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Worms?

paulinejoe

Mama Doe
Can buns get worms? last night i was cleaning out their bedroom, well toilet :roll: bit, and noticed a white 'thing' i wondered if it was a worm then thought it was probably just a bit of wet newspaper and that i couldn't see properly what it was in the dark so binned it.

It;s been bothering me ever since though. I'm just on the hay experts website getting a basket ready for payday next tuesday (woo hoo!) and notice they sell something called 'verm-x' nuggets which are for 'internal parasites'

Has anyone any experience of these? and can rabbits get actual worms? if so would these natural nuggets get rid of them or are they only a preventative mesaure? Or should I be whipping them off to the vets?

Thanks :wave:
 
They can get pin worms. A course of panacur should do the trick. I think the 9 days is sufficent if its just worms you are treating as opposed to EC.
 
Thanks :) I've just googled pinworms images and it came up with a thread from here from last year lol and it definitely doesn't look like that at all, so i'm sure it will be as i suspected, a bit of shredded newspaper that had got wet. They are off to the vets next week for their vacs so will mention it to her then and enquire about the panacur.
 
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