How Do You Feed Baby Rats Sugar Water?
Like many baby animals, rats are best cared for by their mothers or by foster mothers who feed them natural milk. That cannot always be the case, however, and some people choose to raise orphaned baby rats. As a temporary substitute for mother’s milk or formula, you can feed a baby rat a sugar-water mixture that will sustain the animal for the first few days of its orphanage. Pour the water in a small baby bottle. Add sugar and salt. Stir the mixture thoroughly until all sugar and salt has dissolved. Pour the mixture into a syringe and attach a small feeding tube to the top of the syringe; the tube’s feeding end will be about the same size as a mother rat’s nipple. Weigh the rat before feeding. Feed the rat 5 percent of its body weight in grams. For example, if a baby rat weighs 6 g, multiply six by .05 (5 percent) to determine the amount of food it should eat. This rat should eat .3 ml of sugar water. Feed a baby rat every two to three hours during the day and once in the middle of th
