Feeding Baby Rabbits Evaporated Milk

Stir or shake well when feeding.

Feeding baby rabbits evaporated milk.

4 oz evaporated milk 1 egg yolk 4 oz. Rabbits are in a class by themselves. Add the colostrum and secure the container s lid. Commercial canine or feline milk replacer formula 4 1 lg.

1 can evaporated milk equal amount of water 1 1 1 tsp. We only used this formula until the baby pig was up to eating whole milk. Scalded milk without egg yolk unborn chicken is recommended for all vegetarian animals babies or adults including deer rabbits mice rats wild and domestic hamsters gerbils guinea pigs as well as all types of tree squirrels or ground squirrels including flying squirrels prairie dogs chipmunks groundhogs marmots beaver and nutria. Once the rabbit baby starts to feed on the milk you can squeeze a little more but not while it is actually in the rabbit s mouth.

Rabbits move onto solid food relatively quickly but will not survive without milk. It just gives them. Baby cereal formula 3 1 tsp. 4 drops karo syrup or 1 2 tsp.

Use a syringe or eye dropper to feed your baby rabbit twice a day. Egg yolk added to enough homogenized milk to make 4 to 6 oz. Of formula directions edit. Pour the homemade milk formula into a pan and heat to 105 degrees fahrenheit.

Place it near the kittens mouth so that it can sense it. Mixed baby cereal for every 3 oz. So yes you can. Only push out enough so that it seeps out the syringe nozzle not enough so it squirts out.

If a rabbit s mother is unavailable to feed her young a nutritious replacement will be required. Squeeze the syringe very gently but not while it is in their mouth. Written by lou carter. You can feed baby rabbits milk from its mother or infant formula milk designed for rabbits through a baby bottle kmr is a kitten milk replacer which is available in pet stores.

Shake until you see the colostrum has dissolved. Mix the milk kitten milk replacer and heavy cream in the container. Karo syrup 1 tsp. Formula and lactate will also have to be added.

On wild rabbits which are very difficult to raise in captivity. To feed your baby rabbit for the first 6 weeks of its life buy kitten milk replacer and add 1 tablespoon of heavy whipping cream to each can since rabbit milk is naturally high in calories. Baby rabbits rely upon milk to survive even though they feed less frequently than other small animals. 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.