Baby bunny licking himself

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- 04/14/2021 at 8:14 AM
  Kaylynn
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  So I have a baby bunny about a week old. They just opened their eyes yesterday. After I feed him I been trying to get him to pee but I can’t get him to pee no matter how much I stimulation him. But I did notice in the box where he sleeps there is tiny poops. And one day when I was feeding him he started to live his paws them he made his way down to lick his butt. Is he making himself go pee now? Is he peeing on his own? Because I can’t get him to pee I got him to pee a couple times but after that I noticed he was cleaning himself but never seen him pee yet
- 04/14/2021 at 8:23 AM
  Bam
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  I’d say him licking himself is a good sign. The rabbit mum typically leaves her kits to themselves for the largest part of the day, after wrapping them in a warming “cocoon” made of her own fur. She visits the kits once or twice per 24 hours to feed them for a few minutes. This works because rabbit milk is extremely fat (= very high in calories) and the fur wrapping is very warm.
  
  That said, I dont know enough about baby buns to give proper advice. We have some info on care of oops litter babies in our Resources pages. (Scroll down to Pregnancy\babies -uh oh oops babies https://binkybunny.com/links-to-house-rabbit-resources/).
  
  The BB forums prohibits discussions on intentional breeding, which means our members tend to not have the relevant experience with very young buns. The rabbit forums Rabbits Online has a whole section dedicated to rabbit breeding, pregnancy care and care of rabbit babies, and I think you’d get more relevant answers there: https://www.rabbitsonline.net/forums/the-rabbitry-and-show-room.20/
- 04/14/2021 at 8:29 AM
  Kaylynn
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  Thank you so much!!
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