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abondoned baby rabbit

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Question
Hi, I wonder if you can help me, my daughters rabbit had babies about two weeks ago in the downstairs part of her hutch.  Over the last few days i found 3 dead on the ground around her hutch.  After finding the last one dead this morning I moved the babies to the upstairs part of the hutch which is enclosed as i thought it would be safer for them i thought maybe the others had fallen outve the hutch between the bars.  about half an hour later my daughter rushed in to tell me there was another one on the ground. It was cold and stiff and barely breathing so i put it on a hotwater bottle and kept rubbing it.  i gave him some baby forumla(the local petshop told me to do that) from a syrnge and he is moving about now but his eyes are still closed.  what do i do now, should i put him back in the hutch, he has been in the house for the past four hours or so....have just found another baby away from the other babies at the bottom of the hutch as i was typing this...I dont know what to do should i put them back in with her

Answer
hi -i think the doe is pulling them out the nest and if so she will leave them where they are and not bother with them -i suggest trying to rear the one you have on the bottle but it will need feeding every two hours which is hard on you.
some does who dont like looking after babys kill them but yours is one that pullds them out the nest and then forgets about them.
dave.