Baby Update

Blueberry Sundae, eyes wide open, 15 days old.  He's growing quite well and will definitely be staying here.  He will be traveling to the barn with me on occasion, at the request of my trainer.  That way, she can have the fun of a bunny without the work.  

Bunivere was nesting when I had to leave for the horse show.  She built a beautiful nest in the corner under her water bottle.  Does do not like people changing the location of the nest so I moved the water bottle.  The weekend report from the pet sitter on her progress: she demolished the big beautiful nest, built a smaller slap dash nest in another corner and never pulled wool, did not have babies.

Hop Chocolate's litter threw a curve ball at me while I was away over the weekend.  My pet sitter called  to say he found 2 babies on the floor Saturday night, another crawling around the cage and only one in the nest.  That left 2 unaccounted for.  And I couldn't do anything about it.  Sunday, the pet sitter reported he'd counted 5 in the nest.  It's easy to miss squiggly babies in a nest if you're not used to counting bunny babies while containing an angry protective doe.  Oh, heck, it's easy to miss babies even if you are used to counting them.  So I returned home late Sunday evening and immediately did a baby count. Within the first 24 hours, I counted and recounted that litter, made note of possible colors, and there were definitely 6 babies, all of them color, no whites.  Sunday night, I counted one, two, three, four - hey, how'd this one turn into white? - five, six, seven... Seven??  Hmmmm...  I was too tired to ponder this.  Monday morning even before a first cuppa tea, I pulled the babies out and compared.  All the color babies are growing, no longer thin and wrinkly, and fully covered with hair as they should be at 5 days old.  The white one was a bit bigger than the color ones but not as fully covered with hair.  Apparently, Bunivere did have a baby and it must have been one of the two the pet sitter found on the floor.  Or possibly, since Bunivere's cage is the top one in a stack of three, with Hop Chocolate at the bottom, this little baby dropped directly into Hop Chocolate's cage.  Yes.  I could possibly have missed the white baby in the first couple days.  But miss the same baby on each count?   The only white in the litter?  The biggest baby in the litter?  I don't think so.  So I'm pretty sure this white one is a pure German from Bunivere and Bear.  There will be other clues along the way, such as the timing of eyes opening.  And coat difference.  As nice as Hop Chocolate's and Sweet Woolyum's coats are, they are different from Bunivere's and Bear's.  In all likelihood, this white baby will stay here at Woolybuns.  Choosing which one to keep from the color babies could prove difficult.  The color count: 1 chocolate, one lilac, 4 blues.  I think my choice will be between the chocolate and the lilac, since I am keeping Blueberry Sundae.  Gender and whether or not the babies develop any random white spots will also play a role in my choice.  At least three of the blues will definitely be available though, so if anyone is looking for a blue, email me. 

Comments

[marianne]

little Blueberry, he is soooo cute! and yep, baby bunnies in the nest, they hide, they're sneaky ;^)

[baby sling]

The white one was a bit bigger than the color ones but not as fully covered with hair. Apparently, Bunivere did have a baby and it must have been one of the two the pet sitter found on the floor.