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Breeders => New Births => Topic started by: trista on August 11, 2008, 01:06:05 AM
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On August 8th my very first litter of kits were born ;) to my Mosaic female - Peekers and my Beige (Homo) male - Boo. They are gorgeous!
The first born was a male. He looks to be a PW, but he has a marking over one eye and on his back, which makes me wonder - will he be a golden mosaic? Any help with that would be nice! We'll see as he gets older.
Then there is the female. She is a really pretty Beige (het. of course)
Peekers is doing a great job with the mothering and Boo is below them so he gets to still see them run around.
They weighed 45.5g at birth and the little girl is already up to 70.9g and the male is at 49.7g :::grins::
The pictures below:
The one in my hand is the female
The one on the bed is the male
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So precious!! ::nod::
You really won't be able to tell what color they are until they get to be a few months old. It seems like they will change every day!
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Yeah, already the little girl seems to look darker today than she did that first day - ha!
I have been watching one grow (he's from a breeder about 10 min from me). When he was born he was all splotchy (a white mosaic) and a few weeks later he was half black and half white! So funny! I'm excited to see how they turn out, but especially the male because he has those little subtle markings at the moment that will change with time.
Now I just have to decide next if I want to breed again with the two of them (the parents) or if I want to neuter him.
We shall see!
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Congratulations! ;)
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Congrats!! :::grins::