I was tilling in the garden last night and rototilled right through a Rabbit den. I rescued three babies but one had a compound fracture on the rear leg and I had to put him down(that never gets easy 
). The other two are still alive but not in great shape. Cottontails are difficult to rear but with injuries even more so. I fed them some Goats milk last night and will also see if they will take greens tonight. They look old enough to start solid foods. Wish me luck.
You know the cautions about tularemia, right?
The odds of that are like slim to none. Iām not worried about it.
Good luck and my sympathies.
Tiny little thing. 
Good luck, I hope they do well.
Ridiculously cute.
Very cute indeed!
(what if they grow up? 
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Yes they are. They appear to be the same model as the ones around here.
Once in a while, our female dog catches one. Thank goodness she dispatches them quickly when she does. She always looks like she is about to partake in a delicious steak meal when she lays down to eat one.
EDIT: Best wishes on rehabbing them. Iād do the same if it wasnāt for my domesticated beasties.
Yah, I knowā¦ The forum name probably leads people to think Iām a cold blooded meat eating KILLER. This is only partly true. Iāve been killing and eating meat my whole life but I also have a real soft spot for helpless animals. Just last week I rescued about a thousand Tree Frog Tadpoles from my neighbors pool before he added chemicals. Theyāre happily grazing on the algae in my pond now.
Nah, Iāll just release the Bunnies if/when they get mature enough. I like having them around. Cottontails donāt have the āboom/bustā cycles like Jack-Rabbits do. Thereās never enough to do much harm to the garden.
Looks yummy! Good luck raising them!
I do āfeel your painā over the injured one. Just because we eat them, doesnāt mean we should be mean to them; so I think you did the Right Thing. Not that that makes it any easier.
If it helps any, Darwin has a Theory about rabbits who build nests in gardensā¦ It was just your turn to close the loop.
If youāre planning on building the other two a cage, be sure to put the wire/screen on the inside ā and use bailing wire to hold the wire panels together. Donāt ask me how I know that! Or donāt use any wood at all (I wish Iād known that!) ā¦ A growing rabbit can make a 2x4 disappear before you have time to do anything about it!
We had some White Dwarf Pigmy Rabbits for pets. If I still had them, I could collect some of their wet night pellets to feed to the babies. Hopefully they ate enough of their mothers wet droppings to develop a good crop of gut flora/ bacteria. If notā¦ They will surely die. Years ago the fish and wildlife agencyās winter fed starving Deer and Elk Alfalfa pellets but they continued to starve to death because their gut had no bacteria present to digest rich foods. If I can get the Bunnies to gain weight on solid foods, they should make it.
They saw the look in your eye. And knew they had to get the hell out of there, right quick! :laughing:
I learned from my Grandpa about giving them something to chew on. He liked using limbs trimmed from his fruit orchards. He had a big lean too on one side of the milk barn just for raising meat Rabbits. He was about 75 years old when I saw him run down a wild Cottontail Rabbit with a Smelt dip net in the hay field. He raised a family through the depression and learned to get by on nothing.
Tularemia? Lol you must be from the city. My area gets a lot of tourists in the summer. Itās always hilarious when they are terrified of such creatures as the incredibly vicious whitetail deer.
My Doberman came across this little guy a couple years back. Heās a 100 pound intact male that has no desire to hurt anything. Go figureā¦ Anyway this little guy was just a bit too young and I was unable to get him to eat anything. At least I tried.
My Grandma helped me and my brother raise a few that the dog caught but then again Grandma probably couldāve raised the dead with a little Mercurochrome and Bag Balm 
That litle thing is so cute
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I saw your name and for a second I thought you were gonna eat themā¦ 
Oh wow! We must have had the same Grandma. The red burning stuff went on anything that bled and the tin of Bag Balm went on everything else!
Actually, the thread title led me to believe you plowed up three LuminTop flashlights with the bunny logo. It is a flashlight forum.
Killforfood, i donāt kill for food. You had a lot of guts to stop the suffering of the bunny with the injured leg. Respect to you man. (or woman.)