Monday, 5 May 2014

Third time lucky?

Mrs Robinson has just had her third litter. The previous two she has made a mess of and have all died - a few she ate, and the rest of cold and starvation, traumatic! In both cases she had them scattered around the floor of the cage rather than in a nice warm nest. Both other times she took against the nest box and tried to chuck it out her cage. This time I put it in really early - and at the same time as I moved her from a cage on the lawn in to the bunny palace, so it was in there when she moved in.
She has had the litter in a nest in the nest box, so it is going much better than previous times. Either she has been talking to the other bunnies, or she heard that she is for the 'clonk' if it doesn't work out this time, or perhaps it is the warmer weather. She is a nice big rabbit, so we are hoping it will go well. I haven't looked in the nest closely, as I don't want to upset her, but I can see from a distance that there is movement in there and she is eating away happily (on grass not baby bunnies!) All she has to do now is feed them!

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