Gazelle had a litter of 13 (I thought it was 14 but I guess I miscounted) and now there are only 7 babies left. Six have died and all showed the same characteristics. All were small, thin, and had no milkband. With the 7 that are left, five of them seem small and look thinner than the two chubby ones. There are two pups that are exceptionally chubby and have big milkbands, while the other five have small milkbands and are nearly 70% the size of the two chubby ones. One pup I would say, is even perhaps 50% the size of the two chubby ones. The mother always has food and water and whenever I come into the room she is nursing the babies.

Any ideas on why these babies are dropping like flies? And why only two of them seem normal? I was hoping to keep two from this litter as future breeders, but if things keep going this way, there will only be two left and none for use as feeders.