TF3
Well-known member
Ok. I need to hear from you practiced and practical folks 
We had three meat mutts bred and ended up with 4 kits and a dead doe.
The kits were for our freezer (assuming we could keep a doe or two for spring breeding and resell the mutt mamas who were bigger than we want to keep all winter-- NZW/Satin and her daughter whose sire was French Lop).
Well, you know what happens when you make a plan! :lol:
In Northern Ontario winter is early and long.
I want to wrap up production by mid-October.
So I have for meat brood does:
Clover (kits are 6 weeks, she could be bred again, great condition, great mama. Flemish cross I plan to breed to my NZR buck)
Spice (2 @ 10 day old kits in nest out of my Cali buck and they made very pretty babies LOL she is age 2+ and going back to original owner ASAP -- I could try her again and keep her, though and use my Cali again)
Pearl (2 @ 2 day old kits, lost 5 during kindling likely due to #3 being stuck on way out. She's s little chunky but has nice meat type and I want to give her another chance-- with my Cali to get some pointed white to breed back to him)
And I want to have same due dates.
Should I cull Pearl's two? I would like to see how they go for a bit because the sire is a very nice pb NZW and I would like a doe (3/4 NZ) to breed to my pb NZR --but I could breed him to Pearl.
But it makes the most sense to breed her ASAP since her litter was nearly a wash, doesn't it, and I think she will get gain weight feeding just two kits?
I guess I'm stuck on what happens if she delivers in 4-5 weeks with kits...
Not good, right?
We had three meat mutts bred and ended up with 4 kits and a dead doe.
The kits were for our freezer (assuming we could keep a doe or two for spring breeding and resell the mutt mamas who were bigger than we want to keep all winter-- NZW/Satin and her daughter whose sire was French Lop).
Well, you know what happens when you make a plan! :lol:
In Northern Ontario winter is early and long.
I want to wrap up production by mid-October.
So I have for meat brood does:
Clover (kits are 6 weeks, she could be bred again, great condition, great mama. Flemish cross I plan to breed to my NZR buck)
Spice (2 @ 10 day old kits in nest out of my Cali buck and they made very pretty babies LOL she is age 2+ and going back to original owner ASAP -- I could try her again and keep her, though and use my Cali again)
Pearl (2 @ 2 day old kits, lost 5 during kindling likely due to #3 being stuck on way out. She's s little chunky but has nice meat type and I want to give her another chance-- with my Cali to get some pointed white to breed back to him)
And I want to have same due dates.
Should I cull Pearl's two? I would like to see how they go for a bit because the sire is a very nice pb NZW and I would like a doe (3/4 NZ) to breed to my pb NZR --but I could breed him to Pearl.
But it makes the most sense to breed her ASAP since her litter was nearly a wash, doesn't it, and I think she will get gain weight feeding just two kits?
I guess I'm stuck on what happens if she delivers in 4-5 weeks with kits...
Not good, right?
