planet.caravan67
New Kit
This problem has been going for I don't even know how long... deffinately more than a month.. When we purchased snowball (along with another 5 bunnies) they were all between 3 weeks old and a month. She was the smallest of all of them. When we brought her home she seemed healthy and normal but then things charnged... After a while we noticed her bottom was always soiled with feces. She lived in an outdoor enclosure with her fellow bunnies and they are free to roam in a fenced off area. For a while we just didn't have the time to take care of her messy bottom problem but a couple of weeks ago I was determined to fix her. I put her in a cage and brought her inside, washed her messy bottom (no sign of fly strike) and did a whole lotta research regarding bunny diarrhea issues. At first I thought maybe she was eating too many alfalfa pellets and maybe too many fresh dandelions (I don't understand how this can be bad but oh well...) and she just needed to get her digestive tracts back on track and she could go back outside but I was wrong... Since I had her inside the cage and could carefully monitor her I noticed that not only did she have diarrhea but it was also coated in a clear jelly/mucous and sometimes she would only poop that... I have been feeding her oats, timothy hay and sometimes a little carrot and apple. I have been giving her a salt sugar water solution. Her fecal texture has improved now they are looking more like normal rabbit droppings but occasionally she does soft ones and again... The ammount of mucous she has been making has decreased but I still see some a few times a day.
From my research the closest thing I can find to what she has is mucoid enteritis. She is only skin and bones now and has a big belly. What I read about mucoid enteritis is that they die very soon and she has been like this for a LONG time. I know if she keeps going and does not get better soon she probably will die. Today I went to the pet store and purchased benebac and dritail and have begun treating her with this today...
What do you guys think? Does it sound like mucoid enteritis? Anyone else have any experiences like this and did your bunny survive? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
(also she has lost all her fur around her genital area and her tail, I guess thats due to that area being soiled with feces constantly, do you think it will grow back?)
From my research the closest thing I can find to what she has is mucoid enteritis. She is only skin and bones now and has a big belly. What I read about mucoid enteritis is that they die very soon and she has been like this for a LONG time. I know if she keeps going and does not get better soon she probably will die. Today I went to the pet store and purchased benebac and dritail and have begun treating her with this today...
What do you guys think? Does it sound like mucoid enteritis? Anyone else have any experiences like this and did your bunny survive? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
(also she has lost all her fur around her genital area and her tail, I guess thats due to that area being soiled with feces constantly, do you think it will grow back?)