Baby Rabbit Milk Formula

This is not suitable for rabbits and must never be given to your pet.

Baby rabbit milk formula.

Pour the heated formula into a nursing bottle with a small nipple. Pour the homemade milk formula into a pan and heat to 105 degrees fahrenheit. Mixed baby cereal for every 3 oz. Rabbits that are 1 2 weeks old get 10 15 cc formula.

Baby rabbits are referred to as kittens just like baby cats. Use a plastic thermometer which you can buy at most pharmacies to ensure you do not overheat the formula. 2 to 3 weeks 15 to 30 cc formula. It is possible to nourish a baby rabbit with this substance.

Baby rabbits should drink a special formula. While the cat food aisle of a pet store will stock kitten milk. It kept them alive but they were terribly bony and were not gaining any weight. Newborn to one week 4 to 5 cc formula.

Commercial canine or feline milk replacer. This is known as kitten milk replacer. This will take some of the strain off of. Unfortunately i didn t have much luck with it.

Overheating will result in the formula losing much of its nutritional value. Because rabbit milk is the most caloric of all mammals we add in one tablespoon of 100 heavy whipping cream no sugar to each can of kmr. What to feed the babies baby rabbits should be fed kitten milk replacer kmr or goat milk which you can buy at pet stores or sometimes even a local veterinarian s office. In the wild their mother s milk is so rich that she need only feed them 2 3 times in a 24 hour period.

Once the baby is old enough to start moving around its container you can put in a water bottle with diluted formula. The study i referenced showed domestic rabbit milk is close to 12 fat and 12 protein. Source for rabbit. Rabbits that are 3 6 weeks old or until they are weaned get 30 cc formula.

Newborn rabbits up to a week old get 4 5 cc formula. 3 to 6 weeks until weaned 30 cc formula. Formula bunnies require a formula very high in fat. Dilute it 50 formula and 50 water.

The first thing i tried was a baby rabbit formula recipe that i found on youtube from a rabbit breeder. Here below is the amount of baby rabbit milk formula it s one day diet you have to divide all below mentioned quantities into equal halves. Egg yolk added to enough homogenized milk to make 4 to 6 oz. Since we cannot duplicate this bunnies in rehab situations should be fed more often when they are very young 4 5 times a day.