Hesperus
Warren Veteran
Hi everyone,
As some of you remember Ludo went into stasis in January.
The cause then was identified as his care plus junior nuggets which are cereal based, although he wasn't getting huge amounts (he wasn't that old then though and that was the food he was eating until we moved him over onto Excel as an adult). As a consequence he's been banned from all non-grass based foods, including fenugreek crunchies.
Now he's just 8 months old. His diet is now less than an eggcup of Excel pellets but split into two feeds a day, fresh hay, then a small amount of fresh leafy greens and herbs. He also has access to tree branches and whatnot. The only extras are dandelion rolls which are made from grass and dandelion. He's been on this diet since January with no major problems. He does seem to cope with fresh greens and herbs better than pellets I must say.
This morning I woke up, went in to have my morning cuddle and to check his poops- to my horror discovered only a half his normal poop output and even worse than that, a few small dark brown poops that were the wrong texture entirely (they were normal poops though not abandoned cecals). Panic panic run downstairs shout at mum! I rang the vet got an appointment for this afternoon. Cleaned him out entirely and took out all of his hay and replaced with new. I only fed him 4-5 pellets this morning and then let him have a bit of exercise and left him to eat hay in peace. When I came back after a few hours of Neighbours, he'd eaten tonnes of the fresh hay (not that the old stuff was older than 8 hours) and the clean litter area showed much nicer poos, all much bigger, all golden and crumbly, only one or two a funny shape. So I rang the vet and cancelled, because I could go tomorrow if needs be (this vet open on Sunday) and he is vet phobic so there is always a chance of worsening stasis by taking him.
I forgot to mention in Feb once the small poop thing happened before, not quite so bad, but again, it was resolved by a hay only diet and building back up...
Questions:
1) What could be making him so sensitive? Would the vet be able to tell me? He's some sort of large mini lop or small dwarf lop, I know they're prone to dental problems, but are they prone to stasis too? The good thing is he's a real hay monster. I really do feel I feed him well if I do say so myself.
2) Yesterday he ate Excel country herbs mix, nothing in that is bad is it... that's the only thing new he's had, he had about 5 pieces.
3) Could it just be bad luck that I've got a stasis-prone bunny?
4) Would he perhaps be best on a hay and veg only diet?
Thanks all :wave:
As some of you remember Ludo went into stasis in January.
The cause then was identified as his care plus junior nuggets which are cereal based, although he wasn't getting huge amounts (he wasn't that old then though and that was the food he was eating until we moved him over onto Excel as an adult). As a consequence he's been banned from all non-grass based foods, including fenugreek crunchies.
Now he's just 8 months old. His diet is now less than an eggcup of Excel pellets but split into two feeds a day, fresh hay, then a small amount of fresh leafy greens and herbs. He also has access to tree branches and whatnot. The only extras are dandelion rolls which are made from grass and dandelion. He's been on this diet since January with no major problems. He does seem to cope with fresh greens and herbs better than pellets I must say.
This morning I woke up, went in to have my morning cuddle and to check his poops- to my horror discovered only a half his normal poop output and even worse than that, a few small dark brown poops that were the wrong texture entirely (they were normal poops though not abandoned cecals). Panic panic run downstairs shout at mum! I rang the vet got an appointment for this afternoon. Cleaned him out entirely and took out all of his hay and replaced with new. I only fed him 4-5 pellets this morning and then let him have a bit of exercise and left him to eat hay in peace. When I came back after a few hours of Neighbours, he'd eaten tonnes of the fresh hay (not that the old stuff was older than 8 hours) and the clean litter area showed much nicer poos, all much bigger, all golden and crumbly, only one or two a funny shape. So I rang the vet and cancelled, because I could go tomorrow if needs be (this vet open on Sunday) and he is vet phobic so there is always a chance of worsening stasis by taking him.
I forgot to mention in Feb once the small poop thing happened before, not quite so bad, but again, it was resolved by a hay only diet and building back up...
Questions:
1) What could be making him so sensitive? Would the vet be able to tell me? He's some sort of large mini lop or small dwarf lop, I know they're prone to dental problems, but are they prone to stasis too? The good thing is he's a real hay monster. I really do feel I feed him well if I do say so myself.
2) Yesterday he ate Excel country herbs mix, nothing in that is bad is it... that's the only thing new he's had, he had about 5 pieces.
3) Could it just be bad luck that I've got a stasis-prone bunny?
4) Would he perhaps be best on a hay and veg only diet?
Thanks all :wave:
