Take Care of Baby Rabbits When You Bring Them Home - Find a warm, quiet room for the baby bunnies. The room should be around 72 degrees F and devoid of loud noises and other animals.
Put a box in the room. Lay a towel at the bottom of a box. Bunch another towel on top so the baby bunnies can snuggle into it. This box will serve as a nest for your baby bunnies.
Take Care of Baby Rabbits When You Bring Them Home
Prepare food for your baby bunnies. Feed them Kitten Milk Replacer mixed with cream and acidophilus capsules. Add 1 tbsp. of cream to every can of Kitten Milk Replacer. Gradually increase the amount of acidophilus capsules as the baby bunny ages. Newborn bunnies take 1/2 capsule, two-week-old and and older bunnies take one capsule. After four weeks, it is safe to wean baby bunnies from this formula. This mixture is the perfect replacement for natural rabbit milk.
Feed the baby bunnies twice daily with a sterile oral syringe or eye dropper. Do not overfeed them. A newborn bunny will eat 5 cc of the formula mixture. One-week-old bunnies will take up to 15 cc of formula, and two-week-old bunnies will take up to 30 cc of formula. Baby bunnies will eat up to 30 cc of the formula until they are able to wean at four weeks of age. To feed a baby bunny, wrap it in a towel and lay it on its back in the crook of your arm. Gently let it suckle the formula from the syringe or eye dropper.
Help your baby bunnies defecate and urinate. The mother rabbit licks the bunny to help its digestion move smoothly. Replicate this action by rubbing a cotton ball between the bunny's front legs and toward its bottom.
Baby rabbits are very fragile animals that require tender love and care. Just like any baby animal, baby rabbits need constant attention. They will need someone to keep watch over them, feed them, comfort them and more. You will have to act as the mother rabbit to the bunnies after they are separated from their mother and brought home. Proper care for the baby rabbits when you bring them home will prepare them for a happy, healthy life. - by eHow
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