Well, she lost three right away and discarded 5. They all it hand fed and returned. She lost another (it had diarrhea) and returned all her babies to the discard pile that were there before. She stepped on one that was starting to look good and killed it... I hand fed them again and she took...
The mom who had 11 (down to 8) I ended up bottle feeding two. I put them back in the nest after so there is a chance they can get some mom milk too, but they are half the size because they missed a lot of feedings from the new mom.
Would this practice of hand feeding 2 day old bunnies and...
Hi. I'm new here, but I have come across an issue I need another opinion on.
My momma bunny had a litter of 17 babies. At day 2 she is starting to discard some. Same ones each time. I would expect that she may struggle to feed a lot of them.
As of right now I am keeping the discarded ones...