Thank you! I will try the tums when I go home. My husband was just home and said that she is still just hanging out in the next box. I'm worried that she has stuck kit. I'll be going home too and see if there is anything I can do. <br /><br /> -- Fri Apr 10, 2015 1:19 pm -- <br /><br /> Well, she had the babies when I got home at lunch. Several looked like they had been big enough to deliver but had been dead in utero for a day or so, several looked like they weren't fully developed in the first place. One was alive!!! I took the live one and placed it in the nest of the other doe who kindled on Tuesday. It was about the same size as them and I am hoping that the other doe fosters it in. I know it would have a hard time surviving alone in the nest. I thought about splitting the babies into the two nests, three and three, but didn't want to take the risk. I wish they had shared a nest like I have had does do in the past, they both end up feeding the kits and you end up with very big healthy kits. I think the doe pulled so much hair because she was stressed about the delivery not being quite right. She checked where her nest had been after I took the kit out, felt kind of bad for her but I would rather the kit survive. Overall, I'm relieved that it is over. This was her first litter and I know the first can be rough so it's good to have it out of the way. I'm also relieved that she had conceived because I was starting to question that particular buck because the last doe I bred him to had a false pregnancy. So again, overall, relieved, he is fertile, she is fertile, she has the first litter over and as long as the new kit is still in the nest with the other kits when I get home from work then we will have some baby rabbits again (finally!; it's been a difficult winter...).
Thank you for you advice with the tums, I wish I had known this morning before I left for work!
