Annoucement - Nebraska Babies Finally here

Well Nebraska was a week overdue and we've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of these babies.  I took her for a scan on Friday morning, as I was concerned she may need a C-Section to deliver them.  I was told there were 3 maybe 4 kittens, and they were a good size and in the correct position for delivery.  That afternoon she went into labour, and over several hours 4 kittens were born.  All big, active and healthy, and took to suckling well.  Nebraska was as usual acting the doting mum and constantly cleaning and checking on her little ones while they fed.  Overnight however, it appears 1 kitten had strayed and managed to crawl or get wrapped between the folds of the blanket.  Unfortunately mum inadvertantly laid on it too and smothered it, so now we are have just 3.

These kittens were born on Friday 18th March, so I've had time to observe them over the weekend and sex them.  We have 2 girls and 1 male. 1 has been born the unusual blue/cream with undertones of rufus showing in the coat and around the face.  The remaining 2 are standard brown with black spotting, the female appears very red brown, the male more cooler toned brown.  All babies have fantastic visable random spotting and will have very striking coats when they are fully grown.

We took these pictures of Mum nursing and cleaning her brood when they were still under a day old.  As you can see these 3 are a good size. All are straight-footed, the 2 females are rumpy kittens (i.e. no tails) and the male is a riser tail but longer than mums.