Over a year ago I received help for dealing with/preventing stasis in my 3 year old bunny Spartacus. Following advice, his diet is now hay (standard horse hay supplemented with smaller amounts of timothy and oat hay), galens garden forage (leaf/flower mixes), a little dill or parsley, science select (15g per day) and (in summer) as much grass as he chooses to eat.
He has been stasis free for over a year but over the summer has occasionally dropped caecotrophs and loose output (i think caecotroph-based) and this week produced a single abnormally large ovoid pellet which i think was faeces (no strong smell). The day of the large ovoid pellet he had mini-stasis episode - stopped eating his food and withdrew. When this didn;t resolve I dosed him with ranitidine and he recovered within a few hours. Today he produced loose output (diarrhoea-like) but is fine in himself, has eaten breakfast and is currently munching grass.
With his limited diet (and no episodes of untoward output when he's indoors for winter) the only thing i can think of is the new hays (all fresh cuts this summer .. though i reduced the timothy and oat amount just in case) or grass. There is no rhyme nor reason to when he has digestive symptoms - one was after 5 days of no grass access. Does anyone have any ideas how i can 'stabilise' him again .. he had one episode where he had to be seriously cleaned up and he was rearguarded due to increased risk of flystrike, which is an added concern.
thanks
He has been stasis free for over a year but over the summer has occasionally dropped caecotrophs and loose output (i think caecotroph-based) and this week produced a single abnormally large ovoid pellet which i think was faeces (no strong smell). The day of the large ovoid pellet he had mini-stasis episode - stopped eating his food and withdrew. When this didn;t resolve I dosed him with ranitidine and he recovered within a few hours. Today he produced loose output (diarrhoea-like) but is fine in himself, has eaten breakfast and is currently munching grass.
With his limited diet (and no episodes of untoward output when he's indoors for winter) the only thing i can think of is the new hays (all fresh cuts this summer .. though i reduced the timothy and oat amount just in case) or grass. There is no rhyme nor reason to when he has digestive symptoms - one was after 5 days of no grass access. Does anyone have any ideas how i can 'stabilise' him again .. he had one episode where he had to be seriously cleaned up and he was rearguarded due to increased risk of flystrike, which is an added concern.
thanks