Easter babies 4 w old

 

Superproud mommy!

New week, and the happy 9 are 4 w old. The 2 smallest are still very tiny, but I am crossing fingers every day.

Alot has happened the few last days. I noticed pee in the birthbox, so then it was time to find the baby toilets. 

Last evening before the transformation :

It's great to be a small family Cattery where everyone can be together. The other 3 adults are not laying with the kittens, but love to visit the kitten run, and taste Lily's restaurant. It is just Mocha,Billie and Sassy beside Lily , and it is such harmony. Online "TV" , watch and learn - in end of May Sassy and Billie will join the motherhood. 

After the makeover , the kitten run looked like this :

The biggest bed in the house, actually a dogbed. But then I came to the dessision it was too big at the moment.  Smaller bed , sorry Lily :D 

And since then, I changed it to blankets , but today I gave her another bigger bed. A soft type, mommy-Lily demandet.

Since last evening all 9 are eating a little raw. I am amazed they understood it right away. Not any heavy eaters yet, but every day it will be better, so they don't "eat their mommy alive". 

Today some of them have used the toilet, for nr 1 and nr 2. And some on the floor.  Their favorite toilet is of course the smallest one. And the more kittens in the small toilet at the same time, the cosier.... LOL.  I normally don't use it very long, but because of the 2 small I have to deal with it.  Hopefully I can put at least 1 big adult toilet there in a week. 

Since it is Tuesday , it have been picture-day out in the Wintergarden.

The girls :

And the boys :

We are so happy with all 9 , they are developing very promising.  There are one favorite , tough. I prefer non-dilutions , but this time I really could wish the creme boy was a girl :D  Sadly we don't need him in our breeding programme.

He is such a lovebug!

And the whole gang, the short hours the big bed was available :

I am cossing fingers all 9 get litter trained very fast, then they will get alot of new toys. But for now they are happy to have eachother.

All the kittens are still in option . Around 6 w of age, we probably know a bit more.

Easter babies 3 w old

 

Today LA and Lily's babies are 3 weeks old. So now my patience begins with weekly fotoes :D 

All 9 are growing and thrives, and they are more and more interested in the world outside the birthbox. But still it is safest inside. In a week it will probably change.  They are still in the kitchen.

There are 7 big babies and 2 micro babies . The smallest were only 60 g at birth. I've been trying to feed them KMR from start , but they refused. Like a miracle after 2 w of age, they changed their mind. So now they are getting KMR milk morning,day and evenings.  They are very strong.   If they smell and hear me fixing their milk and it doesn't come fast enough, they let me know, and sometimes they even crawl out of the box.  Lily is still our supermommy.

In this litter we will keep 2 girls. 4 of the others are in option for breeding.  That is not always easy to decide at this age, so therfor are all 6 of them in option.

The blue boy will less white is in option for pet, the same goes for the small girls. The 2 little girls need to grow and develop.

So after 6 w of age, we will know more, if any of them are available or if they have their future homes.

Best news the last week is that we actually got 2 red girls, not only 1.And the lilac cream girl turned out to be a bicolour too.

Here are some of their 3 weeks pictures :

The boys :

The 4 big girls :

And the 2 small girls :

New update in a week.

Our Easter litter 2021

 Finally we got kittens again. We prefer to have the litters Spring and Summertime.

Our first litter this year is between :

Attack's Love Actually and Attack's Water Lily.

I knew after the 3 first weeks of mating it would be a large litter. Not only did she show sign of red titties , her belly started to grow at the same time.

This is Lily's belly the day before birth :

The morning on day 64 the birth started. I just knew it had to be more that 7 kittens ,  they just kept comming.

Finally the last kitten was born :

And how many kittens came ?

If you are still counting , there came 10 !! All alive - the birth was done in 4 hours.

1 w old :

5 boys and 5 girls. 

Sadly we lost one of the boys after this first week. There were 2 much smaller boys in the litter. The other boy is now the same size as the big siblings.

There is also 2 extremly small girls. But they are nursing well and  gaining. Just in their own tempo. It can go either ways with them, but they are very strong, so we are crossing fingers. 

The colours on the boys :

Blue and white ( 03) , Red and white (03 w spots) , Blue and white (02 w spots) and Cream and white (01 w spots).

The colours on the girls :

Red and white ( 02 w spots) , Blue cream and white ( 01 w spots), Lilac cream ( w spots) , Chocolate tortie (03 w spots) and black tortie ( 03 w spots).

My plan is to make 3 weeks pictures in a week + . But it will maybe just be of the 7 biggest . It can still go either way with the 2 smallest girls , so I am in no hurry.

All the kittens are in option to our Cattery at this moment. We know who we want to keep, but in the next weeks they shall grow and develop. 

Lily prove last year she has the same qualitees as her mommy, Geisha. Easy birth, lots of milk and such a good mommy. Last year she was together with Scarlett , and while she was waiting for her own babies to be born, she adopted Scarletts babies too. So last year she also had 9 babies. But then there were 2 devoted mothers and milkbars.

This year she is a single mom to 9 kittens alone.  All she do is eat,sleep,poop and feeding , just like her babies. She is placed in the kitchen and the doors are open on daytime. She stays in the birthbox 23 h each day anyway.

The kittens are so beautiful, all 9.