HELP! My rabbit is now refusing to nurse her 2 day old kits. She has been caring for them til now. What to do?

Sent this to a vet in our collective.

I would call the nearest Priest since the gestational period of a rabbit is 30–31 days you are about to experience a miracle.

Look for rabbit breeders in your area. They will be able to give you advice and, if the problem persists, will likely help you find a foster mother.

Baby rabbits are very hard to hand raise, you will need to find out the proper replacement formula for bottle feeding. A kitten or puppy milk replacement, KMR for kittens and Esbilac for puppies, but I don’t know which one would be preferable.
There may be another formula on the market for rabbits that I don’t know of. At 2 days old they will need to be fed every couple hours around the clock and stimulated to urinate and defecate which the mother does by licking.

You need to talk to a vet asap as the babies cannot go for hours and hours without food and they will become dehydrated and weak very quickly.
Call your vet immediately for help.

thanks for all your advice! there were 4 kits, the first one did not come out right and died immediately. the 2nd one (after doing some research) I figured was a peanut, it died yesterday. And then the 3rd one died a while ago. i saw the mother step on the poor kit. now what I did was I took away the last one. Did some more research and I tried helping the kit get milk. so the whole time I was stroking the doe. after about 5 mins I tuck the kit in its warmed nest box away from the doe. I took a Q tip, rubbed it round the doe’s anus and rubbed it on the kit. I then took the kit and flashed it in front of the doe. She smelled the kit then I put it near her. She let the kit suckle. (sorry this is too long) But NOW the kit is in the nest box and the doe appears to be sitting on top of her for like 30 til now. Any advice if the doe will take care of the kit from now on? Thank you!

I have a friend who is a rabbit breeder, and she has said in the past that some does just aren’t good mothers. She has one doe that she keeps in milk that will foster anything you stick in her box. That doe takes up the slack for the deadbeat moms.

Sometimes, though, kits just die. Part of the game of life. When my friend’s kits are not viable, she euthanizes them by putting them in the freezer.

I’m afraid I don’t know much about rabbit breeding; finding a breeder in your area if probably your best bet.