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

swandfriends · 41-45, F

What did you feed them?

HumanEarth · F

Grass, weeds, lettuce, spinach. dandelion greens, and basically anything green that grew wild in my yard

swandfriends · 41-45, F

This one is a newborn though. Besides plain goat milk or replacement rabbit milk, do you know of anything else

HumanEarth · F

I used home made baby formula

One 12 oz can of Evaporated milk. I like Carnation brand, because they use less junk and chemicals in theirs then the other brands (unless you can find organic)

Use 2 tablespoons of Karo syrup and not corn syrup or sugar in place of Karo syrup as they do not provide the same nutritional benefits and can be harmful to the little baby animal

About 30 ozz of Water. This makes up the bulk of formula

Add a couple of drops a multi vitamin drop

This what was used on my grandparents farm for decades throughout the 1950s though the 1970s

swandfriends · 41-45, F

Thank you!

HumanEarth · F

Oh start out with one drop of multi vitamin drop for the first week and add a drop each week as they get older

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