posted 2 months ago
One of our nursing rabbits seems to have a case of mastitis--all of the nipples are red/inflamed. We've separated the doe from her 11 kits and are now scrambling to figure out how to (1) treat her mastitis and (2) and whether or not we need to hand feed her many little babies. The kits are just 5 days old, so really little and not ready to transition to non-milk food. We're looking for advice. The internet is not very clear on what to do in either situation. I'm not even sure that we needed to separate her from her kits.
Last night, we fed the doe some doxy dissolved in water from a syringe (because that is what we have on hand) and plan to dose her every 12 hours. We plan to feed the kits with kitten milk replacer this morning. Okay, that's about where we are at with this. Thank you!