New Litter's and a Hard decision.

Well I shall start at the beginning, the 28th Miss Sunburn kindled a litter of Four Red's on looking them over I noticed one normal sized kit, one smaller kit now I know to be a runt and two really tiny ones that now i know are peanuts. I was excited for her to finally kindle because last time i bred her we got nothing. So Off i went to work, on coming back I saw that Miss Strawberry had kindled as well Three Reds and she too had one normal and two peanuts. Really bummed at this moment i knew that I should just be thankful for live kits and not DOA's like i have had in my previous litter's.

Yesterday night I found Berry's two peanuts with missing back limbs, she was starting to kill them because she knew they were not normal. Still alive I had my husband put them down humanely, and I put Sun's strongest kit up with Berry so that just maybe the others would have a chance.

Well was I wrong. Because the biggest kit was missing, Sun fed the Runt and completely ignored the two peanuts which I figured. Woke up this morning to find them all cold, one Peanut dead, the other close, and the run cold but still strong. I got the two surviving warm and transferred them to Berry to care for, but of course being the very doting mother she is, accepted the runt but did not accept the remaining peanut and was going to  kill it, so Now came the hard decision!

People may find this funny, I'm a hunter in training as my husband will call me, as of to this day I have killed one animal. And here I had in front of me a Kit that needed to be put down, I knew as a responsible rabbit breeder I need to do the deed myself and stop passing it off to my husband.

So I did it and knowing that it needed to be done I feel okay with that decision. In order to save litters I need to learn to cull out the weak and save the strong.

I'll update the three remaining after The new year.

Here's to 2012 a new year!