Baby wild rabbit

This little girl was brought in by a vet, she was taken into the surgery when she was found disorientated and wandering on her own far from a safe ‘rabbit’ environment.   She’s a wild rabbit and we are hoping to keep it that way so that we can release her when she is fully reared.   We’ve called her Fern and she’s a sweet little thing, eating well now she is over her initial shock at being in such close proximity to humans.   Brambles are her favourite food with dandelions a close second.  Rabbits, whether they are wild or not, need mostly natural food and plenty of hay.  They should only have a small amount of concentrated grain.  Fern eats well and snuggles up in a hay burrow when she’s full.  We think she’s around five weeks old – if she’d been smaller she would have need bottle feeding.   We have our own ‘watership down’ with plenty of scrub, bushes, brambles and other rabbits, so hopefully we’ll be letting her go when it’s a nice warm sunny day and she’s all grown up.