How To Care For A Rescued Baby Rabbit. Home Wildlife emergency rescue hotline How to help orphaned baby wild animals How to help orphaned baby rabbits Temporary care for baby rabbits First contact a wildlife rehabilitator. For a wild bunny you need to get him to a wildlife rehabilitator if he is TRULY orphaned mom was killed.
Make sure that you are squeezing a very minute amount. You must play catch up and feed 3-4 times a day until your baby rabbits start to see progress. To mimic this you can use your clean moist fingertip or use a warm wet rag or cotton ball.
Also the mother bunny will gently lick the babys abdomen and genital area after feeding to stimulate elimination.
Baby rabbits need to develop healthy gut bacteria and their mothers milk and cecotropes help them to achieve this. Once they are growing well you can cut back to 2-3 times per day. So you should provide warm and soft bedding inside the nest. So if you find an abandoned baby rabbit in the wild you can take care of the baby bunny and keep them as a pet.