Causes, prevention and treatment of diarrhea in long-haired rabbits

With the improvement of people's living standards and the improvement of rabbit hair textile technology, the demand for rabbit hair is increasing, and the breeding of long-haired rabbits has a broad development prospect. Then the prevention and treatment of diseases in long-haired rabbits is very important. Let's analyze how to prevent and cure diarrhea in long-haired rabbits.

The causes of diarrhea in long-haired rabbits:

Diarrhea in long-haired rabbits is a symptom that can be shown in many diseases, and the reason is very complicated. Pathogenic microorganism infection, ingestion of toxic and harmful substances, improper feeding and management, seasonal changes, long-distance transportation, excessive use of sulfonamides or antibiotics, leading to flora imbalance and many other factors can cause rabbit diarrhea.

Symptoms of diarrhea in long-haired rabbits: the common symptoms are depressed spirit, loss of appetite, lying in one place, soft, porridge-like or watery stool, hyperbowel sound, abdominal pain, or flatulence. Diarrhea caused by indigestion can be seen that there are undigested feed particles in feces; clinical identification: diarrhea caused by Escherichia coli can appear alternately constipation and diarrhea, and transparent gelatinous substance is attached to the surface of feces; Clostridium welchii diarrhea is acute, feces have a foul smell, and there is a large amount of fecal pollution in the hind legs, anus and tail.

Prevention and treatment of diarrhea in long-haired rabbits:

In the production practice, we concluded that in order to control diarrhoeal disease, we must grasp several critical control points.

1. During pregnancy and lactation, it is especially necessary to strengthen scientific feeding and management to reduce the occurrence of diseases, so as to make the fetus develop normally in the body and the suckling rabbits are physically strong.

2. Cleaning treatment of postpartum breasts of female rabbits: after giving birth, female rabbits wash their breasts with 0.1% potassium permanganate solution and squeeze out the first few drops of milk, which can reduce the incidence of xanthuria.

3. Don't be weaned prematurely. For weaned rabbits, immediate use (such as dysentery, probiotics, lactase, etc.) for 5-7 days can better prevent diarrhea.

4. Do a good job of scientific feeding and management of young rabbits.

5. Regular epidemic prevention and elimination of parasites.

6. timely treatment: medication should be used on the basis of a general grasp of the etiology and understanding of the types of diseases. Due to diarrhea caused by intestinal bacterial infection, dyspepsia and excessive use of antibiotics, the effect of timely and adequate use of microecological agents is obvious. Severe diarrhea cases, you can first use antibiotics (such as gentamicin, neomycin, dysentery king, etc.) for 2-3 days, and add vitamin B1, and then stop using antibiotics and switch to live bacterial preparations. Those with severe dehydration should be rehydrated (intravenous or oral rehydration salts). Can cooperate with the use of traditional Chinese medicine prescription conditioning.