What do I do with these baby rabbits?

Our dog keeps finding baby rabbits. Have no idea where the nest could possibly be since we live in the country. The last one was probably a few days old. We fed it goats milk, then mixed a little egg in with it because that's what the recipes online said. It ate pretty good but stayed so skinny then died 8 days later. Now she has drug one up to the porch that looks like it's only a day old! Conservation didn't have andwers for me. The closest rescue doesn't take anything outside their county. So should I just feed this thing strait goat milk or something else? I don't want to just toss it out somewhere hoping the mother will find it. Because I'm sure the dog will find it first

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HumanEarth · F

Here is what we ended up doing on our farm.

We ended up taking them in and raising them when we found momma dead with new borns.

We eye dropper feed with baby formula till they were big enough to move to outside pen and let eat grass and weeds along with baby formula and water.

Then when they stopped eating the baby formula, I left the gate door open to freedom to the wild.

All 6 lived to release. I see them all the time running around for the past few years

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swandfriends · 41-45, F

Does it have to be vitamins for rabbits. Or can it be from the regular vitamin section for humans?

HumanEarth · F

The multi vitamins can be for humans but rodent kind would be the best. Like the kind from a pet store. Look in the pet rabbit area

If you can't find liquid, chewable work dissolved in water. If you can not find a multi vitamin. You can mix in a egg yolk, but blend and mix that super, super well. Because the yolk can clog the eye dropper and possibly choke the baby rabbit

That the reason I use the vitamins over the egg on tiny animals.

swandfriends · 41-45, F

I don't think right now I can afford the extra for vitamins. And I guess she went and got more of them earlier. My dad just texted me and said there are 4 bunnies now! So I'm going to do an experiment. 2 of them I will feed it the baby rabbit formula from the farm supply store. Then the other two I will try a homemade mix. I need to see what works best incase this happens again

itsok · 31-35, F

My sister volunteers with our local wildlife rehabilitator. Baby bunnies are some of the hardest to keep alive. My sister used kitten milk replacement from tractor supply, and eventually added in some Timothy hay. I do know it’s really easy to accidentally overfeed them

swandfriends · 41-45, F

With the last rabbit, I called around to those kind of places and petco as well to see if they had rabbit replacement milk. But they didn't. The recipe online said gosts milk mixed with a small drop of egg and corn syrup. What do you suggest? Should I just do the strait goat's milk?

itsok · 31-35, F

@swandfriends I don’t feel like im qualified to give advice, but maybe look for kitten milk instead of rabbit milk? Good luck

Northwest · M

Sigh! it's spring again. I have to rabbit-nests proof our yard again, but I have to wait until they actually establish the nest, before I can set up fencing/frotifications.

My dog is like: cool, new toys. He doesn't understand why he can't go in the yard.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

My dog killed 4 baby rabbits a couple of years ago, I was so upset.

Jenny1234 · 56-60, F

Can you block them off from your dogs? Sometimes they’re alone because their mothers are out looking for food and will be back.

swandfriends · 41-45, F

I'm not able to because there are so many possibilities of where it could have been taken from. We live in the country.

JimboSaturn · 56-60, M

Do you best with the milk. Unfortunately I have never had much luck with that.

GerOttman · 61-69, M

any chance you can get the dog to just show you where the bunny came from?

swandfriends · 41-45, F

That's a good idea. She just brought up more. I'm at work and my dad texted me and said there are 4 bunnies now. Ugh. I feel so bad for the mother rabbit wondering where her babies went to

justanothername · 51-55, M

What country do you live in?

swandfriends · 41-45, F

U.S.

jackrabbit10 · M

it is really hard to raise a wild baby rabbit ,8 out of 10 will die,

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