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care of newborn rabbits

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Question
hi - we have a small hobby farm with a few dutch rabbits- one of the doe's died in childbirth today-leaving 4 babies alive- we have them inside and trying to bottle feed them- what else could we do? thank you  

Answer
Hope and pray that you are luckier and better at raising them than I have been.  Most people I talk to say that raising kits is nearly impossible.  Keep them warm, feed the rabbit milk replacer if you can find it (cat will work, but you want the best you can get if you can get it).  I have tried to raised them before after my neighbor's dogs killed the mother.  I got one out of 4 clear to 6 weeks and he died.  The vet said that hand reared rabbits just aren't as strong and just don't do as well.  I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but don't get too attatched.

Brenda