Hi. Three days ago, my step dad was digging in the backyard and accidently hit a nest of rabbits with a shovel. There were three of them, and only one was killed, and he put the dead one on the other side of the landscape and burried it, and covered the spot with grass clippings. He told us about it then, and we didnt worry about it till the next day.
Well I went outside to check on the nest where the live bunnys were, and apparently something had put the dead rabbit back into the nest, and there were tons of flys arround it, so I scoped it up with the shovel and threw it away. Checked the next day, and they were alright. I checked them today, but decided to take a look at one of them, and thought there was sawdust on its belly, but after looking closer, I noticed that it was a mat of fly eggs, and they where also all under its fur.
My question is, What do I do? My moms a nurse, so I told her to bring some lice combs home, but will that help? The sites on the internet made it sound like at this point, even if we clean them they are good as dead, if any maggots got under the skin. And I can only assume this already happened, because the spot the rabbit was laying in, already had some small maggots in it.
So... ?
Well I went outside to check on the nest where the live bunnys were, and apparently something had put the dead rabbit back into the nest, and there were tons of flys arround it, so I scoped it up with the shovel and threw it away. Checked the next day, and they were alright. I checked them today, but decided to take a look at one of them, and thought there was sawdust on its belly, but after looking closer, I noticed that it was a mat of fly eggs, and they where also all under its fur.
My question is, What do I do? My moms a nurse, so I told her to bring some lice combs home, but will that help? The sites on the internet made it sound like at this point, even if we clean them they are good as dead, if any maggots got under the skin. And I can only assume this already happened, because the spot the rabbit was laying in, already had some small maggots in it.
So... ?