Oh Boy! Too bad that they aren't just a little bit older!
Okay, this goes way back to when I was a kid...and that's beenmany moons ago. My dad ran over a nest of cottontails whenmowing hay...brought the babies up to the house in his cap.At that time, he milked our stock cows, so we had fresh cow milk everyday. Fifty years ago, there wasn't all the modern technologyor products of today. I fed them cow milk with a medicinedropper...just one of those glass ones like you can still buy at WalMart, or probably a drug store. You can control the amount ofmilk with the pressure of your finger and thumb and they willsuck. (In more recent years, I've used this with bunnies I'veraised.) It was probably just dumb luck, but I raised thosebaby cottontails and got them started on some grass andoats..dandilions, etc., and I kept them till they were probablyway past the stage where they could take care ofthemselves. There were four of them. And, Idid the same thing with a jack rabbit. My mother finally mademe let him go. Rabbit urine is the best darn wax remover youever did see, and she did not see the humor in it everytime Jackiepeed, and there went the wax on her floor!
The wild rabbits are harder to raise than the domestic, but I've foundthat the domestic ones I've tried to raise all by myself didn'tfare too well, either. So, I always breed more than one doeat a time. That way, I've got a back up. And, ifthere should be too many, I split litters. I keep part ofthem in the house, and just feed them evaporated milk with thedropper. Come evening time, I exchange babies. Thatway, everybody gets some rabbit milk, and everybody doeswell. It's extra work, but it works. And, you endup with some really tame bunnies!
Just good luck, I guess. And try to not feel too bad if you lose them, cuz it may happen.
