How to provide correct Baby Rabbit Care?

Urban areas are increasingly recording a rising rabbit population and who knows, one day you might come across a nest of orphaned baby rabbits and that is why correct baby rabbit care is so important.

Items Needed For Baby Rabbit Care

• Bread
• Oats
• Apples
• Timothy hay
• Clover hay
• Wire cage with wire bottom and hinged roof
• Screen
• Towel
• Baby cereal
• Homogenized milk
• Small plastic nipple
• Formula bottle
• Glass jars
• Leather gloves
• Heated bed or hot pad
• Incubator
• Tissues
• Disinfected animal fur
• Clean soft soil
• A plastic box or a box made of wood with sides
• Water bottle with a draw pipe

Instructions on Baby Rabbit Care

# 1

Does are secretive creatures and they don’t exhibit their motherly caring ways to the world. So it is very important to determine whether the babies actually require care or not or whether they are actually orphaned and save your philanthropic tendencies for the needy. Surely you don’t want to separate a mother from her babies through misjudgment?

# 2

Your next step is to prepare a plastic box or wooden box where the babies can stay and the box should be lined with soil free from pesticide and dried hay.

# 3

Now scoop out a rabbit nest circular in shape in the middle of the hay and provide a lining with tissues or disinfected fur, where the babies can stay.

# 4

Always use leather gloves while handling the babies and carefully drop the babies one by one into this nest that is kept warm through an incubator.

# 5

Cover the babies with tissues or a little fur.

# 6

The babies should be fed every 3 hours as long as the sun is up in the sky. They won’t require feeding at night.

Tips on Baby Rabbit Care

1. Baby rabbits need a quiet and peaceful atmosphere away from the humdrum of daily human activities and human interaction. Or else they will get scared or traumatized in extreme cases.
2. The top of the cage should be covered with a window screen. It is light enough for a human being to remove it with ease or put it back and very easy to use moreover, but it is heavy enough to resist a rabbit’s knocking it over, let alone a baby rabbit’s.
3. If you find it difficult to distinguish which rabbit baby has already been fed by you through a feeding bottle, mark the babies on their ear tips with drops of differently colored nail polish, say in the order of the VIBGYOR.

Warnings

• When the rabbit babies grow up let them run about in the room instead of forcibly keeping them captivated in cage.
• Soured milk or hot milk is not preferred by rabbit babies. The milk solution should not be overheated. Let it cool and then feed the babies.
• The rabbit baby incubator should not be too hot nor should the bin catch fire.
• Check for diseases and certify from the vet. When you handle the delicate fragile bodies of the baby rabbits, you should be careful.