Hi Folks,
Well we've had a terrible last 48 hours to top a really bad few weeks.
I will start from the beginning.
As some of you know I recently took 12 wild x baby rabbits from Caroline (bunnyrun). As always I am fostering them until rescue space becomes available and help with there neutering where possible.
We lost two of the younger baby rabbits (6 weeks old) within 24 hours of each other from bloat (we had to have the 2nd one PTS). We assumed the long journey from Eastbourne to us had been too much for them. Within a few days we lost a third. He/she had a fit in my hands while I was checking nails/bums etc. Yesterday we lost a fourth again down to bloat.
Regrettably my normal vet wont travel this far on call as we are quite a trot from them. We had a local vet out twice to administer gut stimulants, pain relief injections and sadly to help one to the bridge. As they were so young it was suggested not to start them on Panacur in case of EC until they were 8 weeks old. We had them on heat pads and probiotics.
The above four were from a litter of five and the remaining baby seems fine. Eating well, toileting normaly etc.
Within the last 48 hours four of my other foster rabbits have become ill.
Firstly my sisters rabbit who I ams supposed to be getting neuterd seems to have had a stroke as he keeps walking into things and has a glazed look. He also has bloat. He's on panacur, pain relief and infacol.
The three others have all got bloat. Two have had diarrhea. Again they are on infacol/pain relief etc. All four are anorexic and not taking fluids
As I type I'm waiting for my normal vets to ring my back to see if I can get an emergency appointment for all four this evening.
I've been racking my brains to try and think what has caused this.
I've checked expiry dates on there food and its all fine. I've bought a new bale of hay and I've ordered a new sack of pellets and dried grass which should be here in a few days. I've completely stopped there veg. Everything has been completely scrubbed/disinfectanted several times.
So far none of my own rabbits are showing any symptoms and they are on the same food/bedding etc.
The only connection I can make is that everyone started to get ill after the wild x rabbits arrived. But as far as I am aware rabbits cant pass on "bugs" onto each other so to speak.
Has anyone got any advice/suggestions?
Louise
Well we've had a terrible last 48 hours to top a really bad few weeks.
I will start from the beginning.
As some of you know I recently took 12 wild x baby rabbits from Caroline (bunnyrun). As always I am fostering them until rescue space becomes available and help with there neutering where possible.
We lost two of the younger baby rabbits (6 weeks old) within 24 hours of each other from bloat (we had to have the 2nd one PTS). We assumed the long journey from Eastbourne to us had been too much for them. Within a few days we lost a third. He/she had a fit in my hands while I was checking nails/bums etc. Yesterday we lost a fourth again down to bloat.
Regrettably my normal vet wont travel this far on call as we are quite a trot from them. We had a local vet out twice to administer gut stimulants, pain relief injections and sadly to help one to the bridge. As they were so young it was suggested not to start them on Panacur in case of EC until they were 8 weeks old. We had them on heat pads and probiotics.
The above four were from a litter of five and the remaining baby seems fine. Eating well, toileting normaly etc.
Within the last 48 hours four of my other foster rabbits have become ill.
Firstly my sisters rabbit who I ams supposed to be getting neuterd seems to have had a stroke as he keeps walking into things and has a glazed look. He also has bloat. He's on panacur, pain relief and infacol.
The three others have all got bloat. Two have had diarrhea. Again they are on infacol/pain relief etc. All four are anorexic and not taking fluids
As I type I'm waiting for my normal vets to ring my back to see if I can get an emergency appointment for all four this evening.
I've been racking my brains to try and think what has caused this.
I've checked expiry dates on there food and its all fine. I've bought a new bale of hay and I've ordered a new sack of pellets and dried grass which should be here in a few days. I've completely stopped there veg. Everything has been completely scrubbed/disinfectanted several times.
So far none of my own rabbits are showing any symptoms and they are on the same food/bedding etc.
The only connection I can make is that everyone started to get ill after the wild x rabbits arrived. But as far as I am aware rabbits cant pass on "bugs" onto each other so to speak.
Has anyone got any advice/suggestions?
Louise
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