One of the things I love about Christmas, since we started with rabbits eight years ago, is Christmas bunnies! This year it is more fun because I look forward to showing them and I have I have a doe due on Christmas, (but if you have read previous posts you already know that my rabbits often like to mess with my brilliant breeding plans, so we shall see). The doe that is due on Christmas is  GC Luna .   Three days after Thanksgiving, Twilight  kindled four from her breeding with her grandfather GC Leon , all black and carrying blue blue from their mother. I suspect that Leon does not carry dilute, so all his offspring will be black. Twilight was a bit clueless being a first-time mother, which makes me thankful that my husband was home to watch her while I was away for the event. Of course, she was a day past her due date... rabbits love to mess with me and my brilliant breeding plans! Twilight did not make a nest and did not pull any fur... none at all ...

I have mentioned a few times that my does are not young. Whoops just turned four years old at the the beginning of the month. Her fertility has been in question, which is why we were having her kindle here (before the buyer backed out). Her first breeding with the young NZW-A buck did not take, so I had bred her again with the proven NZW-B.  I was certain she was pregnant this time and she was, but while I was gone all day yesterday doing errands, my husband texted me to say she only gave birth to a single kit. He reported that it was alive and regular sized. That made me think that she was not done, but he said she had been out of the nest for a long time. I could not wait to get home and palpate her, because having just one regular size did not sound likely to me. I was sure there was more to come and I was concerned it might just be one more, which would make it likely that it would be a fetal giant . I felt her abdomen and I was pretty sure I felt a large mass in her b...