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Hi folks. I'm mostly a lurker but I wanted to bring up something that absolutely surprised me. I have a doe that has literally turned into a buck, as an adult. I raise meat mutts, a small rabbitry with a mostly Cali buck, a NZ doe and a NZ-Cali doe, daughter of the Cali, and a mutt doe sold to...

Sad to say, but two of the runty kits died and I ended up culling the third one. It was not feeding and even when I flipped the doe he would not feed for very long. I tried supplementing/feeding with a goats milk/KMR formula, but he would do the same thing, nurse eagerly for a little while and...

Thanks ladysown and SarahMelisse. I'm very new at this so the size thing didn't occur to me at first and then I wasn't sure. I swapped the two smaller kits back to their mom, two of her biggest kits to the NZ doe. Everyone seems happy so far. I'll keep an eye on them. By the way, you both have...

This is a follow on question to my intro post. My two does each had their (and my) first litters. The Californian had 12 on the 19th, one died right after birth. She built a nest, pulled fur, fed kits. The New Zealand had 5 biggish kits on the 20th, on the wire, no nest, no fur (I pulled fur...