doorkeeper
Mama Doe
I have a doe with this condition. I have tried and tried to sort her out but she still hardly eats and hardly poos and hardly drinks. That said she has her head in the feed bowl and is munching some guinea food as I am typing this :roll: I have tried a variety of rabbit food. She won't touch my A&P pellets. She ate SS for a few days and now won't touch that either. She ate Wagg food for a few days too. The vet said she would rather she ate guinea food than vegetables so that is what she is getting. She is eating a little hay too, and the occasional blade of grass. She would eat loads of vegis if I let her, but that is contributing to her digestive problems and so I am not supposed to give them to her, she gets really mucky when she gets them. When I took her to the vet she said she felt almost completely empty except that she was sloshing from the fluids I had been giving her.
Most of the poo she does produce is covered in mucous, and she has had a very sore bottom from the mess but I have managed to get that to heal and she is no longer sore down there. I think she is eating most of the poo she produces even though it is not proper caecotrophs. She has had a course of baytril in case a urinary infection was causing trouble too. She also has bad teeth, but an anesthetic to sort that out would be dangerous at this point. The vet doesn't think they have caused this. I think that it has been caused by the diet she was fed before she came to me. Her offspring also have some digestive oddities - her daughter had bloat and then shifted her blockage and pooed and pooed and pooed and looked so happy to shift it all. Her son is here in the crate below her also having to have avipro for abnormally large irregular poos. That seems to be doing the job for him fortunatly.
She is having metacloprimide twice daily, and avipro in her water. I had been giving her infacol but stopped as it didn't seem to help, although she has produced lots of wind at various times. I gave her lots of pineapple juice in the hopes of unblocking her but all that happened is that she started that sloshing business.
The funny thing is that all through this she has been lively and active. She doesn't seem to be in pain, but is definitely far from alright. She hates being syringe fed, and bites through a syringe in no time flat. Tummy massages seem to be one of the more effective things that helps her.
The vet said that cisapride would be the best drug to help her, but that is not available anymore.
Does anyone have any other ideas?
Most of the poo she does produce is covered in mucous, and she has had a very sore bottom from the mess but I have managed to get that to heal and she is no longer sore down there. I think she is eating most of the poo she produces even though it is not proper caecotrophs. She has had a course of baytril in case a urinary infection was causing trouble too. She also has bad teeth, but an anesthetic to sort that out would be dangerous at this point. The vet doesn't think they have caused this. I think that it has been caused by the diet she was fed before she came to me. Her offspring also have some digestive oddities - her daughter had bloat and then shifted her blockage and pooed and pooed and pooed and looked so happy to shift it all. Her son is here in the crate below her also having to have avipro for abnormally large irregular poos. That seems to be doing the job for him fortunatly.
She is having metacloprimide twice daily, and avipro in her water. I had been giving her infacol but stopped as it didn't seem to help, although she has produced lots of wind at various times. I gave her lots of pineapple juice in the hopes of unblocking her but all that happened is that she started that sloshing business.
The funny thing is that all through this she has been lively and active. She doesn't seem to be in pain, but is definitely far from alright. She hates being syringe fed, and bites through a syringe in no time flat. Tummy massages seem to be one of the more effective things that helps her.
The vet said that cisapride would be the best drug to help her, but that is not available anymore.
Does anyone have any other ideas?