Five Fat Fluffy Fur balls :)

Hello everyone!

We have baby bunnies to share once again. 

They are three weeks old now and getting to the peak of adorableness :) 

Shall we introduce them?

We don't know their gender yet, but they still have been named :) 

Easter Bunnies!

What would Clever Bunnies be if we didn't get to post about baby bunnies every once and a while?

But since we don't have our own rabbits any more, and they've passed on to a few friends of ours, then we get to visit them, and share the cuteness with you.

Our friend Emma's doe Daisy had a litter a week before Easter with her new buck Demi. He is a grandson of our dear Sarah Jane, and was mistakenly called a girl in our Spring Break post last year!

Demi

Brooklyn's Beautiful Baby Bunnies

We interrupt our Doctor Who Party blog series to bring you a very important post....

Baby Bunnies!

Our friend Brooklyn's rabbit Ariel and our buck, Simon, had a litter together the beginning of October. We got to go for a visit last week, and it was a fun chance for photos.

Brooklyn and her bunnies.

A Quartet of Rabbits

If there's such a term as a trio of rabbits, then four must be considered a quartet.

It goes to figure, right?

Well, that's exactly what Sarah Jane had yesterday morning!

Four baby bunnies!

Grandbunnies

Rember this pretty little lady? 

This is Daisy, from a litter we had last year. She went to the home of a friend of ours, Emma, who was also interested in raising rabbits.

So long, Khan!

Today is Khan's 6 week birthday, and tonight his new family came and picked him up.

 It's been strange having only one baby rabbit, but we've enjoyed our time with him and will be a bit sad to see him go. 

Just Visiting

Does anyone recognize this beautiful young lady?

It's been a bit since you've seen her last; think back to earlier this year....

She's Maid Marian! All grown up!

Her name isn't Marian any more, her new owner named her Ariel.

Becca is pet sitting Ariel this week, and to make it easier, she's staying at our house.

It's so fun to see our little babies all grown up and happy in their new homes.

Our Little Mushrooms...

Yep, that's our affectionate nickname for these little guys.

Sunbathing

They turned 3 weeks old today.

Mocha is unsure if she approves of them.

"What are you doing? Can't you hold still for a second?"

They're quite the little handfuls. :)

It's hard to be 100% sure, but we think we have 2 girls and a boy.

In the picture above, from left to right:

Toby, Donna, and Bonnie…

I think.

Actually, it could be: Bonnie, Donna, and Toby.

Donna is definitely the one in the middle, but Toby and Bonnie are a little harder to tell apart from the front (Toby is bigger).

Becca: "Yeah, I think Bonnie is on the left… the one on the right seems fatter..."

It's hard to believe we can tell them apart at all, isn't it?

They look like: Brown, brown and brown.

But, if you look very closely, Donna is more red/brown, Toby is grey/brown, and Bonnie is darker grey/brown.

 Becca has decided that Donna is the most beautiful. 

We try not to play favorites, but I think Donna gets more hugs. :)

Ups and Downs

Austin and Mama Stormy: September 2011

Becca and I love raising rabbits.

Having baby rabbits, watching them grow from blind, helpless little kits, to fluffy little balls of energy in only a matter of weeks has to one of the neatest miracles of God's creation to watch.

But with ups, come downs.

Our "up" today was that Sarah Jane had a healthy litter of four kits!

They're hiding in all the fur. :)

Sarah Jane

Our "down" was that Rosie was due today also,
but two weeks ago she died of natural causes.

We are pretty sad.

 Rosie was such a sweet rabbit, and a good mama

We will miss her

Rosie

March 2012-March 5th 2014

Baby Rosie

A Very Special Day...

The baby bunnies are three weeks old today!

No, the little cutie above is not Peter Pan.

He's Robin Hood!

Well actually, that one's Will Scarlet.

Everyone has a name from Robin Hood, shall we introduce you?

This one is Much. He did not want to wear the hat. :)

He is a beautiful broken lynx.

Here is Alice

Before we could tell boys from girls, 

we had been calling her Little John because she was the biggest baby.

Her coloring is broken blue.

Will 

(again)

He and his brother Luke are both broken opal.

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Luke and Much tasting their hats

Maid Marian

Isn't she darling with her little pink nose? (I think she's our favorite)

She is a broken castor.

