4 day old rabbit

Question
My mother rabbit had babbies 4 days ago. She is only 4 months old. We got her when she was 3 months old and I didn't know she was pregnant. I think either her dad or brother got her pregnant. My dog licked one of them. Then later that night I found the one my dog licked away from the nest. Now I am careing for it. My questions are. How often do they eat? How much do they eat? I don't think the baby has gone to the bathroom for 8 hours. I tried rubbing it with a warm wet cloth? Should I try something different? What is head tilt? This baby only leans to the right? I feel so bad for the little thing. Thanks for the help. Beth  

Answer
It is nearly impossible to raise baby rabbits by hand.  I have tried and lost every single one of them by 2 months.  What you should try to do is pour vanilla on your hands and rub it in so your hands are damp with the vanilla.  Hold the baby to get the scent of the vanilla on to it then place a drop of the vanilla onto the mother nose.  Rub your hands over the mother then over the baby.  Then put the baby back into the nest.  There is a 90% chance you will be able to get the mother to accept it again.  Since there is a less than 25% chance that you can raise the kit by hand, you really should try this.

Part of the problem is that the doe onlt nurses the little ones once or twice a day and usually in the evening.  Since there isn't a formula out there that duplicates a rabbit's milk most people use cat formula which isn't nutritionally sound for rabbits but the closest we can come.  When you feed by hand they really should be fed a small amount about every hour or so when they are less than a week old.  It is quite complicated.

As far as deficating, they do not need the stimulation as dogs and cats do and they will only urinate for some time.

Here is a to a head tilt article on the web...
http://islandgems.net/wryneck.html

And one to information about raising orphans
http://islandgems.net/handfeeding.html