Od this Holand lop a peanut?

[Karolina]

Hello, This is the first litter in my rabbitry. Babies are 4 days old Holland lops. How do you think, is this little one a peanut? His belly skin is wrinkled, his ears are small. I'm trying to feed him, but I don't know if there's any point in continuing to fight. I have no experience with peanuts.

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

No. They look like just a runt
Are you trying to bottle or syringe feed? There's a low chance of that working, so I suggest getting a Doe with a litter out and placing them on her to feed

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

Second going right is Chip when he was a baby. He was a runt, but his proportions weren't that of a peanut's

 

[Karolina]

No. They look like just a runt
Are you trying to bottle or syringe feed? There's a low chance of that working, so I suggest getting a Doe with a litter out and placing them on her to feed

On the photo they are 3days old. On the left there is a normal one, on the right a little one. I am feeding him by a bottle- few times a day, milk for a kittens.

 

[Karolina]

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Second going right is Chip when he was a baby. He was a runt, but his proportions weren't that of a peanut's

Thank you for a photo. Chip looks similiar.

 

[Karolina]

No. They look like just a runt
Are you trying to bottle or syringe feed? There's a low chance of that working, so I suggest getting a Doe with a litter out and placing them on her to feed

I was afraid to put him to mother's breast because it was her first pregnancy. She comes to me, but she doesn't like when I try to hold or touch her. I'm afraid that if she gets scared, she'll leave the rest of the littermates. As I see she is a good mother to another babies.

 

[user 9638]

I had a kit pass a couple days ago due to the same issue you have, it was a runt and I flipped the mom over and the kit was feeding off of her and the mom didn't mind and she still is feeding the rest of the litter. Sadly the runt was not getting enough food out of it so it passed away, but since your bottle feeding it aswell yours has a good chance of living. I have flipped over first time mom's event the sassy ones and they didn't stop feeding their kits, but it is your choice as the breeder especially if she is a bit timid.

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

Thankfully we had two nursing Does so if Chip finished feeding on one we could get the other Doe out. We also took the nest boxes and put them in a safe place (In the middle of a closed floor cage) so he had more to eat

 

[Karolina]

I had a kit pass a couple days ago due to the same issue you have, it was a runt and I flipped the mom over and the kit was feeding off of her and the mom didn't mind and she still is feeding the rest of the litter. Sadly the runt was not getting enough food out of it so it passed away, but since your bottle feeding it aswell yours has a good chance of living. I have flipped over first time mom's event the sassy ones and they didn't stop feeding their kits, but it is your choice as the breeder especially if she is a bit timid.

Hello, today it is a 5th day. For me it doesn't look good

 

[Alaska Satin]

Hello, today it is a 5th day. For me it doesn't look good

The size of the ears and the dome-like skull say peanut to me. The longest I've ever had a peanut survive was a week. I am always torn between letting them "try" (they never make it) and putting them out of their misery. Once they hit the point where they are obviously starving is the tipping point for me.
It's the hardest part of raising dwarf breeds. I tend to keep false dwarf does as breeders for that reason. I doesn't ever seem to get easier.

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

Hello, today it is a 5th day. For me it doesn't look good

Poor little guy

 

[ladysown]

He has some but not all the markers of a peanut (the head bulbous and ear set are classic) but it looks like his back feet work (and normally they don't work so well).

When they look like that.. honestly, it's best to cull them. It takes very little to kill them and it's better than letting them suffer.