Poor little runt kit

[NZminilops]

Hi everyone

I have a liiter of 7 mini and holland lop cross babies. They all seems to be different sizes with the largest being about 8.5cm long and the smallest barely 5cms. I am really worried about this little runt as it's very skinny and always 'honking'
and sounding hungry when I go look in the nest. I have been holding him on the mother rabbits stomach every day around 11am for an extra feed until I see a fat stomach of milk but it doesn't seem to be helping. He is wrinkled and skinny looking today, he looked better yesterday although still small. I don't think he would be a peanut as he seems just as well formed as the others. He poos and pees well (he peed all over me yesterday). He is 5 days old and doesn't seem to have grown any bigger in those 5 days. Is that the sign of a peanut? Or just a malnourished kit? Here is is yesterday, he is the one with white, and is next to a bigger kit. The difference looks much worse today and I will see if I can get a picture later.

 

[Starlight Rabbitry]

One of the signs of a peanut is their inability to flourish. They can't develop like other babies. I think that you may indeed have a peanut. However, if it were a litter of mine, I would be doing the same thing. Good luck.

Sharon

 

[Snuggys Mom]

Aw, bless his little heart. That's gotta be hard for you, even though you're doing everything you can.

That tortie colored baby is beautiful! Do you have a pic of the others?

 

[NZminilops]

Hi thanks for the replies

He seems to be growing but it is hard for me to tell. He has a tumy full of milk right now and looks content, if a baby rabbit can have expressions!

He doesn't have small ears, they are the same size as the others. His hip area seems to be a good size as well so I am hoping that he is just being pushed around by the others.

I have three of that 'tort' colour (we call it sooty fawn here) and it's extremly common and I dont actually like it much myself, although it is pretty on the babies. I have many more pics of them in the blog section, I think it's called "New borns blog" or something like that . Here is that same bunny from above, it's the fatty of the group.

 

[Pipp]

How's the little runt doing? Still with us?

 

[NZminilops]

Hiya pipp,

Yep he is still hanging on . He is small but seems to be growing at his own rate. I tried to get pictures but when they are this age all the want to do is curl up and snuggle away so it was a bit tricky. This is the best I could do:

He's at the bottom right of the above picture, and obviosuly is the smaller one in the other two.