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I'd been finding baby bunnies in my lambing shed for the past three days. The first one looked like it had been dropped when its mom was moving it to a new nest. Its eyes were just starting to open. My first inclination was to bring it inside and take care of it. My second inclination was to leave it where it was, and hope the mother came back for it. I hollowed a nest in the hay by the wall and put the baby into it. It seemed healthy enough.
The next day, I heard a high-pitched squeaking from outside the window--my dog had a baby bunny hanging out of her mouth by the head. Horrified, I made her drop it. It seemed unharmed, although stunned. I cleaned the slobber off it and put it back in the nest--to discover that it was a second bunny.
Later that day, I got nervous and decided to try feeding them some milk replacer from a 1 cc syringe. I'd reared a bunny last year that was much younger than these two. Well, not only did they reject the milk, they started screaming--and bunnies are LOUD. I decided to quit that, but trying to put them both into the nest was a trick--they kept scrambling out and trying to escape through gaps in the wall. I felt they were safest in the shed and kept grabbing them and putting them back. Finally, they settled down. But not until a THIRD bunny burst out of the hay and joined the fracas!
A mother rabbit must have made a nest and given birth inside my shed, even while I was keeping two ewes with pneumonia confined in it. Miraculously, the ewes had not stepped on the nest or crushed the babies.
Later that day, the injured bunny died. The other two seemed quite healthy, though. They're literally sleeping in food. I also figure the mother rabbit was coming by to nurse them.
Today when I checked on them, one was sitting out in the corner. When I caught him to put him back, I found the other one lying very still in the nest. I thought he'd died, too, but then he woke up and took off like a shot! Catching him was like grabbing lighting made out of jell-o! It was all I could do to keep from dropping him as he kept wriggling free. I finally got them into the nest and covered them up to keep them quiet.
A little while ago, I wet out again, and saw old Becky lying just about on top of the nest! I thought for sure she'd crushed them--but when I looked over her back, there were the two bunnies, cuddled up beside her as comfy as you please!
I had to go get the camera. Only after I'd taken the picture did I see--a third bunny hiding behind the post! So the mother had had four bunnies!
The next day, I heard a high-pitched squeaking from outside the window--my dog had a baby bunny hanging out of her mouth by the head. Horrified, I made her drop it. It seemed unharmed, although stunned. I cleaned the slobber off it and put it back in the nest--to discover that it was a second bunny.
Later that day, I got nervous and decided to try feeding them some milk replacer from a 1 cc syringe. I'd reared a bunny last year that was much younger than these two. Well, not only did they reject the milk, they started screaming--and bunnies are LOUD. I decided to quit that, but trying to put them both into the nest was a trick--they kept scrambling out and trying to escape through gaps in the wall. I felt they were safest in the shed and kept grabbing them and putting them back. Finally, they settled down. But not until a THIRD bunny burst out of the hay and joined the fracas!
A mother rabbit must have made a nest and given birth inside my shed, even while I was keeping two ewes with pneumonia confined in it. Miraculously, the ewes had not stepped on the nest or crushed the babies.
Later that day, the injured bunny died. The other two seemed quite healthy, though. They're literally sleeping in food. I also figure the mother rabbit was coming by to nurse them.
Today when I checked on them, one was sitting out in the corner. When I caught him to put him back, I found the other one lying very still in the nest. I thought he'd died, too, but then he woke up and took off like a shot! Catching him was like grabbing lighting made out of jell-o! It was all I could do to keep from dropping him as he kept wriggling free. I finally got them into the nest and covered them up to keep them quiet.
A little while ago, I wet out again, and saw old Becky lying just about on top of the nest! I thought for sure she'd crushed them--but when I looked over her back, there were the two bunnies, cuddled up beside her as comfy as you please!
I had to go get the camera. Only after I'd taken the picture did I see--a third bunny hiding behind the post! So the mother had had four bunnies!
Category All / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Sheep
Size 1024 x 768px
File Size 166.2 kB
Adorable story, heartbreaking about the baby bun. My cat did much the same once. We had mowed the yard, and found that in a small pocket there were SIX of them curled up in it right under where we had just mowed, completely unharmed. An hour later my cat has one in her mouth.... So, the cat had to be put in for a while while the buns got big enough to out run her.
Very cute! Unfortunately baby bunnies are very fragile and they do die often. :( One of my friends grandparents has some wild cotton tail rabbits (babies). They are quite paranoid and so hard to catch. In my opinion you are doing your best and I appreciate you taking care of these guys! Plus having a dog may let you know you have bunnies! I have two dogs but thankfully they haven’t interrupted a rabbits nest. And rabbit screams are pretty scary, and some what disturbing. They are such cute little things that make a racket!
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