What is the cause of xanthuria in baby rabbits? How to prevent and cure?

When raising rabbits, it is very easy to have xanthuria. Xanthuria is a common name for acute enteritis of young rabbits, which refers to the yellow stool of sick rabbits, not the yellow urine of rabbits. In fact, it is more appropriate to call the yellow urine disease of young rabbits. I don't know why it was called yellow urine disease in the first place. What is the cause of xanthuria in baby rabbits? How to prevent and cure?

I. the causes of xanthuria in young rabbits.

1. Seasonal factors

It has been proved by a large number of facts that the summer high temperature and humidity season is the high incidence period of xanthuria in young rabbits, and some rabbit farms can even be described as outbreaks, resulting in the death of a large number of young rabbits. According to the observation of our rabbit farm, without any drug prevention, when the rabbit house temperature is 25 degrees, the young rabbits are not found to have xanthuria, but when the temperature reaches 27 degrees, it is found that there is xanthuria. It can be seen that the high temperature of rabbit house in summer is an important factor for the occurrence of xanthuria in young rabbits. in other seasons with low temperature, the incidence of xanthuria is much lower.

2. Milk factors of female rabbits.

The xanthuria of young rabbits has a lot to do with the milk of female rabbits with mastitis. However, not all young rabbits fed by female rabbits with mastitis will develop xanthuria. Moreover, many female rabbits do not get mastitis, and young rabbits also get xanthuria. Many people think that this is because the female rabbit has recessive mastitis, and the baby rabbit has yellow urine disease. The female rabbit recessive mastitis said that it needs to be further studied by researchers to prove that we only raise rabbits. All we know is that many female rabbits have mastitis, but the baby rabbits do not. Thus it can be seen that when female rabbits develop mastitis, young rabbits do not necessarily have xanthuria, while female rabbits do not have mastitis, and young rabbits also have xanthuria in many cases. In a word, mastitis in female rabbits is not the only pathogenic factor of xanthuria in young rabbits.

Second, how to prevent and cure the xanthuria of young rabbits?

1. Injection of rabbit staphylococcal vaccine

Female rabbits should be injected with rabbit staphylococcal vaccine before mating, so that the newborn rabbits are born with higher maternal antibodies, so that they have resistance to the disease.

2. Take sulfonamides

Female rabbits were given sulfonamides (0.5 g / day) for 3 days after delivery to prevent mastitis. Local blocking therapy could be taken for female rabbits with mastitis: procaine penicillin was injected at 3-5 points around the affected area, supplemented with hot compress, and the effect was better.

3. Adjust the feed formula of female rabbit.

To adjust the feed formula of lactating female rabbits, the newborn female rabbits should be fed with more green and succulent feed to avoid mastitis caused by too thick milk and enteritis caused by indigestion caused by sucking thick milk.

4. Oral chloramphenicol eye drops

Young rabbits take chloramphenicol eye drops 2-3 drops before lactation to prevent xanthuria. For rabbits with xanthuria, gentamicin or chloramphenicol injection can be taken twice a day, 2-3 drops each time for 3 days.