Hi! I'm relatively new to breeding rabbits (meat) and this is the second time my does have had kits. The first litter is almost a week old and has 5 kits. They all seem healthy and beautiful, expect when I picked them up today to inspect, all of them were squealing and jumping (they thought I was their mother and wanted to be fed) except for one. It was buried under the other 4 and when I picked it up it was super calm, nuzzling into my hand, and made absolutely no noise. It seems to be the same size/weight as the other four and looks otherwise healthy to me. Is this normal? I'm monitoring it in case I need to start hand feeding it but I just want to know what to look out for/what to do if this isn't normal. I can share a video of it's behavior if that would help! First two pictures are the kit in question, last picture is the other four
by Opposite-Iron9487
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Is little man missing a leg? He might be a bottle baby pet
So you have one that’s more contented than the others.
I’ve always hated dispatching bunnies.
The belly wrinkles suggest either mom hasn’t fed recently or it’s dehydrated from not getting enough to eat. Doesn’t look unhealthy otherwise. Instead of bottle feeding, you can lay mom belly up in your lap sort of pinned between your legs (just enough for stability) and allow baby to nurse. Do that a few times to get its strength up and I bet it’ll catch up fine.
Source: I raised rabbits for 10 years