ZakuraRabbit
Mama Doe
Warning: Extreme cuteness follows.
I attend to an agriculture school (for just one more week) and we've got plenty of small animals in addition to the farm animals (cows, sheep, horses, pigs and chickens), including rabbits, chinchillas, guinea pigs, various types of birds, hamsters, degus and currently some small chicken hatchlings...
Occasionally we breed...you can hate it all you want but don't take it out on me please:roll: but the only rodent we haven't been able to breed before (mostly due to lack of males) and that's the degus...till a couple of weeks ago
Two females have given birth and one is under way (she's HUGE!) sadly one of the first mothers fell ill, and most of her babies died
We took two of them and put them in with the other female, Gråtass, who immediately pitied them and fed them alongside her own.
She's got six now, four of them are her own but we have no way of telling which. There's four males and two females.
Just a day/two days old
One of the mothers...poor thing had bad teeth, the vet has cut them so she can eat, and she seems a bit healthier now, without six hungry babies to take all her food. Just a note about the bowl: that's not the food they're normally eating. She got hamster mix in her food to increase her appetite so she'd gain some weight. Normally they get pure chinchilla-pellets.
A newer picture of one baby
They're certainly more mobile than newborn bunnies.
Which is good when you want a drink and the bottle is too far up.
I attend to an agriculture school (for just one more week) and we've got plenty of small animals in addition to the farm animals (cows, sheep, horses, pigs and chickens), including rabbits, chinchillas, guinea pigs, various types of birds, hamsters, degus and currently some small chicken hatchlings...
Occasionally we breed...you can hate it all you want but don't take it out on me please:roll: but the only rodent we haven't been able to breed before (mostly due to lack of males) and that's the degus...till a couple of weeks ago
Two females have given birth and one is under way (she's HUGE!) sadly one of the first mothers fell ill, and most of her babies died
We took two of them and put them in with the other female, Gråtass, who immediately pitied them and fed them alongside her own.
She's got six now, four of them are her own but we have no way of telling which. There's four males and two females.
Just a day/two days old
One of the mothers...poor thing had bad teeth, the vet has cut them so she can eat, and she seems a bit healthier now, without six hungry babies to take all her food. Just a note about the bowl: that's not the food they're normally eating. She got hamster mix in her food to increase her appetite so she'd gain some weight. Normally they get pure chinchilla-pellets.
A newer picture of one baby
They're certainly more mobile than newborn bunnies.
Which is good when you want a drink and the bottle is too far up.