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cwozza

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hi, i have just gone to check on my babies today and mum has put 3 on to 1 side, i have read other feeds and i know that they sometimes do this ,but because she has done this i can now see that 3 of the other babies are 1/2 the size and their skin looks too big for their bodies, i'm not sure what to do now
do i leave them a bit longer to see if they gain weigh or do i get someone to hold mum and try to get them to feed(as i seen on other feeds) any advice please
 
If the skin look too big for their body, they are not getting fed. They should have nice fat and round bellies.
Does she look to have abandoned them? There may be nothing you can do, at 6 days old it is very hard to hand rear. You could lie mum on her back, restraning her, and place the babies near a teat to see if they will feed. Make sure she doesnt kick as she could send babies flying.
I would make sure that the babies still had scent of mum, and place them at the bottom of the nest. Hopefully when she goes to feed the others she will not notice them, and at the bottom they will get warm again.

Good luck
 
The thing is the mum will feed her babies at night time and you rarely get to see her feeding them. I would just put them back into the nest if possible and hope for the best. My neighbour's bun kicked the runt of the litter out of the nest time and time again but she just kept putting her back in, she is now the biggest of all the buns and has an attitude to match lol.

Good Luck
 
You can usually tell if they have been fed recently, when they begin to look small and "shrunken" in the skin they haven't been fed for a while. However sometimes mums know best, and abandon the ones with problems unknown to us.
The only thing you can do is hope for the best that she will feed them again.
 
If you really don't think they are getting any food, you could make up some milk and see if they take it. When my babies mum died as soon as I put a teat to their mouth they went frantic for the milk and took it really easily, if they don't they probably either aren't hungry or are too weak. You could then put them back in the nest. You could only do that though if the mum isn't bothered by you handling them at all.
 
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