This year, we decided to spend Thanksgiving in Vegas with Jesse’s family, and then move on to my Dad’s for the next couple days before coming home. We were able to get Jesse’s awesome niece to come and watch over the animals, especially the rabbits. Why especially, you ask? Because our maybe-pregnant doe was set to give birth while we were away. Also, one of the bucks goes through water like he’s never going to drink it again and we don’t have an auto top-off system for where they are currently housed.
The drive to Vegas was fairly uneventful. We caravanned with my sister for a ways and then lost track of her but met back up at the casino later on. We decided to go to the buffet for dinner, and some of Velvet’s friends from town joined us. The company was great, the buffet…not so much. Seriously, there is a lack of great buffets it seems.
We decided to play bingo later on because we wanted to win the big bucks. We left all the kids together like a mini slumber party and went down to play. None of us won anything, but it was still fun. We played the slots awhile after that and after I was down $30 decided I’d had enough. We collected the kiddo and conked out for the night.
The next day we had a few hours to kill because we didn’t have our reservation until 1pm. The restaurant was actually a Mexican food place but every dining place there allowed the patrons a choice of a turkey dinner. I’m not too sure which of the restaurants actually cooked the turkey dinner, but I know they served it at all locations. Anyway, the funny thing is that not one of us ordered the Thanksgiving turkey dinner! Everyone ordered something Mexican, and it was quite tasty.
After lunch we all said our goodbyes and headed out to Dad’s house in Lake Havasu. It’s not a far drive from Vegas so we made pretty good time. There was a small roadside stand with raw honey for sale, and you all know how I love to A) support local industry and farmer’s markets and B) buy raw honey from different locations, so we purchased a small jar of honey.
At the house, we decided that we would celebrate Thanksgiving the next day, so we just snacked it up and hung out, then went to bed.
Friday morning was a leisurely affair.
Friday afternoon was beautiful and the girls and Ezra swam a few times.
Lunch was supposed to happen around 1pm but ended up being closer to 4pm. It was delicious! Dad learned how to brine a turkey this year, and I swear by brining.
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I’m looking forward to when all the turkeys are reduced in price so we can snap up a couple and freeze them for later.
Saturday comes and I get a call from Jesse’s niece that our rabbit had pulled a bunch of fur. She was going to have babies, and soon! Finally I thought to ask if she had lifted the fur to see if there were already babies underneath. Revelation! There were kits in there! She wasn’t sure how many there were, maybe 4-6, and they were squirmy and squeaky and they jumped around a lot.
I knew that would happen! When we went on vacation this summer, our chickens began laying eggs while we were gone, and this same niece was the one who found the first eggs! She is good luck when it comes to the reproduction of our animal stock:)
Of course, on Sunday I was very eager to get home so I could see the new arrivals for myself and figure out how many we had. The trip back home seemed much longer than the one to Vegas. To start out, there was an accident on the I15 and they shut down both lanes for about 45 minutes. Jesse’s folks and brother were able to take a different route and bypassed all the backed-up cars, but we decided to just ride it out. We met up with Velvet and kids for lunch, and then lost track of them after that. We finally made it home around 9pm and I checked on the kits. It looked like there were eight of them, four light and four dark. They looked only somewhat thin, but I was freaking out about it. I checked the next morning and they did not have full bellies, so I decided to bring mama and babies in. We put mama on her back and placed the kits on her teats. Rabbits kind of go into a trance when they’re on their backs. She did really well, all things considered, but it didn’t seem like any milk was being expressed.
Checked the buns this morning and during my routine saw mama had jumped in the box with the babies. She was in there for several minutes before she got out again, and I saw that many of the kits had round bellies. I bought kitten milk replacement just in case and tried it just now but the kits didn’t seem overly interested in eating, just snoozing, so I figure she must be taking care of them. We took each one out and took photos today and I saw this darkish shape pressed against the side and at first I thought it was a stick but quickly realized it was a dead kit. And really, why would there have been a stick in there? Seems to have been dead for quite some time, so my original kit count was off by one; she had nine, not eight. But now she has just the eight. All in all I think my fears were unfounded and she seems to be doing well for a first-time mother. As an aside, handling the dead kit was totally disgusting. I will spare you the photo we took of it.
Yesterday while I was messing around with the hutches I decided to try breeding the blue rex doe with the chocolate rex buck again. I put her in there and BAM! Bred. I saw about four fall offs and I left her in there with him while I was out and about so I’m sure he got her more than just the times I saw. She appeared pretty prosaic about it. Looking at my calendar, that puts her due date around January 2nd, and a rebreeding scheduled for the first doe around January 14th. I put the other white doe in with the Cali buck yesterday, and she still wasn’t having any of it. Jesse has a couple weeks off soon for winter break, so we will probably butcher her then. In the meantime, I’ve put apple cider vinegar in all the water bottles because it’s supposed to boost health as well as increase libidos. So, if she will breed in the next week or so, she will get a stay of execution. And really, I’d rather she did breed because she has great body conformation, she’s like a meat brick.
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