Sunday, December 13, 2015

A quick look at two week old baby bunnies in the nest


Pretty new babies!


We have successfully identified Love as the mother of this litter.  Based on the fact that none of them have broken coloration (i.e. patches of white like Reed and Arnold) we can make a well-founded assumption that Haystack is the lucky father.  We have one fawn - he's out front here-that looks to be a buck.  Drew named him Cracker.  The ruby-eyed white is a doe we've named Rosabelle.  The other three are tortoiseshell, probably chocolate, maybe black, and appear to be two bucks and a doe.  Drew will name them later.  We'll confirm gender in a couple of weeks but I've gotten pretty good at identifying them- just not keeping them away from each other!  I could have wished for more does and fewer bucks but we're lucky to have such beautiful rabbits.