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- 04/17/2010 at 8:48 AM
  Echo and Jaspers mom
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  I’m planning to foster a mother and around five babys through the house rabbit society. I will only be fostering them until they are able to be spayed and nutered and go out to permenate homes. I’m sure my chapter leader will give me information when i bring them home. But i was wondering if anyone had any information on raising baby bunnies?
  
  Thanks so much!
  
  Lots of bunny kisses,
  
  Echo and Jaspers mom
- 04/17/2010 at 9:37 AM
  Elrohwen
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  That’s so awesome! I would looove to foster a litter. How old will they be when you get them?
- 04/17/2010 at 11:53 AM
  Echo and Jaspers mom
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  i’m not sure…but i’d have them untill they were old enough to be spayed or nueterd. So i could get them at any age under that
- 04/18/2010 at 12:46 AM
  BinkyBunny
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  Since we focus on the individual bunny and promote spay and neutering so much we don’t have a huge wealth of “raising baby” info here, but there are some members here who have dealt with accidental litters. So hopefully they will be along soon to help out.
  
  You can also check out the links section and scroll down to “Oops Litters” and there may be some helpful links there.
  
  And here is a link from a past discussion with a member who had a surprise litter:
  
  ‘https://binkybunny.com/FORUM/tabid/5…aspx#23891
- 04/18/2010 at 7:13 AM
  Beka27
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  How fun! Babies are very cute, but messy. It’ll help for you to try to come up with an enclosure that can be easily cleaned, maybe an xpen with linoleum base that you can sweep out a few times a day, and a stockpile of blankets or rugs that can be thrown in the wash daily? You’ll want to keep the fosters entirely separate from your existing rabbits, as the presence of new rabbits, can send your buns into a frenzy and upset their routine.
  
  And of course, pics of the new buns! It’s so great of you to open up your home to a family in need!
- 04/18/2010 at 1:06 PM
  TARM
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  I fostered a mama and 7 babies and it was cute for the first month or so but then they got to be A LOT of work. Be prepared for TONS of poop. Your house WILL smell with that many babies.
  
  You don’t have to do much on the raising end besides handle them a lot so they’re social when they go up for adoption. Mama will take care of everything else. You probably won’t see her feed them, she’ll do that when it’s quiet and no one is around, usually twice a day. Mama will need unlimited alfalfa pellets and hay. You’ll see the babies start to eat the pellets and hay pretty early and you can start introducing greens at around 8 weeks.
  
  It really is rewarding work but it IS hard and you will get tired. I wasn’t prepared for how much work it turned out to be and I wish someone would have warned me. I would have done it anyway but I wouldn’t have been taken by surprise when I needed to shop vac their pen three times a day and change their litter box every day.
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