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Prickly bumps on rabbit

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milly100

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I have just come back from my brothers and they have 2 male rabbits who were neutered last week. In the last few days 1 of them has what feels like prickly lumps on its back. When you stroke it it feels like thorns. The other rabbit is starting to get a few as well. They were fine till they got neutered. My sister in law is going to ring the vets and ask for advice.
Anyone have any ideas what it could be??
 
I couldn't see anything visible and the buns are still eating, drinking, pooing etc. I was thinking that it may be some sort of reaction??
 
Couild be the anaesthetic?? have they had any other jabs recently???? Or medicines????
 
I will speak to my sister in law later and find out what the vet has said. If need be I will take them to the vets tomorrow for her as she is heavily pregnant and suffering extremly high blood pressure and isn't meant to be doing anything.
 
milly100 said:
I will speak to my sister in law later and find out what the vet has said. If need be I will take them to the vets tomorrow for her as she is heavily pregnant and suffering extremly high blood pressure and isn't meant to be doing anything.
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OOOH crikey...Hope her MW is keeping a very good eye on her.....and best of luck with everything.xxxx
 
This sounds really odd!
Hope the vets want to see them back to get this checked out.
I'll be really interested to know how this pans out.
Its great you are on hand to be the bunny taxi service too.
Good luck with getting to the bottom of this problem.
 
Is it a sort of round lump or a hard ridge? I felt a hard ridge on the back of one of ours and I think it was scar tissue where one had bitten the other. The skin hadn't really broken, but had been 'pinched' up into a ridge which went hard. It went a week or so later.

This was around the time they were neutered and had been fighting. You couldn't see anything at first glance, you had to part the fur and look closely. Could they be rabbit bites that have turned to scars?
 
I've felt sharpish feeling bumps in joes fur recently and it's turned out to be little clumps of fur that have are working loose and it's the bits of skin :? that feel hard, whether it's from moulting or fighting i'm not sure, i've never ever seen them fight but Jess did go through a fad of humping him a few weeks ago so it was maybe that.

Good idea to check with the vets thought, hope your brothers buns are ok
 
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