BYC Café

[N F C]

Good morning

Morning! Did you by any chance bring more coffee? I need another cup please

 

[CapricornFarm]

Mornin', y'all!

@Treerooted - eons ago, when I was a kid, we lived for a few years in a community right where Lake Ontario turns into the St. Lawrence River. One year, my class took a field trip to a sugar bush, and all these years later, my mind conjures up the wood fires, the clouds of steam . . . . Neat stuff!



Rabbits don't generally do this. Probably because their ancestors gave birth at the bottom end of a tunnel, most rabbits seem to lack the instincts to deliberately move the babies around. Momma hops into the box, and the babies crawl to her to nurse. When she leaves, the babies crawl together under the nest material. Sometimes one crawls the wrong way, and winds up in a corner, away from the others. With new litters, I check boxes a couple of times a day for those sorts of stragglers; a baby that winds up there more than once seems to lack the proper instincts to find the others, and probably won't survive. A kit outside of the box may have hung on and gotten pulled out when Mom left, or crawled out on its own, but the mother almost always lacks the instinct to pick it up and put it back where it belongs.

Baby rabbits getting chilled is so common, we even have the term "Lazarus babies" for the ones that were so cold, they seem to come back from the dead.

Hence the saying you are not dead until you are warm and dead.
The bunny didn't survive sadly.

 

[N F C]

Hence the saying you are not dead until you are warm and dead.
The bunny didn't survive sadly.

Sorry to hear that Cap, poor little guy.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Morning! Did you by any chance bring more coffee? I need another cup please

Just perked a fresh pot. Help yourself

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Hence the saying you are not dead until you are warm and dead.
The bunny didn't survive sadly.

 

[N F C]

Just perked a fresh pot. Help yourself

Thank you kindly

 

[Bunnylady]

Hence the saying you are not dead until you are warm and dead.
The bunny didn't survive sadly.

I'm sorry. I looked long and hard at the picture, but I couldn't decide - might it have been a "peanut?'

 

[CapricornFarm]

I'm sorry. I looked long and hard at the picture, but I couldn't decide - might it have been a "peanut?'

I think she had them early. But it was one of the smaller ones. Idk how to decide if they are peanuts?

 

[ronott1]

Morning! Did you by any chance bring more coffee? I need another cup please

I just brewed some!

 

[Bunnylady]

I think she had them early. But it was one of the smaller ones. Idk how to decide if they are peanuts?

Any time you breed two animals with the dwarfing gene together, you can get peanuts. That's one nice thing about the "false dwarfs" (I've also heard them called "brood does" or even "big ugly does"); they don't have the dwarfing gene, so they can't have peanuts (so, by the process of elimination, if the doe isn't a true dwarf, or not a dwarf breed, her babies can't be peanuts).

A peanut looks a bit odd. Someone I know dubbed them "camel babies" because she thought the head resembled that of a camel. The skull is often rather domed, and the eyes may be a bit more prominent than a normal baby. The back end of the peanut usually looks a bit underdeveloped, and it may not have control of the back legs. The most obvious difference is the size - a peanut is usually significantly smaller than the others in the litter, like, only about two-thirds their size.