hi there, my name is Pauline and I'm looking for advice, my daughter found a stray rabbit last month it took my two days to catch the poor thing but eventually I did, we brought her home and the plan was to keep her a few days then rehome her but she ended up staying lol, Anyway 27 days after rescuing her she had a littler of 6 babies obliviously unexpected has I don't know anything about her back ground, so mum rabbit was left alone she is very well fed and watered with hardly any interaction for the first two days, the babies were born Friday 23rd, y she was checked briefly Saturday and then on Sunday morning I checked her and two babies were out of the nest one was unfortunately dead and the other barely alive,
I brought the alive baby in to get warm and then placed it back in the nest.
Sunday/Monday everything fine with babies and mum, Tuesday another dead baby out of the nest, so now we have 4,this morning to my horror only 3 left and I believe she has eaten the 4th as there is a small amount of blood in her hutch.. the babies are 5 days old, I understand cannibalism is something that happens but why would 2 die and she didn't eat them, eat one and still have 3 surviving? I'm slightly confused.. any advice welcome.
I brought the alive baby in to get warm and then placed it back in the nest.
Sunday/Monday everything fine with babies and mum, Tuesday another dead baby out of the nest, so now we have 4,this morning to my horror only 3 left and I believe she has eaten the 4th as there is a small amount of blood in her hutch.. the babies are 5 days old, I understand cannibalism is something that happens but why would 2 die and she didn't eat them, eat one and still have 3 surviving? I'm slightly confused.. any advice welcome.