New babies

We just had our second litter today. We have 5 little babies. We were quite shocked that we have all solids, especially when the buck was a broken.

What's in here? Something is wiggling!

Lookie! Here they are! Five babies! Three big and two little ones. The smallest is the lightest; a lilac per chance??? Or blue??? We don't know yet.

Second littler to this rabbitry. Steel is one on the date mark mommy :-)

Close up of one of the dark solids:

Happy Thanksgiving!

Whoops!

The babies are doing great!  We are very anxious to know the sex of the babies. I checked them tonight to see if I could tell yet.  I "think" we have 1 doe and 3 bucks.  I am pretty sure our heavily patterned broken black is a doe and the rest are bucks.  After checking the babies, I went to check the trio to make sure what I am calling does/bucks are that.  I pulled Levi out and I could definitely tell he was a buck and the little bucks looked like that.  I then pulled Zoe out to check to make sure what a doe looks like.  Zoe's "parts" looked just like Levi's.  I was shocked.  I then pulled Bell out and checked her.  She is definitely a doe. I then pulled Zoe back out and checked again and she is definitely a HE!  Needless to say we do not need two bucks and a single doe.  Especially since we are adding a chocolate buck to the mix the first weekend of November.  I talked to the breeder that we got our rabbits from and she says that this sometimes happens because they are so small.  She is going to let us trade "her" out for Macy, a true doe.  The jokes are really flying around here now! 

19 days old

Well the babies are now 19 days old.  They are getting in and out of the nest box on their own and even on top of the nest box!  They are also starting to eat regular food and drink out of a crock.  They are growing like weeds! It is getting very hard to get good pictures of them since they are so inquisitive and not sitting still for long. 

Lesson Learned

Well I am proud to say that all the babies have learned their lesson.  The nest box is better than the big old cage to an 11 day old baby rabbit!  Not a single one has gotten out of the box after their first little adventure yesterday and this morning.

Our cute little babies

Jumping ship!

Babies are jumping ship right and left!  The major problem is that they can not get back in the nest box without help.  I found the lighter patterned broken black out of the nest box yesterday morning and then later in the evening the black was out.  This morning when I went in to feed Steel, I found the last two out of the nest box. They sit there like a deer in headlights.  They don't know what to do.  They are not big enough to get back into the nest box on their own, so I put them back in. When I put the babies back in they immediately snuggle in with their siblings and go to sleep. Most of the time they dig their way to the bottom of the pack, like they are thankful to be back in. They are so very cute!

Beautiful Babies!

Here are our beautiful babies.  We have 2 broken blacks, a broken blue, and a black.  Just love them all!