toy20243 wrote:HI! i really need some help! just a few weeks ago my female New Zealand (pure black) had a good litter of 7 babys! but i was at school when she had them and they froze! She is was a first mother and her nest was nice and set up when i left but it was thrown everywhere when i came home ;( I want to be able to prevent this from happning next time, is their any way i can do this? she did have a nest box and it fit her perfectly but she was able to some how kick everything out of the box and not use it. I dont know what she did but not a single one lived! Also i just joined 4H this year and we dont have our books yet so thats why im asking here. Thank you!
The Mean Kitty wrote:Hey guys! It's been awhile... things have been hard for me and as such I've not been around much lately, but I thought I'd pop in and give a little update. <3 And also to say I like your new Dutch buck, Daisy, haha!
My dwarf hotot had another litter of 3 a little over a week ago, 1 has their eyes open, that same one has much thicker eyebands then the other 2, as well as a black spot on it's right ear though, but the other 2 are all white aside from there eyebands, hoping for a doe and buck so I can show both at fair this year!
Also an update on one big reason I've been away from the thread for a couple weeks... the harlequin litter. 5 of he 7 did not make it, I'm still not sure what was wrong with any of them, if they were all just stillborn (aside from the 1 which lived a few days) or what, but yeah... and the only 2 surviving one were also the only 2 not showable, he 5 that didn't make it all had nice markings, and marking on harlequins are so hard to get decent too, go figure... =/ Looks like I'll be having to just find them pet homes once they're weaned. Still pretty down about all that happened with this litter, I just hope my next harlequin litter will be better.
Daisywolf14 wrote:Hmm that is weird. Some times the hormones just kick in or have you seperated them for a very long amount of time? Sometimes that can trigger fights if they have been seperated for a while.
Other than that I really don't know.. Mabye someone elese does.
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