Luna's Babies!!

WARNING: Some people may find the pictures in this post to be graphic.  Pictures taken from a birth.

I'm so excited because Luna, my Mini Lop female, just gave birth - and I mean, JUST! So I ran back and grabbed the camera :)

So first off...a few photo's of the first-time father :)

I'm really proud of Gorman! He's my beautiful blue-eyed-white Holland Lop.  I LOVE his coloring, but I wasn't sure how well he'd do breeding.  Looks like he did just fine :) I'm so proud of him!

So I went running out just to check...and I saw this...

The red immediately caught my eye! I looked at it closer to see if it was the placenta...and it was!

I then got some dandelions, strawberry leaves, and 2 yogie treats for Luna to give her some energy after giving birth :)

She's so cute :)

Then I opened up the hutch.

A beautiful pile of fur that Luna had just pulled.

And right underneath the fur...8 beautiful babies!!!

They all look like they'll be some form of multicolored. 

They're just so adorable! I'm so glad to finally have another litter of babies.  I just love watching them grow and holding them and everything.  I really missed not having any bunnies growing up over the winter.  Although, with it being so much warmer now, their survival chances go WAAAAY up!

And then New Girl was really busy ripping out more fur to add to her nest...so I'm thinking she's getting close to having her litter too :)

She's adorable :)

The entrance to the bunny hole!

Look at all that fur!

And here's Kayla, busy gathering more hay in her mouth to arrange it just right for her nest :)

:)

As you can see, everything's going very well back there! And hopefully either later this evening or tomorrow morning sometime there will be more babies to get pictures of :)

Making Nests

So tomorrow my Mini Lop Luna, my Lion Head Kayla, and my Rex mix female New Girl are all due!

They've all begun making their nests and pulling out fur...

New Girl, trying to get some rest :)

I'm excited about New Girl's litter! She's had 2 others before and was an awesome mom! But, those were both with her previous owner.  When I got her, she was still nursing 2 three month old babies from her first litter, and 6 three or four week old babies from her second.  This will be her third litter.

I gave her a long break because I didn't want her to lose her health.  But I really do have nothing but faith in her mothering skills and she was FANTASTIC with her other litters :)  Down below is the nest she currently has built up in prepration for her babies.

Then here's Luna.

She's been ripping fur out for...maybe 3 or 4 weeks now.  She's had 2 litters before as well and is also a FANTASTIC mother!!! I think she's so great :)

She's my Lop who has large litters and seems to do really well with having that large size.  I gave her some hay to help build up her nest last night, as well as this morning.  So in the pictures, all you can really see is the hay, but underneath there is lots of fur!

And third, here's Kayla.

This will be her 5th litter.  Her largest litter had 5 babies, and her smallest was 3.  She's also a super mother! Not only does she raise her own, but for her first 2 litters, she also raised up a few babies from a different mother! So she's a great mom, and a fantastic foster mom too!

Although with her, she doesn't like her babies being touched until around day 10.  If you don't wait, and touch the babies before then, she'll kill them.

So I just wait out the 10 days...it's not that big of a deal :)

I'd rather not touch and have live babies then touch and have dead ones!

She was one of my first female Lion Heads ever.  I got her and Olivia at the same time.  Olivia was evil, but Kayla was always sweet.  She's a good mom.  And when I got her, she was only $5. Now, I see the same woman who I got Kayla from advertising on craigslist for bunnies of the same breed, sex, color, and age for over $50!

Another great thing about her, (especially when I breed her with Phantom) is that she always produces show quality babies.  And well, show quality always sell for more then pet quality :)

Breeding

So yesterday I bred 3 more sets of bunnies.  I missed Monday because it was raining...and I was sick.  I still have a cold, but I didn't want to go off schedule too much, so with the help of my brother, 3 more bunnies were bred yesterday :)

So, I bred my Mini Lop male, Bruce with my Mini Lop female, Bonnie.

I was a little worried how Bonnie would do, since she's a moody bunny.  I didn't want her to attack.  That's why I put her in with Bruce, because he's a good breeder and I felt he would be able to control her better than any of my other Lop males.  And well, they both did great! She laid right down for him and he got right to work :)

And Phantom.  Since Piccolo passed away, he's been my only Lion Head breeder for my females.  I'm raising up Flynn, but he's still too young to breed.  Although luckily Phantom's a good breeder and hasn't minded the extra amount of breeding.  Besides, the most he's breeding is once a week, which is definitely safe and healthy.  He could do a lot more, but I'm happy with this pace for now.

So I had Phantom, my Lion Head male breed with Kizzy, my Mini Lion Head female.

This is the first time I've bred them together.  I always bred Kizzy with Piccolo, so they had adorably small babies.  But, with him gone, Phantom's the only option.  I'm actually really excited to see the color variations I'll get from their offspring, especially since Phantom has such beautiful blue eyes!

:)

Then last but NOT least...I bred Dustin, my Rex/Californian/New Zealand mixed male with Dadooshka, my Giant Chinchilla/Giant Flemish/Satin mixed female.

So together, their babies will be large (because of Dadooshka) and meaty (because of Dustin).

The last litter Dadooshka had, Dustin was the sire.

She always has nice sized litters, and Dustin always seems to produce nice sized litters as well.

So together, Dadooshka and Dustin make an awesome duo!

Kicked Out

So, the bunnies in the basement have been down there waaaaaay longer then they ever should have been.  Consequently, I moved them out today :)

So as you can see...the tarped section on the far right is the newest addition.  The section where I put the basement bunnies :)

And then I moved Ragnara, my English Lop, into one of the largest cages I have.

And then Francis, one of the Velveteen Lop males, is currently on top.

Ragnara was supposed to have babies this past Monday, but clearly wasn't ever pregnant.  So I'm thinking of breeding her Monday...

Francis, eating dinner :)

Then over here I put the two Velveteen Lop females, Lily and Lilac, next to Cora and Jetta.

Lilac :)

And Lily!

Lily is my biggest Velveteen.  And she's so sweet :)

Then I moved my new female (still to be named!) where I used to keep Piccolo.  I'm so glad I got her.  She's going to have some beautiful babies!

She's currently small enough so she has plenty of space in there :)

And then I put Brody, my other Velveteen Lop male, in where the new bunny had been.

He's the exact same coloring as Lily.

He's so cute :)

I really love all the personalities of my Velveteens...and even my English Lop! But currently, I'm thinking of selling them.  Maybe...maybe not.  I'm not sure.  They just don't seem to do well with breeding.  Like, at all.  I'll try again, but it's not looking good.  And I don't know why.  But I must say, it's very disappointing waiting out the 32 days to find no babies.  Yes, I'll give it another try, but no, I'm not expecting much.  Which is a shame, since they're such beautiful, soft, sweet bunnies.