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    Default Found wild baby rabbit

    DB's mother found a wild baby rabbit a few minutes ago and brought it to me. It has fur, but it's eyes are not yet open. I kinda feel honor-bound to try to take care of the little guy, I just have no idea of how to do it. Any of you guys have any suggestions?

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    Pictures!!!!




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    Go to your local feed or pet store and pick up a very, very tiny bottle and formula. Or If you have access to an eye dropper and goat milk, you could try that.

    You only feed them 1-2 times a day and have to use a cotton swab on their behind to get them to go poo.

    Good luck, tiny wild babies are not easy to raise.

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    Be sure to keep him warm too!

    Sherry in GA

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    There was a previous thread about raising baby rabbits. Just go to search, hopefully you will find some good info there.

    Goodluck. I've had success and failure at raising baby rabbits. Hopefully you have more success.

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    Talking Here is what happened ...

    Mom digs a deep burrow, then she makes a special exit hole that joins to the birthing area. Once the bunnies are born she will cover that special exit hole up from the outside. Later when the bunnies start moving around she will reopen it.
    No, she does not usually forget to cover or uncover that special hole.
    Once in a while a bunny will have such a tight grip on a nipple it will get hauled right along with mom and suddenly ... it's out of the warren and in great danger.

    I use to raise rabbits, but had alot of trouble getting the breeding age does to take proper care of their new young. One day I was so sick of the deaths due to lack of care by the does, high cost of feed, and all the work involved ... I opened ALL the cages and released all the adult does and bucks into my huge barn.
    Within 4-6 weeks I had bunnies all over that barn! Never fed the adults again, only the bunnies when we caught them up to fatten them before butcher. The adults ate with all the other livestock, and even the guardian dogs did not bother them.

    Last summer I found a little cottontail bunnie in my barn down here in NM. Reason I found it was one of the goat kids stepped on it and it screamed out. I picked it up and then realized I had a whole litter in that stall. They had found that exit hole and all of them had come up and into that stall.

    I decided I was not up to feeding 7 little bunnies by bottle so I moved the goat kids into another stall for the day. By that night mom had returned and all the bunnies were back where they were suppose to be ... in the warren. Later on I would see them as teenagers running around in the pasture behind the barn.

    Just in the past few days I found another exit hole in that same stall. Someone plans or has had another litter there, today the exit hole is covered up!! Won't be but a few weeks before the bunnies will be running around in the barn again.

    Spring has sprung!

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    do not forget a heating pad!!!!!

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