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Worming

rachylou

rachylou

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Just a quick question really, just been reading some posts and a lot of you seem to worm your bunnies?
How important is this as when we have been to the vet and asked them about it they have said that it is not nessesaray due to Jims being an only house bun.
 
Hi
Both of my bunnies are wormed on my vet's advice. Not too sure if there is a difference though because mine are outside, well in the outdoor utility now. They recommend to do it between two and four times a year.
 
Is it a treatment that the vets can do? or does it have to be done at home? Jimby is virtually impossible to handle even though he is a lovely little fully man.
We are going to the vets next week so maybe I should enquire again?
Also are there any side effects to the treatment?
 
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I don't see why indoor rabbits shouldn't be wormed, as the main disease that worming prevents is E.C. which is most often passed from mother to child, so whether they are indoor or out doesn't really matter.

You can do it yourself by buying a product called Panacur for rabbits. It's a paste that comes in a dispenser and you squeeze the paste into the side of the rabbits mouth. For prevention you normally do a 9 day course of this a few times a year.
 
My vet also advised me I did not need to worm my rabbits. However I have done a one off course of 28 days as a preventative against EC as per recent guidelines from the RWA. I understand 9 days is not long enough for EC.
 
EC is passed in urine from the mother rabbit to her offspring, so all rabbits should be wormed as a precaution, regardless of wether they live indoors or out.
Panacur paste can be purchased cheaply from www.wormers.co.uk and is relatively easy to do.
I worm mine every 6 months
 
Mine are house buns and I worm them. I get my Panacur off Ebay for about £5.

My buns like it - I put the dose (its like a cream paste) in the middle of a spinach leaf, roll the leaf up and they scoff the lot.
 
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Mine are house buns and I worm them. I get my Panacur off Ebay for about £5.

My buns like it - I put the dose (its like a cream paste) in the middle of a spinach leaf, roll the leaf up and they scoff the lot.
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Brilliant! Thanks so much, I've been putting off worming them with Panacur (and had thought of trying something else), because I just couldn't see them accepting a syringe.
 
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