The rabbit kits are now around 12 days old – Ava kindled a day before Loretta – and their eyes are opening. This morning, all of Ava’s kits were out of their nest box and huddled together on the cage floor. Five of Loretta’s were out, too. Now that they can see, they’re going to be pestering their mothers to nurse every time they get out of the next box – and the does get annoyed. Continue reading “Day 12 Rabbit Kit Update – The Runt Grows”
Tag: Kindling
Two Sets Of Kits
As we’d hoped, both our New Zealand does kindled. The white one, Ava, had been “haystaching” early on, so we were pretty confident she would deliver. The agouti (brown) one, Loretta, didn’t obviously make haystaches like Ava did, but she did hollow out a spot in her nest box that looked promising. Continue reading “Two Sets Of Kits”
Ladies Of Leisure
In anticipation of kindling, the NZ does have been brought inside to their kindling cages. They could, theoretically, kindle outside, but with the recent dramatic fluctuations in temperature, we prefer to err on the side of caution and keep them inside.