hello again - some of you will have read my post in late November/early December about the sudden deaths of my 2 beauties
With the help of my fantastic vet we have had tests done at edinburgh and then in france to try to determine cause of death. The main concern was that it was a new strain of VHD (of which there are apparently several, I know now due to the power of www). One of the drug companies paid for all the tests.
Anyway, it was definitely not VHD and although there is still some doubt, the cause appears to have been mycotoxins :shock:
Someone did suggest this on my original post (thank you).
Whilst it doesn't bring my bunsters back and I'm still beating myself up about the whole thing, from my research into mycotoxins it would appear that they could have taken them in from any number of sources as they had a wide and very varied diet including severla types of hay, pellets, muesli and dried herbs as well as all the green stuff.
Anyway, just wanted to share. if you haven't read about mycotoxins my hard-learned advice is - do it now.
I will be looking at new bunsters after my holiday in April to inhabit the lovely 12 foot covered kennel/run I have standing empty so if anyone knows of any rexes or mini rexes who are in need and not too far from Northumberland, I'm interested. I haven't looked at Rabbits in Need yet but I will.
thanks for reading.
Binky free my special bunsters, you were the first and will always be the best
With the help of my fantastic vet we have had tests done at edinburgh and then in france to try to determine cause of death. The main concern was that it was a new strain of VHD (of which there are apparently several, I know now due to the power of www). One of the drug companies paid for all the tests.
Anyway, it was definitely not VHD and although there is still some doubt, the cause appears to have been mycotoxins :shock:
Someone did suggest this on my original post (thank you).
Whilst it doesn't bring my bunsters back and I'm still beating myself up about the whole thing, from my research into mycotoxins it would appear that they could have taken them in from any number of sources as they had a wide and very varied diet including severla types of hay, pellets, muesli and dried herbs as well as all the green stuff.
Anyway, just wanted to share. if you haven't read about mycotoxins my hard-learned advice is - do it now.
I will be looking at new bunsters after my holiday in April to inhabit the lovely 12 foot covered kennel/run I have standing empty so if anyone knows of any rexes or mini rexes who are in need and not too far from Northumberland, I'm interested. I haven't looked at Rabbits in Need yet but I will.
thanks for reading.
Binky free my special bunsters, you were the first and will always be the best