This litter was born this morning. There were 8 live healthy babies, one premature stillborn and 12 slugs. I weighed one of the babies at 26 grams. The babies and most of the slugs in this litter are smaller than usual. The mother of this litter was born here june 10th 1997. This is her 5th litter of babies. Previous litters have been better than this one with fewer slugs. She had been big and heavy all of her adult life until this past year when she was slow putting on weight after laying babies in september last year. She was around 5.5 pounds before laying this litter and had been around 6.5 to 7 pounds before laying the last few years. She has looked thin recently and I was not sure she would lay this litter okay. I will try to put weight back on her and likely not breed her again next season.

Jeff

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• Favorite kind of monday PIC. - Jeff Clark, Mon Sep 4 16:48:26 2006
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