Sunday 23 March 2014

Snow - and Ginger is building a nest

Ginger is the rabbit that we think/hope is finally pregnant. We have had her almost a year and she has been mated several times, but has failed to get pregnant each time. She has just started building a nest, initially not in the nest box, but I moved the nest box to where she was building the nest and she has added to it in there. She is spending more time running around with stuff in her mouth than she is actually building, but first time mothers often don't get it quite right apparantly.

Unfortunately the lovely warm spring weather has given way to winter again and we have snow (not much, but still...), hardly ideal conditions for bald little rabbit babies whose mothers don't lie with them, but just visit to feed them once a day.
However we are pleased she seems to be finally pregnant and apparantly most first litters don't make it anyway, but hopefully she will get pregnant again, and the weather will be better next time.

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