Riven
Bad Chin
Tonight I found a kit in a cage, I thought it was dead, but when I picked it up realized it wasn't. I checked for more babies, none. The baby was a bit bigger than a newborn normally is, but not much, and seemed to be starving to death, so I immediately began giving small amounts of milk replacer.
The kit was sitting next to the female, but there were no signs of birth at all. So I checked her and she is heavy with kits and did not just litter, so I checked everyone in that run ( kind of tedious with 12 females in that run, lol ) and learned that every female open to that male is bred... but none had recently littered.
So I was trying to figure out where this kit came from and I remembered I had a female pop her door open on Friday ( it was catch chins day all the way around actually ) and her trips were lost during that. I searched all over but couldn't find them. I am guessing this is one of the them, right fur and color and all. So right now we're doing the hand feeding, I have a couple females with kits ready to wean that I can try to foster her too, at this point it looks like she'll be cruising along to school with me... unless she's doing really good by morning. The escapee female has no milk, not suprising since she escaped the day after her kits were born, she didn't have a lot of time to build up a large supply.
So what this saga is all about is... has anyone had a kit survive two days without mom as a 2-3 day old?
She was lying there, dead like, now she is sitting up and tries to move around. If she makes it through the night I'll have hope for her, but hopefully her GIT isn't too messed up from no food.
The kit was sitting next to the female, but there were no signs of birth at all. So I checked her and she is heavy with kits and did not just litter, so I checked everyone in that run ( kind of tedious with 12 females in that run, lol ) and learned that every female open to that male is bred... but none had recently littered.
So I was trying to figure out where this kit came from and I remembered I had a female pop her door open on Friday ( it was catch chins day all the way around actually ) and her trips were lost during that. I searched all over but couldn't find them. I am guessing this is one of the them, right fur and color and all. So right now we're doing the hand feeding, I have a couple females with kits ready to wean that I can try to foster her too, at this point it looks like she'll be cruising along to school with me... unless she's doing really good by morning. The escapee female has no milk, not suprising since she escaped the day after her kits were born, she didn't have a lot of time to build up a large supply.
So what this saga is all about is... has anyone had a kit survive two days without mom as a 2-3 day old?
She was lying there, dead like, now she is sitting up and tries to move around. If she makes it through the night I'll have hope for her, but hopefully her GIT isn't too messed up from no food.
