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Litter progress

This page follows the progress of Shona and Rona's kits from birth through to weaning.  All are progressing well and are ahead of their milestones.  

A few babies whom we're not keeping are being offered for adoption by loving pet homes with full details available on our 'babies available' page.  They have been handled from birth and will be fully socialised as companion pets.  We also propose to litter-train them so they can become potential house-bunnies.   Both litters were fathered by Bob.  The mums are Shona - and her daughter Rona, from our long-established line.


8 September 2011

The kits have now opened their eyes, are exploring outside their nest and starting to nibble hay and solid food - 5 days before the textbooks say they should.
Our babies tend to be very advanced - thanks to their generous mums over-feeding them in their early days.

3 September 2011:
The litters have been sexed as follows:

Shona's boys

  • broken black

  • broken blue

  • black


Shona's girls

  • light broken blue

  • broken black

  • black

  • chocolate butterfly - keeping

  • blue butterfly - possibly keeping


Rona's boys

  • broken black


Rona's girls

  • black butterfly x 3

  • broken black x 3


Illustration of 'broken' pattern

The body is mostly white but characterised by a stripe along the spine, usually coloured ears and a pattern of spots along the body and on the face.

Illustration of butterfly pattern

The body is mostly coloured by a 'butterfly' pattern across the back.  The ears and nose are coloured and there is a white 'flash' between the nose and forehead.

Boys are photographed against a brown background; girls are photographed against grass.

The boys are photographed against a brown background and girls are photographed against grass.  

Because the babies are so young and we don't like to remove them from their nest for more than a few seconds, sexing has been undertaken very quickly - via a quick glance, so is not definite at this stage.  I estimate their sexing to be only about 90% accurate and the babies will be re-checked when they're a little older.

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