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If she ate the other babies she did so because she was lacking in nutrients, so I got told by our old vet over 15 years ago. Her first litter she killed/ate them, then she had a second litter which she reared fine.
Thats all I know, but from what the vet told us he said to leave them to the mum and remove any eaten/dead babies. This was by an un-savvy rabbit vet (they mainly dealt with farm animals) well over 15 years ago though.
Really hope someone else comes along with better advice
Are the babies cold? Does the mum go in to see them?
agreed i would remove immediatly but try and get mum feeding them at least if not then go for hand rear you can also do like one mum feed and suppliment with goats milk too?
i put mum on her back and put the babies on, both babies have had a really good feed, and mum tolerated it realy well so fingers x
my vet said not to even try to handrear as the success rate was really low but i feel i need to give these babies a chance
I have lost kits i wished i'd removed and hand-reared- if i had any doubts i probably wouldn't hesistate now as i don't like cleaning kits off the bottom of the hutch floor This is just due to my decisions turning out wrong in the past though- go with whatever you feel is best. I think i'd go with tamsins advice, supervise feeding. They only feed once a day anyway as far as i'm aware. I would have some substitute milk on hand just incase though.
I did have a bunny that killed one of hers then reared the rest perfectly fine. It all depends on the bunny really i suppose, your connection to them, you will know what is right for them.