Kate

We thought this one would be Robin, but she turned out to be a girl.

She is a tri-color, like Rosie.

Now for Sarah Jane's litter!

Who could be wearing such a dashing vest?

 Is it Han Solo?

Meet Guy, Isabelle, and Archer Meg.

"Do I really have to wear this? I feel ridiculous!"

We thought the black vest would be a good costume for Guy, but he didn't agree.

Guy and Archer Meg are both castors like papa, Simon.

 Isabelle is solid black with white toes on her right front paw.

The three week birthday of our rabbits isn't the only reason this is a special day….

It is also the,

1 year anniversary of Clever Bunnies Blog!

Isn't that exciting? 

Becca and I have really enjoyed having a blog; being able to share the things we are doing with friends and family, and meeting new friends as well!

Allan's Last Adventures

By Becca

The baby rabbits have been trying out their little legs, which gets a bit scary when the homemade cages that they live in have rather large gaps between the wires.
 The cages work fine for the adult rabbits, but the babies are nearly five times smaller then their parents and they see the holes as nice doorways to the outside world.. :)
I watched one of Rosie's kits jump through one such portal yesterday when I was cleaning her cage.  The fat little baby scrambled around the cement floor a moment before I scooped it up and put him back in the nest.  I blocked off the holes with a few pieces of cardboard and kept cleaning.
So that night, when Dad called up from the basement saying that he had found a kit over by the floor drain,  I expected to see him holding one of Rosie's adventurous kits, and it was one of her's…but surprisingly it was the runt.

(Just a note:  we can't tell the gender of the kits yet but we still call them 'he' or 'she' and  tentatively name them, the runt we call Allan.  

Those of you who have watched season two of BBC's Robin Hood might know why, it has nothing to do with his size, it's because of where he is…)

I could hardly believe it.  I'm not being funny, but this little guy walks like a drunk man- he can hardly walk two steps without tumbling onto his side.  How on earth did he make it all the way over there!?!

The floor was wet near the drain.  Allan must have taken a tumble and was laying on his side when Dad found him.
 Now, a wet rabbit is a sorry sight, but a little runt who already has enough problems in his life and then wanders off and falls in a puddle = sadness.  The fireplace was turned on and I wrapped Allan in a dishtowel to dry him off.  His body was cold and his breathing was shallow, thankfully his nose was dry so at least he hadn't inhaled any water. I sat by the fire and rubbed his damp fur with the towel, trying to warm the shivering kit.  Soon his breathing normalized and he wiggled around, getting into a more comfortable position.
 He looked pretty funny, half his body a mess of wet spiky fur; the other half was dry and soft, perfectly normal.

Mom heated up some goat's milk for him and I fed him with a dropper while our family watched T.V.

 Once he was dry, warm, and had some milk in his tummy I snuggled him back into the nest with his foster siblings, and Beth put up cardboard walls to block his escape routes.

Guess who Dad found near the floor drain this morning?

Yeah… it was Allan.  He must of missed me :)
So during our morning Bible time, I was sitting next to the fire warming Allan up. He was dry this time, but a lone baby bunny on a cold basement floor still gets chilly pretty quick.  When we returned the little runaway home we looked around Sarah Jane's cage to see how he got out. We thought all exits where pretty well covered, but there was a gap under the water bottle. All he had to do was hoist himself over the side of tray, and drop though his escape hatch onto the floor.
 Now with every opening blocked off , we hope Allan will be a good little rabbit and stay safe and warm at home.

Who would of known that this little squirt would have such a big adventure?

Postscript (1-24-14): Allan was found by Dad this morning, out of the nest box, dead.  Sarah Jane was hovering over him, licking him, trying to revive him… we knew he would've gone sooner or later.  We were surprised that he had made it two weeks, he was so small and abnormal, but he certainly tried to make up for it…  
"Him, I liked."

Feelin' Groovy

                          

Rosie's Kits

How to hypnotize a baby rabbit.

#1. Lay them on their back, and gently stroke their tummy until they fall asleep.

#2. Set them down very slowly, and...

…Ta-da!

Sarah Jane's kits + foster kit.

Well, our little runt is still alive, but is much smaller then his siblings. We will just have to wait and see how things turn out for him.

The most exciting thing is that most everyone has their eyes open!

Next milestone: leaving the nest box.