Transporting Babies

[samanthasbunnies]

My baby bunnies will be five weeks old on Sunday and I want to go home to New Jersey, ( I live in Rhode Island), to visit family for ten days. My father has a large rabbit hutch for his rabbit at home, and he said he will take his rabbit to stay in the house while i'm there and my rabbit (the mother) and her five, five week old baby bunnies could stay in the hutch. The drive is four hours long, will this change of scenery and long ride be a shock and traumatizing to the bunnies? I appreciate any help! Thank you!

 

[majorv]

It would probably be better if you could have someone feed them while you're gone, but if you're keeping Mom with the babies then that will help to minimize the stress of the trip and change in environment. Four hours isn't that bad, but before you put your rabbits in the hutch you need to thoroughly clean the hutch. Kits are more susceptible to germs, bacteria and whatever else is left in it from your father's bunny. Be sure to keep hay available for them to eat during the trip and in the hutch, along with their pellets. Have you checked that the hutch is escape proof? Kits can be little escape artists.

 

[Nancy McClelland]

It was a 12 hour trip when we moved here and everyone was alright. We kept them in the hutch they were living in so there were no changes other than location.