Benjamin was born on a cold October day, His mother Henry was not sure what was happening as it was her first time being a mother, I had made her a nice warm box in the shed for her babes, but she was nt happy, the entrance to her box was in the wrong place and she kept telling by scratching in the place it should be, so made another hole for her, one in and one out and Henry was happy, but when we found her in labour, she already had two babes on the shed floor, so picked them up cleaned and warmed them,while Henry had more, and soon they were all cleaned and put in Henry s nest and this was to be Benjamine s beginings.
Bunny mums are not the best mothers, they feed their babes just once a day and the rest is left to the babes to look after themselves, we watched it all on live cam, Henry fed her buns for a very short time, so they had to be quick, and she would often leave with babes still hanging on and would be dragged out of the nest.
Then one at a time they would crawl out of the nest to the corner of the box, do a little wee then crawl back, and Benjamin took over as foreman and was the black bunny that always closed all the nest after they had been out and tucked them all back in and pulled all the fur to close the top.
As Benjamin grew up with his six brothers and one sister he was the leading man which often got him into trouble, fighting his brothers, he wanted to be top man and nothing would stop him he could be very naughty, and |
