Baby Rabbit Care Tips ?How to Take Care of Your Newborn Rabbit

     Do you have a pregnant pet rabbit at home? Do not have enough information and ideas on how to care for them? If yes, read this article and consider the guidelines mentioned below to help you care for your baby rabbits.

If mother rabbits are present, it is not that hard to care for the coming of baby bunnies because she is the one who take care of the nursing. What is needed of you is to provide your pets support in nursing their young.

Caring for newborn rabbits are tedious, yet exciting because you can expect new addition to your rabbits' family. Remember that first few weeks after birth are the most dangerous and vulnerable to them due to the presence of predators and environmental hazards. As pet owner, you should regularly check rabbit hutch to ensure they are safe.

Factors to consider:

* Since mother rabbits fed their young at dawn, usually 3 to 4 am, it is important that you check them in their hutch to ensure that baby rabbits are well fed, otherwise you can give them milk substitute formula found in pet shops. You can use oral syringe to give them milk.

* Make sure their cage or hutch has warm temperature.

* You should place hay, straw or shredded newspapers in their nest box to keep the mother rabbit and young rabbits warm and comfortable.

* You also make sure that mother rabbit and her baby rabbits are safe from the reach of your other household pets, such as cats and dogs.

* Be sure to give the mother rabbit adequate and nutritious food to eat to ensure she can produce enough milk to feed her young. You can also add pellets in her diet.

* To protect young rabbits from infection and bacteria, make sure to clean their nesting box and their bedding materials on the ninth day after birth.

* As soon as baby rabbits opened their eyes on the tenth or twelfth day, examine their eyes for signs of infections, otherwise call your veterinarian for assistance. If you notice build up of crust around their eyes, soak cotton swap in warm sterile water and gently remove the buildup around their eyes.

* If you noticed gritty brown color in baby rabbits' urine, call the veterinarian immediately because it is dangerous for their health.

* After a couple of weeks, remove the nesting box to give baby rabbits adequate time to adjust to the new environment and to put on little weight.

* Make sure to provide them plenty of hay to eat.

* If you noticed that baby rabbits are dehydrated, give them pedialyte to drink.

* Give baby rabbits food and water so mother rabbit can wean them off. After seven weeks from birth, you can separate them from their mother rabbit, put them in another cage and train them to adjust without their mother rabbit.

* Be sure to do so when they already feed and drink on their own.

* Avoid giving them fruit juices and cow's milk because it could make baby rabbit's fecal messy.

* It is also recommended to give them Lactobacillus Acidophilus in their substitute milk to strengthen their bodies.

With all the care, love and attention that you shower to mother rabbit and her young, for sure they give you love and loyalty in return.