Anemone got her nestbox last night and has started making her nest like a good little mommy. I am so excitied.. kits at last!!! :D I will keep y'all updated.. she is due Saturday, though she tends to go the night before, so we will see. I palpated her yesterday to make sure she was pregnant, and felt at least two kits.. I don't think she is going have a big litter like last time though. Maybe 3, 4 tops (watch her have like 9 now, LMAO).

:dance: Yaye!! Keep us posted on how it goes!

yay more kits!!!! gotta love those babies :D

What a little brat! I think I just jinxed myself by posting.. she destroyed her nest last night. :???: Not too worried though.. I have had girls do it before, still plenty of time left.

Anything yet? :unsure:

Nope, she isn't due until Saturday so I won't start watching till Friday night. Unfortunantly it is supposed to be cold Friday so I am hoping she goes Saturday when it is supposed to warm up a good deal.

But some happy, random news.. I got my two BEW does mixed up, so I palpated the wrong girl. Stacey sent me an e-mail telling me I had them mixed up so I went ahead and palpated the other girl (Waterfall), and there are babies in there! She is due the 13th. :D

:dance: :dance: I'm so happy for you! It's about time you had some good news.

Thank you! I am so happy the new year is starting off well.. I think this year is going to be really good! I have two other does due as well...

-Andromeda (Chinchilla) x Bubbles (Broken Chinchilla)- Due 01/31/06- Hoping for some solid chins there.
-Nova (Blue) x Clinton (Broken Chinchilla)- Due 02/03/06- First home bred doe that I have bred! Hoping for some Squirrels. :narf:

Any chance of squirrel in there? I love that color!

It's possible.. just depends on how lucky I get in the gene toss, LOL.

She needed to practice for the big day! ;)

GO NOVA! We gotta have some really good babies with you and Clinton since your daddy is mixed up and all.... :wacko:

LMAO. He is an oddball, that's for sure. :wacko:

That's what makes him Opie! :lol:

Well she decided to build another nest today.. what an odd one she is. :lol:

Practice Makes Perfect. :D

OMG, what a pain in the butt! She ruined her nest AGAIN last night. :huh:

No babies yet.. she is due today. I was rather glad she didn't go last night though.. it got down in the 20's. It's supposed to be high 60's today though. :D She is cleaning herself alot "down there", so maybe early afternoon we will have some!

She's going to build that nest again - right before she has them LOL!

Oh I am sure she will. My rabbits like to drive me insane. :P I am a bit worried though, she seems really distressed. I was just sitting and watching her, and it looks like she is having contractions.. I am worried because she has not even pulled fur yet. I hope everything goes smoothly. :( I have someone coming to my rabbitry today, and now I wish I hadn't.. I don't really want people out there if she hasn't had them.

Can you call that person and ask them to come another day? Or, if theyre coming to pick up a rabbit have it ready for them away from the rabbitry.

It may not bother her but I know a lot of breeders dont allow visitors when they have a doe due.

She already left early this morning to come. She is bringing her kids but I told her last night if she hadn't delivered that the kids could not come in. I know she wanted to look at what does I had for sale, but maybe I will just bring them up in carriers so she can look at them.

I definitely wouldn't allow the kids in. I think I would make that even if she does have them! She might freak or something since she would have just had them - most likely it will be late tonight.

Don't worry - I remember hearing that they can pull the fur, build the nest and have the babies in a couple of hours time.

:hug:

Well.. still no babies. I really don't like palpating this late in pregnancy, but I did anyway just to be sure. She is most definantly pregnant, as I felt at least one fully developed fetus in there. That leads me to believe I might have written the wrong date down. :brow: But I am pretty sure she will have them by tomorrow night. Fingers are crossed! And I am glad she waited because it will not be very cold tonight.

I always hate waiting for new babies 'cause it seems like my does decide to cross their legs and make me wait a day or so longer just to remind me I'm not the boss...

Anyway - I'm keeping my fingers crossed that she has those babies SOON!

Thank you! I have actually never had a doe go over her due date, so I suppose I am a tad impatient, LOL. :rolleyes: Come on girl!! She is just sitting on top of the nestbox looking at me like I am insane, LOL. Hopefully I will get up to a nestbox full of babies tomorrow...

My fingers are crossed for your new babies to come tonight with no problems XXXXXX :D

Umm ..... Nichole? It's tomorrow now. :poke:

GRR.. still no babies. And she couldn't have picked a better night to have them than last night.. it was 52*F!! I swear to god there is at least one kit in there.. I could distinctly make out the head and body. She just has to be a pain in the butt because the other two litters from her were right on time. <_<

:lol: I know it's not funny Nichole. I think it's like someone else said...they make you wait just to remind you who's boss.

Crossing fingers for babies soon.

Is the kit moving around when you feel it, Nichole? It could be a fetal giant if theres only one, if it is it might be gone already.... :(

I really wasn't wanting to stress her out, so once I found one I didn't probe for more. I definantly hope it isn't a fetal giant though. :(

Update: Still no babies. I took her out to palpate again, and it took me forever to find a baby.. however the one I did fine was moving, and did not like me touching it, LOL. They are still up high in the abdomen, not down in the birth canal area yet. I flipped her over to try and see if she was lactating yet, but ended up getting kicked in the face. <_< Ouch. But she has to be somewhat close because the fur on her stomach will come out easily if you pull it. Sooo... come on girl!!!

Maybe tonight then.

*crosses fingers*

Their hair loosens for them? Omg I can't wait! come on babies!

Yepp. Near the end of gestation they release a hormone that makes the hair loosen. Thank goodness...if you've ver seen a doe pulling fur...it'd be very painful otherwise!!

*sigh* Still nothing... what a pain in the behind!!

anything yet?

Nope, nothing. So what should I do now?

1) I am afraid that the babies are going to get too large for her to deliver them easily, increasing chances of a stuck kit and trouble for mom. She is one of the smallest does I have, so now I fear for her.

2) Try breeding to induce natural oxytocin (sp?) and take the change of her getting pregnant again and having a bunch of abandoned 31 day old kits down the road.

3) Try to find an area vet to give her a oxytocin injection. However there are no knowledable rabbit vets around, and I wouldn't even know how much they should be given.

This is frustrating.. are there any foods I can give her that help increase oxytocin at all?

What day is this Nichole? Is it 28 to 32 days?

Personally, I would give it til tonight and then breed her again. (if it's day 32)

Today is day 33.

I used to always think that their milk would dry up if they were bred back to back, but it's actually not true. There was a big mess with fostering Aspen's babies over to Tara (who lost her litter and was going crazy) and Aspen was rebred to Bambi, but Tara's milk dried up a couple days later so Aspen's babies had to go back to her. I freaked out and posted on rabbitweb about it, and someone told me that their milk won't dry up, it'll just continue through both pregnancies and the babies will wean about a week before the new litter comes.

I was worried about it, but the babies were just fine - all lived and have grown up to be nice healthy bunnies. It's not life threatening, but it wears the doe out quick, so give her a nice long break after this if she does end up getting pregnant again.