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Been to the vets today!

LeahsRabbits

Warren Scout
Hi everyone, I don't know if you saw my thread a couple of weeks back regarding Blossom leaving his cecals. Him and Leo are both doing it, but we only took Blossom as we only had 1 carrier, but the vet has given us something for both of them.

They said the leaving of the cecals could be down to 3 things - An imbalance of the gut flora, worms, or stress from the divider in the shed. She gave us some Bio-Lapis probiotics for their water (which Blossom hates, but Leo doesn't seem to mind) and some panacur wormer which they took on a fenugreek crunchie without any problem.

Let's hope this will sort the pair of them out!

Is there any way I can encourage Blossom to drink it from his bowl? It said put one sachet with every 50ml of water, so I put 100ml in each of their bowls and 2 sachet's, but I ended up having to add more water because it wasn't dissolving properly!
 
I wouldn't put it in water, I washed a tub with some biolapis in and soaked it.. it started growing :shock:

I just emptied it over veg and/or forage.
 
The can't have veg atm because of the cecal problem, and i'd already fed them so I had no choice but to put it in water. If no drank by tomorrow i'll soak some grass or something in it, and feed it to them that way
 
I think it was expanding after a few hours, but weird to watch but I guess it's only good bacteria :lol: the only problem I had with it was the smell! Charlie wouldn't touch it unless it was mixed with a crunched up fibrefirst stick, Leo has been good and eating it with his veg though. Also taking his panacur off a fenugreek crunchie.. For once!
 
The vet has only given us enough of the bio-lapis for 2 days, but online it says give it to them for 5 days :/ I've used up 4 sachets today as i've put 2 sachets in each bowl with 100ml of water and now I only have 2 sachet's left..
 
Could you go and get some more? I was only treating one rabbit at a time so I would have thought they would have given you enough. Our vet said 5 days but there were 6 sachets so we rang up and she said the extra day would be fine.
 
Could you go and get some more? I was only treating one rabbit at a time so I would have thought they would have given you enough. Our vet said 5 days but there were 6 sachets so we rang up and she said the extra day would be fine.

We've paid enough with vet bills :( I don't know what to do now...
 
How much did they charge you for the biolapis?

I don't have a clue lol! We told her it was for 2 bunnies and she said there would be enough.. Maybe she said that because they don't need to be on it for 5 days? If I was going to give both of them the biolapis for 5 days i'd need 10 sachets.. She must of only given me 6 for a reason
 
Hmmm, weird! It's not expensive, about £5 for a 6 sachet box so if you did need more you shouldn't have to pay a lot if you just picked more up :)
 
Hmmm, weird! It's not expensive, about £5 for a 6 sachet box so if you did need more you shouldn't have to pay a lot if you just picked more up :)

I just don't see why she'd give me 6 if she didn't think it'd be enough .. She seemed to know what she was talking about, i'll just have to see!
 
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