7 Weeks old

May 30th

Tomorrow on May 30th, the bunnies will be seven weeks old.
According to most of the research I've done, their mom will wean in them in about one week's time, and shortly after, she will decide not to have anything more to do with them. At that point, we will start removing them from the enclosure one or two at a time, a few days apart. This will allow Cuddles' milk to dry up naturally, and hopefully without causing her too much discomfort.

A few days ago, the bunnies accompanied me to work, where a coworker who is experienced in these things, helped me to assess the bunnies gender. Until the babies are around three months of age,  gender determination is only about 70% accurate, but it is the best that we can do considering we do not plan on keeping them for another five weeks.



We places a few drops of food colouring on the heads of four of the five kits, in an effort to tell them apart. Unfortunately, it did not work out as we had hoped.  some of the colours (green and blue) just did not show up as anything other than a smear on the fur of the darker ones, and the pink and purple ended up all over their feet. At least we know that the food colouring will not harm them at all.

 It appears that we have three bucks (males)

 and two does (females)

My oldest son will be keeping the light grey/brown doe (above) as his bunny companion.

Today, we had a visit from a couple who are already experienced bunny parents. They will be taking the other doe (the darker grey one above) as a companion for their neutered male bunny as soon as she is ready to leave Cuddles and her siblings.