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| The ducklings are hiding between the duck and the wood pile. |
Baby bunnies and ducks at last! Our mother bunny
had third litter and her first living litter
of surviving babies. The mother rabbit is named Sherry after my
Mom. We got Sherry the rabbit at the Livestock
show last year she was somebody's show rabbit that didn't make the
sale. The father rabbit named Buck after one of our best friends was given
to us at the Livestock Show last year also. Sherry had
five kits which are baby rabbits. Two of the kits passed
away but three of them lived which is our record. We used pillow batting for
the nesting box and some got wrapped around one of the babies’ foot
and it cut the circulation off so it lost the use of its paw. It is
very healthy and not in any pain but we are still going to take it to
the vet so it won't get infected. The baby bunnies’ favorite food is
greens from our garden.
We have not been
as blessed with the ducks as the rabbits. Two of our ducks
had laid twenty eggs in a nest and were trying to hatch them but a
snake got a few and some were rotten so only five eggs hatched. Three of the
ducklings disappeared and we don't know what happened. The next night we put
the two ducklings in the building. They survived a couple of
days and learned how to swim but then
they went missing.
I think a turtle might have ate them but I'm not sure.
Pictures above are taken by Laura Ashley ,my sister; Pictures below are taken by Dad.
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| Baby ducks are wet when they hatch. |
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