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BINKYBUNNY FORUMS

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- 05/01/2018 at 11:43 AM
  Paigelouise
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  I need some advice on a baby bunny I’m hand rearing after a friend purchased a pregnant doe. The mom stopped producing milk around day 9. There’s only one kit left and I’ve been feeding him goats milk. He probably went about 48 hours with little to no food until we realised he wasn’t getting milk. He’s 13 days old now but is losing weight. I’m was feeding 15ml a day and have just upped it to 20ml today. He won’t drink from the syringe and when I put it into his mouth it seems most of it gets spilled so for the last 3 days he has been lapping it up from the palm of my hand. He has only started peeing properly the last 2 days and seems to lose a lot of weight after he does.
  
  The day we began feeding he was 117g, that has now dropped to 106g. It goes up to around 114g some point of the day but as soon as he pees it goes back down again. He is very lively when awake, has started to nibble on hay and pellets. Has a good appetite. His poops are normal, not runny or anything. But the weight loss is really worrying me. Is it possible for him to have 7g of just water weight? Is there anything I can do to put weight on him? Other than increasing his milk intake?
  
  Thank you in advance for helping, I know it’s such a long post
- 05/01/2018 at 12:31 PM
  Bam
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  It’s not a long post.
  
  I have read about studies where baby buns were given probiotics to help them gain. It seems to work. There are many brands of probiotics, but Benebac seems to be the most widely available. Probiotics help the bunny take up the nutrients in the food better. It is also important that the bun is kept warm, or it can’t make use of the food. Goat’s milk is good, you can mix in some cream too. Rabbit milk is extremely fat and that’s why the buns get enough calories in them even though they only suckle for a few minutes once or twice per day.
  
  Most of us here have little or no experience with baby bunnies. The forum Rabbits Online have a section called the Rabbitry and Showroom where you’ll find more people with baby bunny knowledge. http://www.rabbitsonline.net/ (Not that we don’t want to help you here).
- 05/01/2018 at 1:51 PM
  Paigelouise
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  Thank so much!
  
  I’ll ask on the other forum too just to make sure
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