Until today, I have resisted the incredibly growing urge to hold a baby. The only handling that I have done is just very careful kit checks to make sure they were all still alive and feeding properly. My reasoning for limiting the interaction, including taking pictures, is that I wanted to lessen the stress in their earliest days so that survival success could be at it's greatest.But since Wednesday, two different babies on two separate occasions have crawled (or held onto Mom's tit) out of their "nesting" box. A box that is simply the potty box with hay that she birthed them in. She was, of course, not eliminating in it, but instead using one corner of her cage that I later placed another potty box in.
So after observing the resilience of those two kits in a new situation, (i.e. the cage floor) and seeing that they are just beginning to peep their little eyes open; I decided that today I would hold a bunny! I chose the one wearing socks because he or she was one of the two that began exploring its way out of the nesting box in the first place. Also he or she was one of the first to begin opening its eyes.
I may begin taking more and more pictures as the days pass and their growing and changing will begin to take off. For now, I am feeling her success as I observe the six kits are well nourished and still alive from such a young mom.
They are somewhere between 7-9 days old.
