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Oh no! Rabbits are so fragile....I hope her kits all stay healthy! Sending you a big mental hug and also a hand disinfecting your pens so whatever she had doesn’t spread!

Oh I hope they make it. Thank god they have at least started nibbling on hay. But they were very thankful to get a meal from a syringe this afternoon. They are tre prettiest things ever too.

I don't think it is anything that can spread. Pretty sure she had han an infection of some sort, probably mastitis. She went down hill pretty fast. I wish I would have taken her in last night, but she was on her feet and we got some banana and water into her, and I got her kits to drain her teats pretty good, so I didn't want to have to pay night rates at the vets. Sad to say, but when the rabbits are food I have to be a bit cynical. If she didn't have such young kits I might have just ended it last night. Or maybe I wouldn't, as she was the sweetest bunny ever.

Oh, so sorry to hear that! Hugs to you and strength to the babies!

Thank you all <3 The babies have already found out where food will be coming from, and now when I open the door to their cage, they all come running into my hands. It will be hard to send these ones off to freezer camp. I am planning on keeping one for the future (or maybe two or three, but don't tell my fiancé). I need to keep a part of her around.<br />
@supersarah They are very easy to foster, as the kits does not have a scent (to not attract predators). I will foster kits with up to a weeks age difference, although I prefer less, as it is easy for the bigger kits to push the smaller ones aside. The mothers could not care less. I have never tried to foster kits that have started to move around outside the nest though.