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I've had two new litters born in the past week. One was from Tangerine, a satin fawn self, and Kumquat, a marked satin fawn buck. they were born a bit too early and were very small and red. I noticed that two of them disappeared the first 24 hours, then one more, and fostered them with the other doe who had a litter. That was Honey, an oddly colored marked argente doe in my tri line. She accepted them and they were doing well last night, nice big milk bellies on them. Honey had her second litter off of Sugar, a marked cinnamon tri buck, which consisted of seven babies, so she has a lot to deal with, and I'm giving her extra stuff to support the production of all the milk that will be needed.
There wee four does put to sleep as they had tumors. I've been having difficulty with corn adulterating the wheat and oats I've been getting. I try to sort it out, but after seeing the spate of tumors, I started running all the grain through a wire sieve and found there were a lot of very fine bits of corn that would be almost impossible to get by hand sorting. Now I have two sieves with slightly different size holes, and I'm much happier with the looks of the grain. I think it will take a lot less time to sort the grain with the use of the sieves. I'm also getting rid of the dirt, dust, and whatnot. There was just too much crud in general in the grain; now I'm a lot happier with the product of my sorting. Gonna have to find a different supplier, though. I shouldn't have to go to these lengths to have a decent quality product to feed my little loves.
There wee four does put to sleep as they had tumors. I've been having difficulty with corn adulterating the wheat and oats I've been getting. I try to sort it out, but after seeing the spate of tumors, I started running all the grain through a wire sieve and found there were a lot of very fine bits of corn that would be almost impossible to get by hand sorting. Now I have two sieves with slightly different size holes, and I'm much happier with the looks of the grain. I think it will take a lot less time to sort the grain with the use of the sieves. I'm also getting rid of the dirt, dust, and whatnot. There was just too much crud in general in the grain; now I'm a lot happier with the product of my sorting. Gonna have to find a different supplier, though. I shouldn't have to go to these lengths to have a decent quality product to feed my little loves.