New Baby Bunnies!

I have seven female rabbits who are all due tomorrow, the first of May.  But quite a few times I've had rabbits give birth the day before, so I went out and checked all my females early this morning. 

 

Dotty

 

Dotty, (who had been bred with Oreo) has a nice litter!  She's extremely protective, so I had a hard time getting a look to even count how many babies she had.  So from what I gather, she had 7 babies :)

 

By the time I got the camera out there, Dotty wouldn't even let me touch the fur covering the babies.  Which is fine and normal.  She's a first time mom who just wants to make sure her babies are safe.  So I couldn't get a picture of them, but they're underneath all that fur in the picture above! :)

 

Malaguena - who's from the same litter as Pocahontas

 

Then Malaguena also had her litter today.  She was bred with Chuck.  I'm really excited about the coloring the babies' fur will end up being!  It's always hard getting an exact number from any litter the first day they're born since the mothers are the most protective and the most tired.  But I do believe she had a litter of 6. :)

Malaguena's litter

 

Then here's Pocahontas, (she's Rhett and Angel's daughter and was raised by us inside after her mother died) she was bred with Dustin.  She also had her litter today!  I do believe she had a litter of 9 babies!!! :) 

Pocahontas' litter :)

 

Button's had her litter also!  She was bred with MJ (who's a single maned Lion Head) so it will be interested to see if any of the babies end up with manes :)  She had a nice sized litter of 9 babies, just like Pocahontas! One of her babies is SUPER small though.  I'm not sure if it's a runt or a peanut.  Either way, it probably won't live, but when the runts do live, they always end up my favorite :)

Button's litter :)

 

After going out about an hour later, I found that GG had her litter too :)  She was bred with Phantom, who's a double maned Lion Head.  GG is a single maned Lion Head, so all the babies should definitely carry on the markings of the Lion Heads, as they'll sport manes :)  I'm so excited!

 

She currently has her litter split into groups.  As you can tell by the photo below, she has some in the top right hand corner and others more in the bottom right hand corner.   In total, she has a nice sized litter of 8 babies! :)

Cottontail

 

As of right now, Cottontail and Pumpkin have not yet had their litters.  If they don't have them later today, they'll probably be having them tomorrow sometime :)  They both have built up their nests and so now it's just about waiting. 

Pumpkin

 

All the other babies from the last bunch of litters are doing great! They're three weeks old and super cute :)

 

I went to take a picture of Dotty and her litter only to see this peculiar sight!

 

 

First off, I find it funny that there's a baby hiding under the ramp :)

 

Then, all the babies are sleeping inside the food dish instead of their yellow box, which their mother is partially hanging out of. 

 

Dotty's doing a great job with them all :)  They're all fat, happy and healthy little bunnies who are absolutely adorable. The brown one with the white paw reminds me of a little hamster :)

 

Valentine is doing a great job with her babies as well.  They LOVE the cage they're all in!  The babies all go into the corners, stand on top of one another, then hang from the top of the cage.  It's so cute to watch :) 

 

I'm thinking of moving them into a different cage soon though, because with all the babies and the mother, it will get messy quickly since it's a solid bottom.  But currently it's working very well for them all :)

 

Here are a couple of Ruby's babies also hanging out in their food bowl. :)

 

I moved the bucket out of the way to find all the babies sleeping behind it...

 

Ruby's such a sweet rabbit.  One of her brown colored babies LOVES jumping up and sitting on her back.  It's really cute.  And she doesn't seem to mind one bit!

 

Kayla's two little Lion Heads are doing very well!

 

Kayla is really good about letting me hold her babies.  She'll come over to the side of the cage, watch for a moment to make sure they're okay, then go back to relaxing. 

 

I'm not sure if I'll keep the female or not.   This is the first female Lion Head that Kayla has ever had.  And Kayla's so sweet...I'll have to think about it. 

 

Lastly, LE's babies...

 

When I was out early this morning, all her babies were out and about running all over the cage.  But when I got to them with the camera, they were all sleeping in their hut :)  They're all so fat and cute!

 

Hopefully Pumpkin and Cottontail will have nice, healthy litters.  I'm sure they will though as both of them have had litters before and done well as mothers.  Anyway, that's what's going on in the rabbitry currently!