So, okay. Rundown :
About a month ago, I had Snow and Crystal out for play time, with what I thought was an impenitrable fortress separating them. Snow got through it, and had mounted by the time I got off the bed and grabbed him up. He did not get a chance to really try to get her, she hadn't lifted yet(so I thought), and I figured I got him in time. Into his cage he went, now he gets solo play time or play time with underage kits only.
Today, I hear a kit screaming. Check where I know there are kits(Hannah's cage, the weanling cage), everyone's fine. Look into Crystal's cage, there's 2 little pink things on the floor of her cage. Frigging awesome. She pulled no hair. she was nesting as soon as I took her babies out for weaning, but I thought it was a false pregnancy, as she stopped 2 days afterwards.
One kit was cold as ice, and appeared deformed - the mouth seemed like it developed wrong, and it had no teeth. The other one was the one that was screaming. Also cold, but a peanut. I didn't really know what to do about it, but it stopped screaming, stiffened and died before I could really make a choice. Okay, so no harm, no foul.
Crystal produced 2 more between noon(when I found the first 2) and 4pm. Also both peanuts. One was dead on it's own, the other one I culled. She has still not pulled any hair, nor really shown any interest in nesting.
Okay, so all that's my own dang fault. I had no intention of actually breeding the two, since they both have narrow hips, and I figure breeding mother to son would just make that worse.
Now the interesting part.
I pulled Crystal out to check her over, and palpate her. She's got a HUGE mass-type object right up by her rib cage. Not like the enlarged uterus I normally feel when palpating after delivery. Could she theoretically still have kits in there? Is it wool block?(her poops are completely normal, if not a little bigger than usual.) Cancer? What should I be doing for her, if anything? I gave her some tums, to see if that helps things along, but I'm worried that my stupidity is going to cost her her life.
About a month ago, I had Snow and Crystal out for play time, with what I thought was an impenitrable fortress separating them. Snow got through it, and had mounted by the time I got off the bed and grabbed him up. He did not get a chance to really try to get her, she hadn't lifted yet(so I thought), and I figured I got him in time. Into his cage he went, now he gets solo play time or play time with underage kits only.
Today, I hear a kit screaming. Check where I know there are kits(Hannah's cage, the weanling cage), everyone's fine. Look into Crystal's cage, there's 2 little pink things on the floor of her cage. Frigging awesome. She pulled no hair. she was nesting as soon as I took her babies out for weaning, but I thought it was a false pregnancy, as she stopped 2 days afterwards.
One kit was cold as ice, and appeared deformed - the mouth seemed like it developed wrong, and it had no teeth. The other one was the one that was screaming. Also cold, but a peanut. I didn't really know what to do about it, but it stopped screaming, stiffened and died before I could really make a choice. Okay, so no harm, no foul.
Crystal produced 2 more between noon(when I found the first 2) and 4pm. Also both peanuts. One was dead on it's own, the other one I culled. She has still not pulled any hair, nor really shown any interest in nesting.
Okay, so all that's my own dang fault. I had no intention of actually breeding the two, since they both have narrow hips, and I figure breeding mother to son would just make that worse.
Now the interesting part.
I pulled Crystal out to check her over, and palpate her. She's got a HUGE mass-type object right up by her rib cage. Not like the enlarged uterus I normally feel when palpating after delivery. Could she theoretically still have kits in there? Is it wool block?(her poops are completely normal, if not a little bigger than usual.) Cancer? What should I be doing for her, if anything? I gave her some tums, to see if that helps things along, but I'm worried that my stupidity is going to cost her her life.
