Thursday, April 7, 2011

New kits! 8 little cuties! And more on the way!

This last litter produced a couple pretty kits.  One is dark grey the other is light grey.   I don't mind all the different colors we're getting as we're keeping the fur for any processed rabbits.  We've come to the conclusion the rabbits we got are mutts.   Eventually we may buy registered stock, but we'll keep these rabbits and some of the offspring that we like.   I'm not going to get rid of them because of the way they turned out.   Besides, I'm having fun pairing up rabbits to see what we end up with.  This last litter I paired our black female with the large brown male.  The kits are 3 black, 2 drk brown, 1 dk grey, 1 lt grey and a light brown.  I may keep the two grey kits to see what they turn out like.

The white CA rabbit that lost her litter is due to have a new litter any day now.  I actually expected them lastnight but not yet.  I am a bit concerned that we'll lose this batch as well as she doesn't want to use the nest box.  I keep putting the straw and fur in the box, she keeps pulling them out. 

I paired two CA lastnight and this morning so we should have a litter of all white kits by the first week of May.