Discover (and save!) 4 Formula: Raccoon milk is high in fat, protein, and calories. Jul 4, 2013 - This Pin was discovered by Jamie Brammer. You really need to get ahold of a conservation department to purchase a legal permit to raise the abandoned baby. Don’t feed them upside down.

Then ¼ + ¾ etc. baby raccoons. Most litters of raccoons contain two to five offspring, known as kits. (Canned milk, water, egg yoke, corn syrup). A baby raccoon for the first two months of their life are helpless and are depended on their mother for survival. Baby Raccoon Risks. Give ¾ hydrating formula + ¼ formula. Discover (and save!) From the first few days of life to 31 days, raccoon kits can be fed warm, reconstituted infant kitten (some use dog) milk replacer through a plastic 1ml pipette whose end has been smoothed over a lighter. I tried putting sugar on the nipple, but they don't care. Raccoon population has sky-rocketed over the past years. Baby raccoons, or kits, in the wild drink their mother's milk until they are approximately eight or nine weeks old, after which they begin to eat solid foods such as plants, nuts, berries, insects, frogs and rodents. your own Pins on Pinterest The first stool you see from a rescued orphan will usually be dark in colour, but once the baby is digesting milk formula, the stool should be firm and a golden brown colour. You can guestimate that: A 100-gram or less baby is a week or less old (very light hair fuzz) (4 ½ -6” nose-end of tail) KMR used to be the replacement formula of choice until the company changed the formula.

We can't give them to a wild animal place because they want to charge us $20 each raccoon! Next feeding ½ + ½. Try to hold the baby in a semi-horizontal position – much as its natural mother would. I know the nipple has a hole, the milk comes out. These babies are weaned at 7 to 16 weeks. Mine ate dogfood and anything else it wanted. Wean the baby from the rehydration fluids onto the KMR formula over a day or two, depending on how dehydrated it is.
By the end of 12 weeks, the cubs slowly start to explore the world around them, but they wouldn’t leave their mother’s vicinity.

My baby raccoons won't eat the milk mix we made for them! Nov 10, 2012 - This Pin was discovered by Funny Gags. your own Pins on Pinterest Whats wrong? Babies rely on their mothers to find safe shelters, and female raccoons frequently choose chimneys as denning sites. Generally born in late spring, young raccoons are at high risk of starvation because they have little time to build up fat reserves before winter. Keep it on the milk, but you can feed it anything. They constantly scraem because they are hungry,but don't want to eat off the bottle. Raccoons residing in urban areas are also known to sift through trash cans for food.