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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2014 22:09:40 GMT -5
GOSH they are cute! Keep with the updates! I would love to see these lil ones grow up. What do you raise them for? I'm hoping to get a show prospect or two out of this litter. Mainly I raise them for their wool. Satin angoras shed about four times a year, which makes collecting the fur to spin quite simple. Just comb 'em! They can also be a meat breed but my hubby isn't down with eating rabbit. Any youngsters that don't survive, though, will go to the ferrets. Beats letting them go to waste. I am spamming every group I'm in with these guys. LOL I love showing them off.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2014 10:44:32 GMT -5
Wow, the parents are gorgeous. It must be amazing to watch them grow up. I hope you keep posting pictures. (dance)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2014 15:28:20 GMT -5
Here are the babies today. Four days old (counting from Sunday night), the white one is looking more white and less pink, everybody is shiny and wiggly and I had no idea baby rabbits would be so LOUD!!! They assume anything that touches them has milk for them, so my hands are getting nuzzled when I touch them, and my heart just melts every time. Their ears are starting to unclamp from their heads. One of them has very wide ears, pretty sure it's going to look like a satellite dish as it gets bigger. Mama Nougat wanted her picture taken too, she licked the camera. LOL This is Kiva, the doe who lives upstairs from Nougat. She was bred before I got her, but it didn't take, or she'd have babies the same age as Nougat's. (bred the same day) I'm hoping that when I rebreed her, she'll have a litter like her first one. Seven babies with each a different color. She's jealous that any other rabbit is getting attention. At ALL. LOL Kiva the Diva.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2014 15:29:41 GMT -5
Wow, the parents are gorgeous. It must be amazing to watch them grow up. I hope you keep posting pictures. (dance) I absolutely will. Y'all are going to be sick of them by the time their eyes open!
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Post by mjbez on Nov 7, 2014 21:37:30 GMT -5
Aww they are cuter all the time!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2014 3:59:42 GMT -5
I LOVE Friday's picture. Pinky is getting more white, and the Browns are all looking very rich chocolate. All have fat happy milk bellies! Look at these little noses and toes...I want to kiss them all. Gotta wait at least til their eyes open to do that, though.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2014 16:20:32 GMT -5
beautiful!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2014 12:52:24 GMT -5
Here's a link to today's video of the babies. Not great quality, but you get to see a couple up close and watch them squirm. No grunting today, they're getting calmer when I pick them up now. Also momma Nougat says hello! www.facebook.com/video.php?v=863583713682073&l=6300746578652474007I know Facebook videos don't embed here, so I just linked it. It's public, you should be able to see it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2014 14:01:51 GMT -5
Oooh! Nougat is so sweet! Sam, the bunny I had growing up, was soooo mean. He bit and kicked and scratched anytime you went near him.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2014 21:01:44 GMT -5
Oooh! Nougat is so sweet! Sam, the bunny I had growing up, was soooo mean. He bit and kicked and scratched anytime you went near him. Angoras are usually a docile, friendly breed. They have to be with all the grooming! When I was a kid we had this little dwarf rabbit that was completely evil though. Stomping, biting, clawing, the works. Little psycho. Makes me really appreciate the sweetness of the angoras!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2014 23:16:04 GMT -5
Mine was a lop I think? Big with floppy ears. He chewed on a wire and after that turned a little psycho O.O I just want to snuggle little nougat :3 she's so fluffy
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 4:39:50 GMT -5
Nougat isn't even my sweetest rabbit. LOL That would be Sophie! She's a German Angora / Satin Angora hybrid. Best of both worlds, big poofy spinnable hair that I don't have to shave off. Sophie is in full molt right now, so she's getting a LOT of grooming. She's content to sit on my lap for the hour or more that it takes per combing session. She nuzzles and snuggles and is just plain cuddly, much more so than most rabbits! This is after I've spent hours stripping down her coat. LOL I like this much better than the sheared look she was wearing when i got her! For comparison, this is when I first got her...She'd been sheared the day before I got her. Sophie also has beautiful greenish-grey eyes instead of the usual brown or red. I'm looking into getting Sophie registered as a therapy pet. She loves everyone and is so calm when held, that I really think the patients at the nursing home where I work would adore her.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 10:59:12 GMT -5
She is lovely! and agreed that the combing looks better than the shears! She looks so homely in that last pic haha
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2014 13:32:57 GMT -5
I know, right? LOL She knew, too. I'd get the side-eye like that every time I took a picture until her coat started growing back. On the plus side, I did get a good look at her body type. which can be tricky when they're all wooly! It's cold and windy so today's pics are action shots. The babies were like, umm, no, we're not coming out of our warm bed for you! They had a major growth spurt the other day, and their eyes should be opening in the next few days. They're all fat with big ol' heads right now! I'm calling them Pinky and the Browns until further notice. On paper, they'll be the Diva litter. Monroe, Hepburn, Taylor, Loren, Harlow, and Tierney. No name assigned to a particular bunny yet. I picked up this brown and it DOVE back into the nest. Also, you can see Pinky's ear. LOL Pinky's fat little head. Blurry. LOL It wanted to get back in the nest too! All tucked in and warm! Just after this pic was taken, they sank further in and the fur in the nest closed over them. It's like, fluffy quicksand!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2014 13:36:15 GMT -5
the closer they get to being able to run around, the harder it gets to photograph them. LOL One just chills right out when I hold it and rub it's head with my thumb. Of course that's not the one I took pictures of. LOL These two decided to go looking for mama. She hopped in and then hopped back out, and they were just like, "Where'd she go?" In a couple more days when their eyes open it's gonna be like a tiny jailbreak in there. They may wait a few extra days to start playing since it's so cold though.
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