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Re: Placentas
Well Chris, I agree with you about the mum's smell being important for the bonding of kittens to mum etc. I did find, though, the most recent birth of kittens was ever so messy and wet and when you have wet bedding, it gets cold and little tiny bodies don't like being cold and wet. They soon bonded with mumcat when she had her babies back in the warm clean bed.
However, the litter before that was different - this was not so messy and I left the bedding in place until the last (6th) kitten was born. She just cuddled them all down the dry end of the kitten nest.
I agree with you about changing the bedding after a few days - not sure if anyone else's queens are like this but I found that my queen starts to worry about moving babies around the house if you leave the nest for too long with the same bedding.
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