boyfriend over the weekend for you picture fanatics!
TinysMom
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BlueGiants wrote:
That's great - my largest litter has been 9 (with Sundae) - and I've had a couple of litters of 8 and 7.
When I had issues with my feed in December of '05 and had done a number of breedings ~ Matilda kept 24 babies alive for 3 days while I waited for more does to give birth....the does that had babies were having stillborns also and their milk wasn't coming in - learned later on that other breeders had the same issue with the same brand of feed.
But that isn't the same as having 13 babies in a litter...wow. Awesome!
Peg
That's great - my largest litter has been 9 (with Sundae) - and I've had a couple of litters of 8 and 7.
When I had issues with my feed in December of '05 and had done a number of breedings ~ Matilda kept 24 babies alive for 3 days while I waited for more does to give birth....the does that had babies were having stillborns also and their milk wasn't coming in - learned later on that other breeders had the same issue with the same brand of feed.
But that isn't the same as having 13 babies in a litter...wow. Awesome!
Peg
JAK Rabbitry
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On th guiness official website...
[align=center][font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"]Largest Rabbit Litter[/font]
[font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"]Two New Zealand rabbits
have given birth to 24 kits,
the largest litter.
The first,
belonging to
J. Filek of Cape Breton,
Nova Scotia, Canada,
gave birth in 1978.
Cypriot Dimitri Andreov
Hadjiprodromouâs pet
had the same number
in May, 1999.[/font][/align]
[align=center][font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"]Largest Rabbit Litter[/font]
[font="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"]Two New Zealand rabbits
have given birth to 24 kits,
the largest litter.
The first,
belonging to
J. Filek of Cape Breton,
Nova Scotia, Canada,
gave birth in 1978.
Cypriot Dimitri Andreov
Hadjiprodromouâs pet
had the same number
in May, 1999.[/font][/align]
