She's been busy preparing her nest over the past few days. This morning, disturbing only the fur on top of the straw, 31 days after she was bred to Peter, we greeted some new arrivals:
We'll check back in the next few days, to make sure none of the kits is in trouble - we've lost several newborns in our rabbit-keeping experience due to mothers birthing on the cage floor (they cannot move their kits into the nest and they die of exposure), or unfortunately eating their young (a fear response). We also had a mother that killed older kits for no reason that we could fathom - but I did save a runt by grabbing the mother for one-on-one time over several days to make sure the little thing had a chance to eat without competition.
Ten days from now, they'll be furred out with eyes open.
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