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Breeders => General Breeder Chat => Topic started by: Jhenderson27 on July 16, 2010, 09:39:40 PM
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The babies are due tomorrow as the gestation calculator says. We are going nuts in this house. We just want her to give the babies up. She is so torturing the heck out of us. When does everyone think they will arrive. We have felt some crazy soccer style kicking by the babies.....our mommy's poor insides are all over :) We feel bad that her and Titan cant be in the same cage and they both look so bummed. Its for the best and just in case the babies come when we aren't home. Well back to being a wreck waiting for the babies.
Justin
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haha i totally sympathise! mine's due on the 26th and i'm itching all over!! let us know when they turn up!
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WE HAVE BABIES!!!!!!!!!
::silly:: ::silly::
2 babies are fresh right now, moms doing her job with cleanup, a very successful safe birth here. Good sized kits, I will do a weigh-in when I get home at 3 from work. Im gonna give our girl her space and let her do her thing. From an early guess the appearance of the babies would be 2 white mosaics. Both peeping and running about. Right now they just crawled under mom and are getting a drink.
The house just went from 4 to 6. ;) Daddy is right up at the cage seeing and smelling them and wanting to love them. How soon can they become acquainted with the father?
I will have more info in a few hours when I get home.
Good luck with yours!
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Check that, mom just moved and we have 3. I just noticed a big standard grey in the corner and the 2 mosaics.
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pictures pictures pictures pictures! that must be a nice surprise - two... oh no! it's three! yay :)
awwww i would love to have a multicoloured litter! mum's grey and dad was pink white - the first lot was triplets, all beige!
i'm playing a ridiculous game where i'm guessing what we're going to have. so i think because there were three of them the first time, we'll either have 3 or 4 and i think we'll have 1 pink white, 2 wilson white or mosaic and 1 grey. it's just silliness, i know but if i get it right, i'm better than the psychic octopus!
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I had to jet out of work early today, I just had to get home and see them. Right now they are nursing so I don't want to interrupt them and take them away from mom. I dont have the sexes of the babies yet but we got a very quick weight of them.
The mosaics are 56g and 58g, while the standard gray is a 53g or 54g. He wasn't as apt as his siblings to let me weigh them. He seems to be the runt so we are going to give him the most time with mom and rotate the others as there were a little squabbling at first for some milk. Now all 3 are nursing fine. Until there is problems we wont step in but if there is we are ready in the waiting.
I will have some pics in a few hours. I will get some nice ones for everyone to enjoy as much as we are.
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haha, i said to my boss that he may get a phone call one morning to say that the babies have arrived which means, i'm not coming in! my boss is super understanding, thankfully :)
those are some fab weights! how much weight did she put on during pregnancy? fluffy's stopped putting weight on at the start of july, but i can feel vigorous movement so hopefully that's not bad news.
looking forward to the pictures!
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Since we got her and her mate a month ago shes put on about 125g. So well i expect to see her in the low 800g's or high 700g's.
Movement means you will be given the joy of babies soon. Be ready they are a handful already.
So proud here!
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aww, i know, isn't it amazing that they're so active so soon after being born? it is a very proud moment, isn't it? i kept looking at fluffy and chinchi and kept saying 'they're theirs they're theirs! how amazing is that?'
our first lot had to be hand fed the first couple of weeks because fluffy had mastitis and couldn't nurse but we managed. hopefully this time she'll have a more enjoyable time - and we get more sleep ;)
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So here are the pics
We have Stripe (white mosaic boy, 57g, white stripe up forehead) He got his name after the evil gremlin in well Gremlins. Looks like a bad mohawk.
Next we have the Standard Gray( Standard, boy, 53g)
Last we have another mosaic named Puff (White Mosaic, boy, 56g)
All are very pretty and lovable and back sleeping with mommy.
Enjoy and lemme know what you think!
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aww they're adorable! stripe looks like a baby badger! the standard grey boy is gorgeous and puff is very handsome - i love his multicoloured tail!
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i wrote in your other thread too.. but i just wanted to ask.. since you said you adopted them.. are they originally from a breeder?
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Yes, they were bought from a hobby breeder in MI. This is where they lived originally. The previous owners bought them as a mated pair at 1.25 years of age. They have been together since then and this would be their second litter.
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::bouncyball:: CONGRATS
They are gorgeous ::kiss99::
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Oh they are absolutley adorable. The first mosaic reminds me of one I raised Peeps, her parents died when she was a week old. I had to recently had to put her to sleep, hardest thing I ever had to do. It looks just like her as a kit, she was 7years old.
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They are beautiful! ::silly::
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::silly:: OMG..they are absolutely gorgeous, adorable....oh my how I would love to hug and kiss them!!! Please give them some loving from Aunt Blondy!! hehe..how sweet they are!!! ;D ;)
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Sweet, they are the rat pack, they terrorize us and we love it. We get squeaked at if they don't get picked up EVERY-TIME we walk past the cage. No matter if its only been 5 min since we last played with them. But on a positive note we coulnd't be happier, they are awesome, healthy, a ton of fun and they just are all so cute and fluffy. We couldn't ask for a better experience with a pregnancy. Ebbie and Titan are both fantastic parents. They gave us some good healthy kits and now its our job to raise and torture them with love for years to come. We decided we are gonna keep the 3 boys from this first litter since it was our first. I keep telling mine self no more no more but well see ;).
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Aww! You're so lucky! Congrats! (not sure how old this is)
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aww, that is so sweet they like to be picked up! the only one of my lot that likes to be picked up is spock - and he is the one we didn't have to hand feed - ffynn who was getting fed every two hours for weeks & pippi who actually took the bottle when fed are not keen on being picked up at all! we thought it'd be the other way!
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j, any chance of pictures? i'd love to see what they look like now, especially stripe!
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Yah Ill snap a few tonight and get them up.