Jan 11 • Breeding, Showing & Type eval.
Tans
I have a few questions about Tans, they are my first breed that isn't a commercial breed and I want to make sure I am doing them justice. I have a trio, mom, dad, and one of their daughters. I have bred mom twice now, both times she had babies, the first it was a high of 15F and she didn't pull hair and they were gone. I lost 5 other litters that day as well sadly, only one of my Harlequins made a beautiful nest. So I rebred her. About a week before her due date I moved her to a larger pen with a nesting box full of straw and she was running around with straw and hay in her mouth for days. I came in around 9am to find her birthing the babies, came back around 11am to her eating a screaming baby thinking maybe something was wrong with it that I couldn't see, there were 3 warm in the nest. Came back around 1pm to the babies scattered in the nest cold. I was able to bring one back and a Harley is fostering that baby now. She continued to build the nest all day still. Are Tans more finicky? She didn't pull much fur at all but she's so little and doesn't have a lot of fur so is that normal? Will it be okay to have a commercial breed raising a running and smaller breed? Her daughter is almost 6 mths, when is it acceptable to breed Tans? Still working to get them a good place to run since I don't want them jumping off the table I have and being able to run away, no place outside is rabbit proof with escaping. Have had the daughter get loose a few times due to her feeder coming off and she'd come running back when her name was called and food can shook. Just feel like these guys are way different from my other breeds I feel like I'm not doing them any justice. Originally was just going to get one but found a good deal and decided on the trio.
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