We now have our first 2 litters from our young buck. Even someone as clueless as I am about colors knew we'd get some REWs. The rest still puzzle me. The does are sisters. One is black with silvering from the SF buck. The other I think is black with gold-tipped steel plus some silvering. The kits from the first are shades of grey, from the second more blacks but some already showing the steel and some "blue" like the buck. Are there really different names for all those shades of grey? And while I'm wondering things--how do so many of you get such good photos of kits all lined up or arranged in a circle? Ours are constantly wriggling, piling on top of each other, scattering off into the corners of whatever I've put them in, scrunching under the cloth or whatever I put in to make it soft and warm for them. How do you get them to sit still?
And I started a thread yesterday when we found the second litter from a doe we weren't sure was bred because the mounting was very brief, no fall-off, no noticeable lift. I keep reading posts about what to look for when breeding and still don't know if our experience is really unusual or if we should be concerned about "abnormal" breeding behavior as long as we're getting litters every time.
Below are the two litters, one newborn, the other 2 weeks old, eyes just open, my favorite age.
And I started a thread yesterday when we found the second litter from a doe we weren't sure was bred because the mounting was very brief, no fall-off, no noticeable lift. I keep reading posts about what to look for when breeding and still don't know if our experience is really unusual or if we should be concerned about "abnormal" breeding behavior as long as we're getting litters every time.
Below are the two litters, one newborn, the other 2 weeks old, eyes just open, my favorite age.