wabbitmom12
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Well, if you read wabbitdad's blog, you know our big blue Flemmie, Velvet, had a baby bunner earlier this week. She had had infertility problems before (actually probably due to her former breediing partner, who is now at the Bridge), so we weren't entirely sure she was preggo. She didn't look very big...couldn't get a feel of any little bunnies in there...then, she started building a monstorous nest!!
Holy cow, she could have had 18 babies in that nest! And she pulled out every last bit of her (very generous) dewlap fur. Have you ever seen a Flemmie with anaked, pink dewlap? Very odd!! And, boy, was she ever into guarding her nest. She's always been territorial about her cage - and has a Blue-i-tude as big as she is -but this was EXTREME!
When Dave finally lured her out of the cage, we quickly shut her outside of the room - she glared at us through the gate! - and he checked her nest. Sure enough!!! A kit! Just one...HUGE...kit! Flemmie babies are relatively big, of course, but this "little" guy was gi-normous - 3/4 of the length of my(large!) hand. He had Mama's tummy all to himself, and he really flourished in there. Thank goodness she was able to push him out. He was absolutely perfect, didn't look like a thing in the world was wrong with him, but...
...our poor little kit was cold, and not breathing. Having read on the forum, "Kits are dead until they are WARM and dead" (yikes!), I decided to try and warm up the little fellow. I popped him in my bra awhile, then tried the tepid - to- warm -water soak. No luck. After an hour or so, we declared him deceased. Darn it!
I sure hope we can get Velvet preggers again.
Holy cow, she could have had 18 babies in that nest! And she pulled out every last bit of her (very generous) dewlap fur. Have you ever seen a Flemmie with anaked, pink dewlap? Very odd!! And, boy, was she ever into guarding her nest. She's always been territorial about her cage - and has a Blue-i-tude as big as she is -but this was EXTREME!
When Dave finally lured her out of the cage, we quickly shut her outside of the room - she glared at us through the gate! - and he checked her nest. Sure enough!!! A kit! Just one...HUGE...kit! Flemmie babies are relatively big, of course, but this "little" guy was gi-normous - 3/4 of the length of my(large!) hand. He had Mama's tummy all to himself, and he really flourished in there. Thank goodness she was able to push him out. He was absolutely perfect, didn't look like a thing in the world was wrong with him, but...
...our poor little kit was cold, and not breathing. Having read on the forum, "Kits are dead until they are WARM and dead" (yikes!), I decided to try and warm up the little fellow. I popped him in my bra awhile, then tried the tepid - to- warm -water soak. No luck. After an hour or so, we declared him deceased. Darn it!
I sure hope we can get Velvet preggers again.
Oakridge sid some good stuff there I would have a think about that maybe Cathy will have soem ideas too.
