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Help !

Elle07

New Kit
Any advice would be great full !
We have two female rabbits, unfortunately we went out one morning to clean the cage and the latch must of been loose and they were gone !
Luckily they were still living under our shed, though time we managed to catch them around a week apart from each other.
around a week later again we went to clean the hutch and found two lots of kits ! So we assumed they had bred with a wild male,
The kits were doing great, little fat bellies ,we think they were around 3-4 weeks old,up until a week ago, when each day one or two would die, sadly the last two died this morning, and also we have lost one of the mothers,
what could have caused this ?
Could it be fighting ?
We are stumped and of course sad
Thanks
 
I am very sorry :cry: Without a Post Mortem examination it's impossible to say what may have caused the losses. But the possibility of RHD/RHD2 cannot be ignored. Kits under 4 weeks of age are usually unaffected by RHD/RHD2, but after that they become increasingly susceptible.

*WARNING THE LINK CONTAINS AN IMAGE WHICH MAY BE DISTRESSING TO SEE, BUT THE TEXT IN THE LINK CONTAINS VALUABLE INFORMATION ABOUT RHD/RHD2*


https://www.harcourt-brown.co.uk/articles/infectious-disease/rabbit-haemorrhagic-disease

Again, I am very sorry for your losses :cry:
 
Could they have caught a disease of the wild rabbits? So sorry to hear of your losses :( xx

Yes this is certainly possible. It could also have been the stress and shock of it all as well.

I'm so sorry for your losses. Please stay around if you wish, you are welcome here :wave:
 
may I ask whereabouts you are? certain areas of the country appear to be suffering more with outbreaks of disease than others and this would be helpful to know. (a region or nearest large town)

I am so sorry for your loss. A disease seems most likely.
 
Hi all, thanks for your replies,
Just to answer some of your questions !
No I don't think our rabbits were vaccinated, a freind gave us them.
I live in a village in south Lanarkshire, Scotland,
I assumed it was some sort of desease as there was no sign of trauma to the bodies, they seemed fine one minute then they would get lethargic and fall on their sides, acting dizzy and it almost looked like they were having a fit ?
When I checked on the remaining two last night they were running around fine, what ever it is it acts super quick !
The other mother seems fine ?!
Thank you for your replies and condolences, my daughter is very upset so giving her an answer would make things a bit better for her !
 
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