Thank you so much. I probably will go ahead and weigh weekly. So far the first time momma, she is raising 8, at 1 week and 3 days old 3 are 6 - 6.3 oz, the rest are 5 oz- 5.7 oz.
I'm pretty happy with that.
Experienced moms litter of 7 at the same age are 3.8 oz - 5.3 oz.
New mom litter is...
Good mornin all,
I FINALLY have some meat babies in the nest. Some of you may remember I started off with a Rex pair (they still haven't produced). Since then I purchased an unpedigreed proven Cali buck and a proven meat mutt doe was given to me just because they didn't want to winter her. I...
they can but that isn't what happened the first time. she had a single kit the first time and it was stuck therefore, stillborn. it was very very large
These aren't the best pics but this is my does first living litter, (2nd litter).
I am shocked but she had 6. Both parents are VC I do have a BEW, and a couple VM's and I think a couple of magpies but not 100% sure.
The pics are of them at about 10 hours old.
of course I will update pics as they...