Satin doe Scarlett has 3 good looking babies a little over 2 weeks old. I have not bred her back yet but when I went to feed them this morning, there was a dead kit on the wire. Well. Most of a dead kit. It had no head and no legs. It looked like a newborn. What's going on around here?
What the heck?
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3mina
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Sounds like it was malformed and just hadn't passed with the rest of the litter, glad she passed it.
Did you breed her at different days? It might of just been a retained kit that somehow didn't spoil, which is good. Since it would of killed the mom. She might of tried eating the kit, thus the no legs and such.
I think I just bred her the one day. However she is in a cage next to the buck... They are separated by hardware cloth, but I wonder if he could have bred her through the wire. I'm definitely glad she's okay, she's my favorite doe haha.
Here's a pic of her today with one of her two-week-olds
Here's a pic of her today with one of her two-week-olds
MamaSheepdog
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I would suspect that it was a kit that died at birth, and was just hidden in the nest. Despite rigorously searching my boxes after kindling, I have found the occasional "mummified" kit. Since the temps have been cool/cold, it probably didn't really start decomposing, and somehow got removed from the nest.
3mina
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Makes more sense than my retained kit theory
