First time meat mutt litter

[Whipple]

Stella is a year old, best guess is a badly bred NZW. She's over a year old, never been bred. So I bred her to my unproven Rex buck, not hoping for much. Covered once.

She had 8 fat wrigglers. Covered in a ton of fur in the nest box. She ignored my boyfriend when he checked, and he didn't know to stick his finger in to feel for babies. So tonight I checked and she looked in the nest box as if to show me her babies. :in_love:

I will be keeping a doe, maybe not from this litter, but I want to keep that mothering ability around.

__________ Thu Apr 18, 2013 11:23 pm __________

Sorry about the bad lighting on the first pic, but these babies are huge!

 

[Marinea]

Congrats on the popples! That is a nice looking nest.

 

[AmysMacdog]

:congratulations:

 

[TMTex]

Congrats!

 

[MaggieJ]

Great nest! Nice fat popples! Yeah for Stella! :bouncy:

 

[Miss M]

:bouncy: :bouncy: :bouncy: Congratulations!

 

[Whipple]

I took them out is morning and she looked anxious. As soon as the box was down she hopped in to feed them. When I brought them back in they had huge full bellies. Good mama this one is

 

[3mina]

Considering the shape she was in when you got her she's done extremely well. She was all bones, Whipple did a great job bringing her back into condition.

 

[Whipple]

She's a very boney girl, she makes me think of a Holstein cow. But you can tell she's healthy and quite happy.

 

[DitchDoc]

:lol: Congratulations! How cool is that? Sounds like a keeper for sure!