I'm Still Not Sure She's Feeding Them

Anyone??

Hi Dannii I dont know if these will help at all but these are the kits in my does nest at approx 3 days old


And this is mum feeding them inside the nest box though they were a bit older here. As you may have seen mum will stand over the top of them and the babies flip themselves upside down to latch on.



This is a kit at 3 days. I guess very difficult to tell but his body does have a round shape. Not sunken at all.



And this is the nest at 6 days. Again difficult to show what i mean but all the bubbas look 'rounded'



If your doe was standing over them I would assume she was feeding them. I think a feed may only last a couple of minutes.

Has she had plenty of material (hay etc) to build their nest with to keep them snug?
Are you just checking praps without touching that all babies are alive. Any dead ones shoul be removed asap.

NB: As a general note to all I must add the all these photos were taken without flash and mumbun was put into her run before I checked the kits and she was not distressed in anyway. I would not advise at all that anyone does as I did with my doe and babies, you must decide your own approach with your own bunny and with vets advice

when she hopped off where they all wriggling around with rounded bellies?
Also as the milk is so rich they only feed for a few mins

Oh there all ok then

There bodies are just like in your pic with the kit in your hand, I think i was exspecting too much :lol:

I'm glad i've seen them pics though thankyou!

I now know that she's looking after them!!

:wave::wave:

Good, its sounds like she was feeding them when she was stood over them. Well done mummybun I'm glad she seems to be getting on ok.

She had 7 but 2 had already died

There is 5 alive and there kicking away! There is pleanty of hay for her to make her nest with them, They keep wriggling to the other side of the cage. Only 1 and its the same one :lol:

Thankyou for your advice!

How many babies did your bun have?

10 :shock: i am so not proud of it but you live and learn. We still have mum and dad and kept 4 of the babies though one passed away a couple of weeks ago. all of them are neutered and bonded now and happy happy.

Wow shes done well

Awww bless! How old are they now??

They were born 02/10/06 i think so 3 years 6 months

Awww! Thats brilliant, I wish i had the room to keep all mine!

Have you put the babies in a nest box?

Princessdanii - I am in a similar position. See my thread here

This is what one of my babies looked like today.

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I found them on Sunday night but don't really know how old they are although I think a few days at least. I stroked mum first and also rubbed my hands in her bedding material before I investigated them. She had buried them down and we had no idea they were there as I did not know they did that??? but there were and still are 5 kits. Shadow (mum) happily runs around the run, eats her brocoli or hay and seems fine while I check them. I am still shocked about it and a little bit anxious. I worry they are ok buried down but they seem to be so far.

Today I lifted their tray (where she left her nest in) and directly placed it into a home made cardboard nest box which i hope will stop them wandering too soon or being dragged out the nest by accident but it looks like Shadow feeds them then covers them up safely again so there is no evidence on top.

Isn't nature amazing? but I am still shocked :shock: