NEED HELP NOW!

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

Cinder gave birth and one of the kits is on the wire but it is still alive but it is very cold

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

He's also sticky

Edit: he's on a cloth on a bottle of hot water

 

[ladysown]

warm him up slowly. No kit is dead until is warm and dead. You can float him in a baggy in warm water, use a bean bag warmer, heat up towels in the dryer, stick him in your bra if you're a lady (head up), I've warmed up several in my armpit while doing chores....

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

warm him up slowly. No kit is dead until is warm and dead. You can float him in a baggy in warm water, use a bean bag warmer, heat up towels in the dryer, stick him in your bra if you're a lady (head up), I've warmed up several in my armpit while doing chores....

I... Would prefer if I did not put his sticky body on me lol

What do I do about the stikyness

 

[ladysown]

then use a different method. If the litter he is from is fairly big I'd be inclined to wipe him down with a warm wet cloth to remove the stickiness, while doing that put a towel in the dryer to get warmed up, get him fairly warm and then plunk him in the middle of his litter mates. He'll get all toasty warm really fast.

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

He's the only one in his litter and when I showed him to Cinder she ignored him

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

Ok I heated up a towel in the microwave and I put him in it (after of course)

 

[ladysown]

rabbits will often ignore their littles until feeding time.

So you have a decision to make. Do you have rabbits you can foster him to? Or know a friend with a litter? or you want to try putting kit in the nestbox and see if she'll care for him? If they are housed outside and he's a singleton kit he will NOT be able to keep warm by himself. So you'd have to bring them in the house, OR bring the kit in the house to keep warm and bring out twice a day for feeding (you may have help or supervise that) So you might be looking at handfeeding a kit or hard culling him. I have no luck trying to save wee babies, but others have the necessary skills. Not sure where you fall into.

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

I think I'll put him with her soon because it's not clear if he's moving