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Feeding young netherland dwarf
- Thread starter Petrus82
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Any baby bunny should be fed as he was at his previous home. Hay should be fine anyway. Any dry food (pellets) should be the same brand and quantity he was brought up on. You can gradually change brands later, if you want to. Fresh food - you really need to know what he has had before in terms of which veg and how much - otherwise let him settle in for a couple of weeks and gradually introduce new veg or forage into his diet over several weeks. Any sudden change to his diet may cause digestive upsets - and these can have serious consequences, especially in young rabbits with immature digestive systems. Any abnormal poo or stopping eating needs urgent vet attention.
Do you have a rabbit savvy vet? He can be vaccinated now (there are 2 different vaccinations given a couple of weeks apart) and you can ask about neutering at the same time.
Do you have a rabbit savvy vet? He can be vaccinated now (there are 2 different vaccinations given a couple of weeks apart) and you can ask about neutering at the same time.
MightyMax
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It used to be just one combined vaccine called the Novibac/Myxo. Now there is another strain of VHD, called VHD2 or RHD2.
More info on that here:
http://forums.rabbitrehome.org.uk/showthread.php?456446-RHD2-Updated-10th-June-2017
A bit of a long read - start at the end
Basically it's Filavac and is to be given once yearly. This new strain of VHD doesn't kill rabbits quite so quickly, and that gives time for the virus to spread further, unfortunately
