Hi from South Africa

[MBlight]

Hi, my name is Michelle and I'm all the way from South Africa. I'm REALLY new to rabbits and I'm sort of stuck in a difficult situation at the moment. I run a guinea pig rescue and have never kept rabbits in my life. But yesterday I was contacted by a pet shop that I had been dealing with for some time, their one rabbit had died after giving birth, I can only assume because of the stress involved in giving birth in such a loud and stressful environment. They asked me to take in the litter and try to save them as they had no other lactating does "in stock" :X

In any case, one of the babies had to be put to sleep, somehow half of its foot "broke" off at some point and he was left with a gaping wound. Another baby died during the night last night. I've hand-reared birds, kittens, guinea pigs, even rats in the past but after reading on the net on how to rear these little angels I'm starting to feel way out of my depth with everyone saying this is the most difficult animal to hand rear.

To my knowledge there is no rabbit rescue in my province so currently I'm feeding them with a combination of kitten formula and goats milk. I've gone to every pharmacy and vet in my city today looking for collustrum with no success (welcome to Africa) and the fact that I've already lost one baby has me very de-motivated. If any one has any advice for me on raising these 4 little things I would greatly appreciate it...

 

[Nancy McClelland]

ray: Hit the library section and see if any info pertains to your situation. With kits that young, the prognosis isn't all that great.

 

[pla725]

Are there any breeders in your area that may be willing to help out?

 

[MBlight]

I did manage to find a breeder who had a lactating mom, but by that time I had lost another 2 babies. While I was there I was looking at possibly adopting an adult bunny from him, she's a blue girl with a little white spot on her nose, very cute.

 

[Wabbitdad12]

Let me welcome you to Rabbits Online, my name is Dave and I am a moderator on the forum. So if I can be of any help please let me know. This is a terrific website for rabbits and their slaves, not only is it very active but also friendly. I am so glad you’re here and I know you will enjoy it.

Many bunny's recommend their slaves to this site so we may learn of others methods to keeping our furry masters happy.

If you everhave a sick bunny, please post in The Infirmary and include your rabbit's age, breed and health history as well diet and output details leading up to the problem.

I have listed some links I thought you might find interesting:

*For reference the Library section

*To brag or tell everyone about the antics of your bunny or just to talk about your day here is where to start a Bunny Blog, you can also look back at it later and remember when you had a life before your bunny.

*Now all the bunny’s like talk to each other when we mere slaves aren’t around in the Bunny Chat is the spot to be.

*Rabbits Online also has regional forums , this a good way to find a vet in your area that has experience with rabbits and to find out from other nearby of good sources of rabbit supplies.

The Let Your Hare Down section is for anything non-bunny related.

Here is a link tothat will help you and your bunny to connect, How To Bond With Your Bunny.

Now every forum has rules and ours can be found with this link Rabbits Online Forum Rules. This gives guidelines on what is acceptable, what is not and how we hope everyone will treat each other.

Everyone on this forum loves to see pictures of each other’s bunnies. So if you would like to post a picture this link will help you do that, Upload Photo's to Photo Gallery. Then in the post, you click on the "G" in the tool bar to insert your photo. Many people also use Photobucket. You just copy the img file and paste it into the post.

I am glad you have joined rabbits online and I look forward to seeing you around.

 

[sgbinky]

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