Care for Wild Baby Rabbits - Make the babies a soft nest. Take a sturdy cardboard box and put some clean, soft towels inside. Put the babies into the box and then cover the top of the box with another towel so it is dark inside. Be sure to leave a 1 inch opening so enough air gets into the box.
Provide extra heat for the babies if the temperature of the room you keep them in is below 68 degrees. Take a heating pad and set it to the lowest setting. Put the heating pad inside the box under the towels. Be sure the heating pad only covers half of the bottom of the box so the rabbits can move to a cooler spot if they get too hot.
Care for Wild Baby Rabbits
Go to a pet store or a veterinarian's office to buy some Kitten Milk Replacer (KMR) for feeding the baby rabbits. Do not give them cow's milk. Add 1 tbsp. of cream to each can of KMR to increase the caloric count. It is also a good idea to mix acidophilus into the KMR. Acidophilus increases the chances of the baby surviving because it keeps the bacteria in his stomach balanced. Add 1/2 the contents of one capsule until the rabbit is two weeks old, then add the contents of one full capsule after two weeks.
Wrap the baby rabbit in a towel and cradle her in your arm or lay her on your lap to feed her. Baby rabbits feed from their mother while lying on their backs, so try holding the rabbit that way while feeding, if she allows it.
Use an eye dropper or a syringe to feed the KMR to the rabbit. It is very important to feed the rabbit slowly and let him eat at his own pace. Feeding too quickly with an eye dropper or a syringe could cause fluid to get into the rabbit's lungs and suffocate him. Feed him once a day. Newborn rabbits should eat 5 CC of KMR daily, this increases to 10 to 15 CC at one week old, 20 to 30 CC at two weeks, and 30 CC until weaned. If the rabbit does not eat this much, it is alright to feed twice a day, but never more than twice in one day.
Before deciding to care for wild baby rabbits it is important that you are positive the rabbits are orphaned. If you find a baby rabbit wandering around, it is possible that the baby has left the nest to explore and can find her way back. However, if you see the baby in the same spot for a couple of days and she doesn't leave, then she is probably orphaned. - by eHow
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