Sunday, February 28, 2010

Moving into a new nexting box...


Yes these are jockey's fingers in comparison to their size. They are about 3" long.




All four of us has a part in building the nesting box, the boys even screwed in a few of the screws. Then we got it all ready and then transfered the babies to the new box. (They were at risk of wandering out of the old "nest" and getting too cold, getting hurt on the wire floor, or trampled into the wire mesh.)
So one by one we placed them into the nesting box. Yes, there are 8. So far to the untrained eye there aren't any obvious runts who won't survive, but time will tell. The boys are of course excited. Rosie seems to be doing just fine and is actually more mellow and friendly (nuzzling, greeting and eating out of our hands.)








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