Day Six - And Then There Were Three
Sadly we discovered that one of the babies had died. We wonder if he or she was dead yesterday and we thought he or she was just trying to hide in the dirt to get away from the light. All four were still alive on Day Four. Who knows if the rabbit suffocated by trying to go too deep and got covered by the other rabbits, if somehow all of the rain we got had something to do with it, or if it was just too weak and wouldn't have survived anyway.
The remaining rabbits look healthy. We had to take them out and place them next to the nest as we took out the dead rabbit. We didn't want the dead rabbit to start smelling or for the mom to neglect the other babies. Hopefully with one of them missing she won't wonder what happened. When the three babies were on the ground near their nest they were crawling around trying to find some shelter. They looked pleased to be back in the nest.
The babies continue to get bigger. Their ears are starting to get longer, stick out, and open up. Their eyes are still closed. I've read that they'll open between day six and ten, so we must have found the nest when they babies were just born or a day old.
Today Andrew held one of the babies for a photo. They look smaller in his hands compared to mine.
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