Pickles and ice cream?

[PatS]

We bred our does two weeks ago yesterday. One of them seems is eating less than usual. This has happened before with her, but it was later in the pregnancy. She seems largely uninterested in her pellets, but is eating hay. If I give her an apple stick, she'll clean the bark off it in minutes. She did finish her oats, but left them sitting around all day and ate them this evening, which is unusual for her. She is pooping. She had a hay moustache today (she always sports an early moustache) and since she is a vey fastidious girl, I put her in the nursery cage with a nest box (she always wants an early nest box and keeps it clean), and she seemed very interested in jumping in and digging around in it.

Could her appetite reduction be hormonal?

The yard is wet (under water!), so she hasn't been given any greens lately, just pellets, apple sticks, a small slice of apple (only ate half yesterday and ignored today's) a bit of oats and hay. She is drinking. She seems to be acting normally.

Any clues?

 

[ottersatin]

Just a guess,
but she may feel very full/too full to eat much
with a possibly large litter growing in there.
I bet her appetite will return once the kits
make their appearance.
Ottersatin. ldtimer:

 

[mystang89]

Reduction in appetite has always come along just before kindling for mine.

Where does the ice cream and pickles come into play here though? It sounds like something my wife would eat together while she was pregnant....actually, I think she that is what she liked together while she was pregnant.

 

[PatS]

Mystang89, Just that. Eating habits being weird during pregnancy. I just went out to the barn to check on her. She had eaten a bit of the pellets from yesterday. I put in her apple and she picked it up and threw it in her j-feeder. I put in her bowl of fresh pellets with oats and she just looked at me. When I got close to the apple sticks she started running around her cage. I gave her one and she started gnawing on it enthusiastically. I think apple sticks have become her "pickles and ice cream."