Rabbits, especially baby rabbits can easily go blind. How you ask? Well, around 10 days old, the babies begin opening their eyes up for the first time. While this is a very good thing, you have to be careful that their eyes do not then close back up.
This baby bunny is one of Peanuts'. The eye facing you is perfectly fine and nicely opened. The other eye on this baby keeps sealing shut and the eyeball is now coated in a thick layer of white film. This means it's left eye is permanently blind.
Every single day, my mother and I open the baby's eye up and warm water, and then apply a drop of medication which will keep the eyelids from swelling up and also hopefully kill off the infection. Yet every day, we go out to see the eye has sealed shut again.
The same thing happened with another one of Peanuts' babies. Except for this baby, both its eyes keep sealing up, and we keep reopening them with warm water, then adding a drop of medication.
This baby's eyes do not look as bad as the other baby's eye does, however we believe this one will be completely blind in both eyes.
You can see that the eyelids on this baby are swelled. It's extremely sad that this happened. However, it's not something that can be helped. We're doing all we can for these two babies and hopefully we'll manage to be able to keep their eyes from sealing up permanently. For now though, we just have to keep patient and help them as best we can.
Other than these two with their eyes, the babies are all doing very well. I've never had an issue with babies and their eyes before, so when Peanuts' has another litter, I'm going to keep close watch and make sure they don't have the same issue also.
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