nest box questions--first time doe

[Rainey]

We put the nest box in Wednesday, day 28 for Berwick, a first timer. We'd seen her with haystaches but at first she was just scattering it in different places, then eating most of it. Today she had hay and some fur piled on the wire under her bucket and is pulling more fur. The nest box won't fit under the bucket but we put a shallow cardboard box (just bottom and sides, no top) under the bucket and put the material she had into it. She is busy arranging that and with the bucket above it--sort of roofing it over, it should work. We were thinking we'd just take the real nest box out, wait until the kits are born, put the nest and them into the wooden box and just take it out to her twice a day for feeding. (While the high today is 50, tomorrow we're back to high around freezing and snow ) Does this sound reasonable? How soon after kindling should we move them? When you take the nest box out to her, how long do you leave it--do you watch to see if she gets in and feeds them or leave it and come back in a bit and see if they are full-bellied?
Thanks for the patience shown to the new and the nervous

update--a few hours later. She chewed on and dumped the hay and fur from the cardboard box, put it back on the wire. We put the nest material in the nest box we had put in for her a couple days ago, tried to arrange it like a nest. She's pulling more fur but it seems to be just scattered around. Wish I could communicate with her about where we'd like to see the nest and why she prefers the wire. Or that she'd kindle today while it's warm even though it's only day 30. Guess we just keep an eye on her through the rest of today, cover the whole cage floor with hay for the night and hope for the best.

 

[Dood]

If wait until she's given them a meal before taking the kits out

I'd bring it back every 12 hours and in leave her alone to feed them for 10 minutes

 

[Marinea]

Yep, I take mine out in the morning- the does tend to jump right in. I stay until they are done nursing, and bring the kits back in until about nightfall. At night, they don't jump right in, so I leave the boxes out about an hour or so. At about two weeks, I leave the kits out.

*fingers crossed for kits*

 

[Rainey]

Found 6 kits, not in the nest box, just after 10 this morning. Brought them in and warmed them up--even the coldest one that wasn't moving at first came around under the heat lamp. A couple more questions.
Looking at them while they were warming up, some were definitely emptier looking than others. Is that just normal or does it mean that some had already been fed, others not?
Dood said to leave them out with her until they've been fed and I've read on here that sometimes they don't feed them for the first day or so. If they don't all look fed by this evening do we try to hold her over them as I've read of others doing or just bring them in for the night? I'm assuming she'll find them in the nest box where we covered them with the fur she'd left beside them on the hay-covered wire.
Snowing and cold again here today so we'll be checking on them to see that they don't get chilled.