Baby Velveteens!

So my sweet Velveteen Lop, Lily, had babies!!

The father of this litter is my tan Velveteen Lop male, Francis :)

My sister and I went out to feed and water the bunnies outside.  While suiting up (since we got 28 and 1/2 inches of snow!!), we saw her ripping out fur.  And since tomorrow's her due date, we figured she was go tonight sometime. 

Well, when we came back in, not 30 minutes later, we saw she had given birth!!! 

Now, she gave birth outside of her nestingbox.  All the babies are currently still alive, but they were really cold when we felt them.  So we hooked up a heating lamp (which is causing the red in the pictures above) in hopes they will survive the night.  In the mix of this, I didn't get an accurate count, but I believe she had about 12 babies :) 

Hopefully now they'll be warm enough to make it. 

They're all so adorable! They look like they might all get a Tort coloring, but we'll see.  Only time will tell.  This is Lily's first litter, so I'm hoping she's going to be a good mother and tend her babies well :)

They're so tiny and cute!

And well, Lily's doing very well! I'm sure she's happy to have all those babies out :)  And Lily's sister, Lilac is also supposed to be due tomorrow.  She had done some digging in her nesting box, but hasn't ripped out any fur or anything.  I'm actually not sure she's really pregnant.  The breeding was a first time for both her and Brody (the hopefully soon-to-be father of her litter) and it didn't exactly seem to go the smoothest.  But we shall see.  If she is pregnant, I hope she has an easy birth and is a good mother! But if not, that's par for the course.  She's still young, healthy, and will do fine another time, I'm sure :)