Could me messing with the last baby be the reason it's alive?
We had an ACTUAL oops litter due to a misgendering during a period of me staying at my sisters that i never caught and a very short period of the two buns being together while pens were being cleaned(i did not approve it, the kids did it while I was at work, but what happened happened.)
Every other baby died because the mom is of course new and careless. There's a single baby tho i kept using for my health checks to see if she was feeding them(she was the others tho got crushed from her jumping around and them having buried themselves in the bedding from the looks of it) this one is thriving and fat. Changing the bedding tomorrow to something else to prevent these accidents with the last one just incase but this one is thriving and doing well and it's the only one i handled. I handled it with gloves to try to keep my scent off.
She watches me do the health checks from inside the pen and takes the baby back when i hand it back. It's thriving so far. Planning on switching to white paper bedding tomorrow.
Posted May 1, 2026, 3:51 AM UTC