More of Asplodamouse!! She's going to have another litter........Photos taken a couple hours ago. Last litter was 17 or 18 babies... Who wants to guess how many and when for this time?...lol
Pregnant Asplodamouse! by Stina_83, on Flickr
Pregnant Asplodamouse! by Stina_83, on Flickr
You'd never guess she was year old! (some time in the next couple weeks)
Here are my current babies...there's been a LOT of drama with this bunch....I had 3 does due around the same time (1/22)....2 gave birth in one night, the other the following night (1/23). One of the first 2 does abandoned her litter....who's babies were out of a buck who'd died and was the ONLY litter I was going to have out of him......I tried to take the babies and give them to the other doe who'd had babies....but she was also a first time mother and was being a COMPLETE idiot with the babies....i.e. left them laying everywhere or under bedding....not intentionally, b/c even some that were in random places had milk bellies! I just kept moving babies back to the nest...but they all got a pretty poor start, and several ended up dying. when the 3rd doe had babies I tried putting some of the abandoned babies with her...but none of them made it and that doe lost a couple as well. Finally everyone that was left (5 from the 2nd doe, 1 from the 1st, and quite a few from 3rd doe) seemed to be doing well (I culled a few boys...since of course nearly all of them were boys!)....when mom number 2 decided to cull a couple babies...I thought maybe something was wrong with the one she'd culled (which of course was one of the 2 does in her litter)....until she culled another....leaving me with just 1 doe from her litter, and the baby from doe 1 (thank god!)....I took them from her and put them under doe 3 (who's been a good mommy) a couple days ago and thankfully they are looking good! The bub from doe 1 is the siamese or whatever color she turns out...lol She is smaller than the others b/c of her poor start, but seems healthy otherwise and is doing well under doe 3. The blackish? is from doe 2...the other ones are from doe 3!
mixed litter babies by Stina_83, on Flickr
mixed litter babies by Stina_83, on Flickr
mixed litter babies by Stina_83, on Flickr
this is the only doe in doe 3's litter...haven't decided if I want to keep her or not yet........I don't want the spots...at all...but she does look satin......I might repeat the litter...
babies and asplodamouse 2011-02-03 006 by Stina_83, on Flickr
the black/"sepia"?...i'm not sure which?...thoughts?..lol Mom is "sepia"...probably chinchillated (c^ch/c^ch) black...dad is a satin blue texel with a white tail tip out of Asplodamouse's last litter...his dad is c^ch/something....lol...so technically black or chinchillated black is possible...
sepia or black? doe by Stina_83, on Flickr
sepia or black? doe by Stina_83, on Flickr
and finally the little pied buck from doe 3.....he will be going to Michelle! ....he is a SWEETIE!
Pied Blue Buck by Stina_83, on Flickr
Here's a video of him!
Pregnant Asplodamouse! by Stina_83, on Flickr
Pregnant Asplodamouse! by Stina_83, on Flickr
You'd never guess she was year old! (some time in the next couple weeks)
Here are my current babies...there's been a LOT of drama with this bunch....I had 3 does due around the same time (1/22)....2 gave birth in one night, the other the following night (1/23). One of the first 2 does abandoned her litter....who's babies were out of a buck who'd died and was the ONLY litter I was going to have out of him......I tried to take the babies and give them to the other doe who'd had babies....but she was also a first time mother and was being a COMPLETE idiot with the babies....i.e. left them laying everywhere or under bedding....not intentionally, b/c even some that were in random places had milk bellies! I just kept moving babies back to the nest...but they all got a pretty poor start, and several ended up dying. when the 3rd doe had babies I tried putting some of the abandoned babies with her...but none of them made it and that doe lost a couple as well. Finally everyone that was left (5 from the 2nd doe, 1 from the 1st, and quite a few from 3rd doe) seemed to be doing well (I culled a few boys...since of course nearly all of them were boys!)....when mom number 2 decided to cull a couple babies...I thought maybe something was wrong with the one she'd culled (which of course was one of the 2 does in her litter)....until she culled another....leaving me with just 1 doe from her litter, and the baby from doe 1 (thank god!)....I took them from her and put them under doe 3 (who's been a good mommy) a couple days ago and thankfully they are looking good! The bub from doe 1 is the siamese or whatever color she turns out...lol She is smaller than the others b/c of her poor start, but seems healthy otherwise and is doing well under doe 3. The blackish? is from doe 2...the other ones are from doe 3!
mixed litter babies by Stina_83, on Flickr
mixed litter babies by Stina_83, on Flickr
mixed litter babies by Stina_83, on Flickr
this is the only doe in doe 3's litter...haven't decided if I want to keep her or not yet........I don't want the spots...at all...but she does look satin......I might repeat the litter...
babies and asplodamouse 2011-02-03 006 by Stina_83, on Flickr
the black/"sepia"?...i'm not sure which?...thoughts?..lol Mom is "sepia"...probably chinchillated (c^ch/c^ch) black...dad is a satin blue texel with a white tail tip out of Asplodamouse's last litter...his dad is c^ch/something....lol...so technically black or chinchillated black is possible...
sepia or black? doe by Stina_83, on Flickr
sepia or black? doe by Stina_83, on Flickr
and finally the little pied buck from doe 3.....he will be going to Michelle! ....he is a SWEETIE!
Pied Blue Buck by Stina_83, on Flickr
Here's a video of him!
