litter updates

Wow, were does the time go!The litters in the barn are growing like bad weeds and hopefully some beautiful flowers are amougst the bunch. Mitchell's Galaxy raised the little blue kit to weaning. He is a very promising junior buck. He has a georgeous head and ears and excellent color. He has a very short round body that could use more depth. I need to watch his toenail color, he is too young to know for sure. I have called him 'Thunder'.

Mitchell's Dizzy successfully raised five kits. All tri's and tri charlies. There is one nicely marked buck who also has the best head of the bunch. I need to look throught the litter this week to sex and evaluate the others.

Posey's Phebe has a wonderful litter of five kits. Three chinchillas and two broken chinchillas. They are just four weeks old but they already have beautiful heads and round little bodies.

Mitchell's Bluebell, my blue harli doe unfortuately died from an unexpected visit from a neighboring dog. She tragically broke her neck. I was able to foster her five kits onto Mitchell's Ladybug, a Californian doe. There is one REW, two blue, one broken blue and a black in the litter. Being a F1 outcross, no tri's were expected. I was hoping for an opal but if the broken blue looks promising I may keep it.

Mitchell's Ladybug (cal doe) had a small litter of four kits after more that 14months since her last litter. She has raised three and is successfully nursing the five mini lop kits from Bluebell

Mitchell's Grasshopper, another Californian doe is raising seven nice kits. Their eyes have just opened.

I have two test (mal) litters. Firstly there are eight kits from Tamashanter's Kenya and five kits from Posey's Austin. I will evaluate the tooth orientation in another six weeks.

Mitchell's Blitz has a test litter of two. I will evaluate their tooth orientation in a month.

Silver Streak's Fiona (silver marten) raised a nice litter of blue martens. There are four bucks, two of which will be on the for sale page soon. The two does in the litter both have one blind eye..... not sure what caused this at this time but will watch the eyes closely.

I am expecting a litter this week from 'Kimmi', a chocolate carrier doe; and from Mitchell's Ruby, a chinchilla doe. I hope both these does conceived.

I rebred Velotta's Cattabrie and Milkhouse Summer. I hope these two does conceive this time round. They have both trimmed down in body weight and have completed their spring molt. They are looking good.

I have also had a chance to bleach out two of the four automatic watering systems the past week and moved animals and cleaned a number of cages. Tamashater's Kaylee is now in a breeding cage. She will be bred to S&K's Stanley. Mitchell's Twix was also moved into a breeding cage after the loss of Alpine's Aero who also died in the dog encounter. I will be breeding her to ProJ's Deisel.

I am continuing to work on fencing my one acre property to keep these pesky animals off the property. This week all the gates should be installed.