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Post VHD injection

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bertie_botts

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hi all

Had Bert vaccinated on tuesday (had myxi two weeks before) he was fine after the first one but this one has really knocked him, he is eating, drinking but not as much as usual and is pooing fine. He seems down sleeping alot, not coming out of hutch much (he is a house bun) and has a bit of a runny nose and sneezes on occasion is this related to the injection?
 
Honey didn't eat after her VHD so I took her back to the vets. I think some rabbits do have a bit of a reaction to the vaccination.
 
Two of mine had their VHD friday and yesterday Eeyore wasn't eating and is still a bit quiet but eating today. He did get stressed at the vets tho so I thought it was stress but could have been a reaction, none of mine have had any bad reactions before :?
 
One of mine had her VHD 3 weeks ago on a Sat morning. She was fine all day and by 9pm she would not eat anything. I was about to panic when I came on here to find that this could happen. Went back to see her and she was nibbling at hay quite a bit but would not take any pellets or veg. She was fine the following morning. I have read it can last a few days though.
 
bertie_botts said:
is a runny nose common post VHD?
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If your bun is a snuffly bun then having a vaccine can divert the immune system from the snuffles to the vaccine - it's the reason I didn't vaccinate my Joey last year as he'd had a really bad bout of snuffles.
Having said that he's getting his jabs done next week as the risk of myxo is too high compared to him getting snuffly.
 
When mine have VHD jabs about half of them react by being 'tired and off their food' for a day. They look as if they have a headache or something (in human terms). Strangely its the males that are like this (wimps!!)

After a day they are fine again.
 
I was warned after my buns' VHD vaccs they may be less active and eat less for a few days afterwoulds. Though it didn't affect my two:rolleyes:
 
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