Choosing Your Rabbit
Who Lives With Who?
Housing
Feeding
Handling
Breeding
Pregnancy
The New Litter
Surrogacy
Hand-Rearing
Health
Vets Bills
Pictures

Hand-Rearing

Avoid if at all possible – my success rate is very poor, they just don’t survive. I have tried SMA baby milk and you can also buy special powdered milk from some pet shops and the vet. The text books advise 2 hourly feeds but I found they didn’t want feeding this regularly and wouldn’t take the milk.

Hand-rearing is hard work but can be rewarding if the young live. I had to rear 1 litter after their mother was killed but they were 2½ weeks old so had a fairly good start in life.

If you are lucky enough to have another doe with a new litter then you may be able to get her to adopt them. See Surrogacy.