Yesterday, a visit to another rabbit breeder's rabbitry, Jessica's, was fun. We went over most of her bunnies and even bred a few. Hope she got them all written down. Looking over bunnies at shows is nice but in the more relaxed atmosphere of a rabbitry gives you more time to evaluate without distractions. She is working on the black otters a bit.
One of the kits born last week still had the afterbirth attached to the umbilical cord. Bunny midwife time that requires one carefully aimed cut since those little hind legs are just a-motoring. I don't know who squirmed more, me or baby bunny?! I learned in the previous blog mention of the vet's book more about newborns. It's amazing how the umbilical artery shuts off right after delivery. If it didn't, the mother would bleed out. On the kit's "end" of the cord, the arteries on the inside become round ligaments of the bladder and the umbilical vein becomes the faliform ligament of the liver.
Yesterday, a visit to another rabbit breeder's rabbitry, Jessica's, was fun. We went over most of her bunnies and even bred a few. Hope she got them all written down. Looking over bunnies at shows is nice but in the more relaxed atmosphere of a rabbitry gives you more time to evaluate without distractions. She is working on the black otters a bit.
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