Salt & Peppa was mated to Jack and had 5 babies on Tuesday, 5/15: Sadly, one died about a week later, as the baby made it's way out of the nest box during the night and onto the wire cage where is was simply too cold. The other 4 are fine; you can see them in the first picture below. YES, these 4 are from the same litter - notice the size differences! As you can image the smallest one has a very tough time competing for mom's milk. The others are just too big and bully her out of the way. As a result we've moved to plan 'B', see the second picture below, which is to hold mom on her back and let the little one go to town and that is exactly what she does!
Abbey was mated to Loppy and had 2 babies on Wednesday 5/16. Both of her little ones are doing fine. Their eyes are open and they've begun to move about the cage.
Salt & Peppa's young'in from largest to smallest -
Here is me holding Abbey on her back and letting the runt of Salt & Peppa litter nurse. Salt & Peppa just doesn't have enough milk, perhaps because of the other fatties of hers but Abbey does. However, Abbey does NOT like when we do this; she's finicky anyways. In any event the runt is doing just fine and getting bigger and stronger.
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You are such a good surrogate mom to the baby!!
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