Hi good luck! You need to be sure to keep it warm. Holding it is a good start, blowing warm breath on it helps too. To get it to eat you may also try, while you're feeding it, rubbing your finger down it's chest (that can encourage it to swallow). Don't do it roughly, you want to apply about the same pressure as a cat's lick. Also be sure to wake up regularly throughout the night to feed it just like you would with a new born. Actually a good way to keep it warm through the night could be a hot water bottle with a cozy on it. Again, good luck! You might want to frequently try reintroducing it to the mother too. She may take it back once she sees it getting healthier. It may seem cruel, but often when an animal won't care for it's young usually for one of several reasons: it has too many young to care for, it's enclosure is too small for the amount of young it has (if it's an often caged pet, it may be neglecting it's young because it fears they'll be competition for space and resources), it shows some sign of disability or weakness that makes the mother think it won't survive well (this is what I'm guessing is the case here), and sometimes (like some humans) they're just not made for parenting. Make sure you supervise them together though as the mother may decide to eat it. Oh, another reason they don't always feed their young is if humans they don't fully know or trust have been touching them. I'm assuming that's not the case here, but this is why it's best to not touch young animals outside of these dire situations. Another tactic you can try for getting the mother to feed the bunnies equally is to time out their feedings (assuming she does trust you enough to touch her bunnies and then still feed them... and just in case you should also try this with gloves on so you don't get your scent on them, so the mother still recognises them). So basically watch which ones have been fed and for how long, after a set amount of minutes, pull the well fed ones back and move the unfed ones onto a teat. Oh and it may be rejecting the goats milk as it smells like goat. You may want to try formula instead. You can get kitten formula at the pet store (possible rabbit formula online... ours used to take to kitten formula though). Goats are far too large of animals, they have much different nutritional needs from a rabbit, so the milk could make the bunnies sick. You might try cutting it with water if that's the only thing you have access to.
Hi good luck! You need to be sure to keep it warm. Holding it is a good start, blowing warm breath on it helps too. To get it to eat you may also try, while you're feeding it, rubbing your finger down it's chest (that can encourage it to swallow). Don't do it roughly, you want to apply about the same pressure as a cat's lick. Also be sure to wake up regularly throughout the night to feed it just like you would with a new born. Actually a good way to keep it warm through the night could be a hot water bottle with a cozy on it. Again, good luck! You might want to frequently try reintroducing it to the mother too. She may take it back once she sees it getting healthier. It may seem cruel, but often when an animal won't care for it's young usually for one of several reasons: it has too many young to care for, it's enclosure is too small for the amount of young it has (if it's an often caged pet, it may be neglecting it's young because it fears they'll be competition for space and resources), it shows some sign of disability or weakness that makes the mother think it won't survive well (this is what I'm guessing is the case here), and sometimes (like some humans) they're just not made for parenting. Make sure you supervise them together though as the mother may decide to eat it. Oh, another reason they don't always feed their young is if humans they don't fully know or trust have been touching them. I'm assuming that's not the case here, but this is why it's best to not touch young animals outside of these dire situations. Another tactic you can try for getting the mother to feed the bunnies equally is to time out their feedings (assuming she does trust you enough to touch her bunnies and then still feed them... and just in case you should also try this with gloves on so you don't get your scent on them, so the mother still recognises them). So basically watch which ones have been fed and for how long, after a set amount of minutes, pull the well fed ones back and move the unfed ones onto a teat. Oh and it may be rejecting the goats milk as it smells like goat. You may want to try formula instead. You can get kitten formula at the pet store (possible rabbit formula online... ours used to take to kitten formula though). Goats are far too large of animals, they have much different nutritional needs from a rabbit, so the milk could make the bunnies sick. You might try cutting it with water if that's the only thing you have access to.