Update on my babies with cecal dysbosis..

[GoinBackToCali]

So 8 made it... with no mommy except for me and my son, they are definitely smaller than the other litters born on the same day. They are completely docile and loving, and will make great pets.

So I think getting up every 3 hours round the clock for a week was soooo worth it.

I am issuing a warning here... they ain't pretty. They don't have a mommy to groom them, and I aint using my tongue to groom em,

Actually my son and I have groomed them, using the commercially prepared cleanser from bunnyrabbit.com. dried and combed them, got them all pretty and fluffy and white.. the next day.. they look like this again. They actually look worse than they really are. As in they look sickly, but in reality, they are just nappy. When you pick one up, they got some weight to em. They press there lil faces to the cage sides, and give me bunny nibbles if I put my lips up to the cage.

Like I said, they ain't pretty, but they are alive and healthy, and we are very stoked about that.

A neighbor has expressed interest in having a few for his grandkids.. they would be kept on premises (as opposed to the barn in the pasture down the road) and would actually have a dang good life. I respect this person alot, and his wife is such a doll with animals..

 

[ra7751]

They look all pretty to me. You did a great job getting these guys thru. Baby rabbits andfawns are about the most delicate newborns I deal with. You are always on edge until that gut converts and stabilizes. Send more pics.

And to the babies....Live long and prosper.

Randy

 

[polly]

Awww They look great Zin well done

 

[Jenson]

Aww, great job! They look lovely.

 

[MsBinky]

Awww what cuties! :inlove: Are they ok now?

 

[TreasuredFriend]

Just catching this now... they look gorgeous!! Lucky youngens.

Let a human's love surround you always. ~~ thanks for the updated photos, Zin.

 

[Bo B Bunny]

I know you don't want little dirty faces but they are really cute with them! LOL! They look like little kids that got into the chocolate and have it smeared across their faces.....

I'm so glad some of them made it!

 

[maherwoman]

Bo B Bunny wrote:

I know you don't want little dirty faces but they are really cute with them! LOL! They look like little kids that got into the chocolate and have it smeared across their faces.....

I'm so glad some of them made it!

I was thinking the same thing about the chocolate...or maybe mud pies, hehe!

They look really good, though, Zin. Looks like all that hard work (and serious lack of sleep) paid off!

:thumbup

 

[jil101ca]

I hand raised a litter last year after the mom died at 6 days old. They were very grubby looking and you could tell they were orphanes. They were small,only half the size of kits the same age. I kept a black otter doe we had named The bat (she had huge ears and a face like a bat when she was a kit) She is my biggest and best looking girl at 11 lbs.

 

[GoinBackToCali]

Wow.. some of mine are growing rapidly, a few arn't but I have had an outpouring of people interested in adopting them, almost all older people with no kids. They have come by to look at them, and love that they come right up to you and wanna sit with you and be close to you.

That is encouraging that yours caught up.. all of mine are definitely smaller than the litters born at the same time..


jil101ca wrote:

I hand raised a litter last year after the mom died at 6 days old. They were very grubby looking and you could tell they were orphanes. They were small,only half the size of kits the same age. I kept a black otter doe we had named The bat (she had huge ears and a face like a bat when she was a kit) She is my biggest and best looking girl at 11 lbs.