Help? my doe has just gien birth for the 2nd time in 32 days?

Question

my giant lop doe aged just 5 months (daughter let buck out) she has a litter of 2 32 days gave birth 30 mins ago to a litter of 4 1 stillborn she ran off and doesnt seen interested i rubbed my scent on herand put her and babies in cage but she is ignoring them what can i do?

Answer 1

To start out with, pick up your doe, by the scruff of her neck, Support her hindquarters, then pull fur out of her tummy, this will remind she has work to do. It doesn't hurt her much, if at all. Once you pull out some fur cover the babies with it, this will warm them up. Remove the still born from the nest.

You may have to force nurse her. Try holding her on her side, and puttign the babies up to her nipples, let them drink till their full, then wait a few hours, if they look hungry and she still hasn't fed them yet, you should try to hind the babies, this will be hard, and most don't live,

but you now have three options.

1. Hind The Babies, this doesn't usually work, but you can try.

2.Continue to force nurse her

3. Let nature take it's coarse

If your goign to continue to force nurse her, you'll have to do it every 3-4  hours for the first 1-2 weeks, then every 5-6 hours once their older.

To hind them, you'll need to do this also every 3-4 hours, you can use, goats milk, or kitten milk, kitten milk is available at most petstores.

Fill a litte syringe with skin temperature milk, then give the babies 1-2 drops at a time, they will only drink a few drops, when their ful ltheir bellies should be big pink and round.

They should als ofall asleep in your hands, or right after you put them back.

**Never never never hold the babies on their back to feed them, they will choke on the milk, and die.

Hold them straight up, in your left hand, with your thumb and fingers supporting his/her back. let his/ her hinquarters sit on your palm, and with your right hand stick the needle i nthe side of their mouth, and give a few drops.

Eventually she may take them back, and you will no longer have to do this procedure.

Answer 2

I don't think they'll do so well after being rejected at such an early stage.  I don't have any experience of raising baby rabbits from birth, but that being said, I don't hold out much hope for them.  She's probably still in poor condition from her first litter to be honest - more is going to be an awful strain on her and she's so young.  If there is a doe in your area that is still nursing, that might be okay, but given there's been interference with them I don't hold out much hope of them being accepted.

Good luck, whatever you do with the kittens, but at least look in to getting him chopped or her spayed, because it's not ideal that the rabbits have to pay for your daughter's mistake.