Tollerado: April 2014

Wednesday 30 April 2014

Garden Update April 30th

tomato

bell pepper

Spinach

Onions

Mint

Blueberry

raspberry

apple tree

garlic

raspberry

Any time that I was not feeding baby rabbits, I have spend in the garden yesterday. It's been a warm day and I had to get started on weeding the garden. There are already peas, onions, carrots and fodder crops growing in the garden but that are just tiny bits the majority of work still had to be done. Due to the mild winter, the weeds are growing like weeds. I have finished with half the garden now, planted a few more peas, carrots, radish and onions. I will plant out the kohlrabi today and more carrots and some kale today. too. Then beans in 2 weeks, as well as cucumbers. Right now I am sure I am missing something but I am sure when I look a the seeds I will remember

Tuesday 29 April 2014

feeling tired

a few hours old

2 days old

4 days old

Maya gave birth to a little of 9 little one on Friday morning. I have been worried about this litter, since she didn't feed the babies of her last litter but I wanted to give her another chance. When I checked on Saturday, she had not fed them again. To cut a long story short, the babies are now in my office and I am hand feeding them every 4 hours. I have not been this exhausted in ages. The first day and a half it was difficult to get them to drink from a bottle/syringe and it took about 1.5 - 2 hours to feed all 9 of them. But they are learning quickly where the milk is coming from, now I am averaging at around an hour to 70 minutes. So far they are doing well, fingers crossed that this continues on. I had hopes that Mia would give birth last night and that I might be able to put 1-3 babies with her but she didn't have a litter so far and Beauty who is due on Friday is a first time mom and looks about ready to pop so, no chance to put one in with her.