Breeding Date: Evening of November 5
Due Date: November 24-27
I was going to wait until babies were born to make a post because of Chloe's past.. but this is Piper and she is definitely pregnant judging by the golfball in her belly
Piper is a self black and she was bred to Nike, a self chocolate. They bred the first night they were together so I've gone ahead and separated them and neither are distraught :P
I am looking forward to this litter. Both parents have fabulous personalities and the father, Nike, has incredible type.
I am a bit worried about Piper. She's only 9/10 days along and has ballooned to the size of many of my past full term females. I will be keeping a very very close eye on her. I have also been providing extra sources of protein and fat daily. The only odd thing is despite her size, her nipples are not becoming prominent. Should I be worried that she has a pyometra not babies? No discharge and she is still eating and active.. I guess I'm just paranoid that she is so big so soon.
I am expecting all black selfs from this litter and all babies will carry chocolate. I will be keeping one or two daughters to breed back to the father for chocolate selfs and a friend will be taking one or two daughters to breed to the chocolate mottled male she has from me (I've recently downsized my hamster numbers).
Please keep your fingers crossed for us, I am very nervous. Either this litter is huge in number or the pups are huge..
Here are mom and dad:
And here is mom today. Sorry for the blurry picture I didn't want to stress her so just picked up her front half and snapped a quick picture.
