Day 4: Snickers has successfully taken over her duties

without my guidance, encouragement or any intervention. She's a good mommy!

The babies have each gained 1/2 ounce since birth. I'm pretty certain the runt is not a peanut as he remains active and has achieved the highest growth rate with a 33% gain, from 1.5 ounces Thursday evening to 2 ounces today. The next up is 2.5 ounces, then 5 range from 2.75 to 3 ounces. The biggest is now a hefty 3.5 ounces and was trying to hop on the walk up to the house and while being checked out and weighed. Activity levels seem directly correlated to weight.

I've confirmed the pink baby will most likely be fawn, with red also possible although she looks too light at this point for red. I've named her?, in the cookie tradition, Nilla.

Until today, I was reluctant to name the runt, for fear he'd? turn out to be a peanut. Given his progress so far, I feel hopeful enough to dub him Keebler, after the elf.

First meals

Friday morning there was still no sign the babies had been fed. In the early afternoon I headed into the bunny stall to check on the babies. I had barely registered that Snickers was positioned on top of the nest and, before I could begin to back out, she'd jumped out. So I went ahead and spent a few minutes scritching her and vowed to leave them alone until evening.

That evening they still were unfed, so I positioned Snickers over them and distracted her with a couple pieces of lettuce. Within seconds the babies were squiggling around underneath her. They fed for at good 5 minutes, and then she groomed them quickly and left the nest. Most had full bellies, but the 2 smallest looked like they hadn't gotten enough. I weighed them in: the smallest was only 1.5 ounces. The rest ranged from 2 to 2.5 ounces

So Saturday morning, I put her on them again. Only a couple suckled for a couple minutes.

This evening I weighed them in again. My kitchen scale is not terribly precise, but the smallest weighed in at 1.75 ounces. The biggest was close to 3 ounces. Tonight they fed for less time than their first meal, but all bellies look good.

In the meantime, I saw this morning that they're now covered with peach fuzz. The grey babies have charcoal to black fuzz. The pink one is not white as I half expected, but coming in a lovely gold. I have no idea what she? will mature to...