How do you nurse a baby wild rabbit?

Answer 1

Usually you don't want to wean baby rabbits if the mother rabbits is feeding them. For orphan rabbits about six to eight weeks old if they still wanting to be fed you can start diluting their milk. Like 75% milk and 25% water and gradually diluting it more and more until the babies loose interest in eating milk. But they will need to have pellets and water in their pen when they are about 3 weeks old!

Answer 2

The mother is capable of weaning the baby itself. However, if you just have the baby thing, then slowly give it less milk each day until it is fine without milk. Weaning can take up to two months. Good luck.

Answer 3

Baby wild rabbits are very difficult to hand-raise. If you find an abandoned baby rabbit, you may as well leave it where it is, because if you try to nurse it you'll probably only prolong its suffering.

Many people find wild baby rabbits and think they've been abandoned when in fact they haven't been. Mother rabbits don't sit wit their babies all the time, but mostly leave them alone, coming by to feed them once or twice a day. If the babies are warm and their bellies are round, then they haven't been abandoned. If they're cold, have wrinkly skin, and their bellies are sunken, then maybe they have been abandoned.

If you want to help, then for the sake of the bunny, at least call a local authority to ask for help: this could be a wildlife rehabilitator, a rabbit rescue group, a municipal animal protections and welfare agency, an SPCA, etc.

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Answer 4

*You* don't. They eat solid food a few hours after they're born just the first 4 weeks they have milk, and after that, the mother basically tells them no more. (:

Answer 5

You should not wean wild kits (baby rabbits) because they are wild. They will naturally wean themselves.