What if the rabbit has diarrhea? Attention should be paid to the two major causes! Attached treatment method

When breeding rabbits, it is possible to encounter diarrhea, which is also the most common disease of rabbits. Once this situation occurs, it must be treated in time, otherwise it will lead to rabbit death. What about rabbit diarrhea?

1. Causes and symptoms of diarrhea in rabbits

There are many reasons for rabbit diarrhea, treatment must distinguish the causes symptomatic treatment, causing rabbit diarrhea mainly have the following reasons:

(i) Caused by germs

Rabbit diarrhea is mainly caused by several bacterial diseases such as Escherichia coli, Clostridium welchii disease, Taizellosis, Salmonella disease, rabbit rotavirus disease, Pseudomonas aeruginosa disease, rabbit mycotoxin poisoning, yellow urine disease of young rabbits, rabbit coccidiosis, etc.

Colibacillosis symptoms: rabbit abdominal swelling, diarrhea, do not eat, fever, cold ears, depressed spirit, emaciation, molars, salivation, limbs cold, early disease stool is not formed; middle and late symptoms for pulling rat feces, two sharp, in a string, surrounded by transparent jelly mucus fecal balls, gradually turned into yellow stool, slightly smelly, near the anus on the fur adhesion mucus or yellow-brown watery stool.

Symptoms of Clostridium welchii disease: frequent in winter and spring, depressed spirit in early stage of the disease, no food, increased drinking water, odor emission, thin feces such as water, black (brown) water emission, jelly with bloody feces, special fishy odor, low temperature; rapid abdominal expansion, gently shake rabbit body can hear water sound, lift the affected rabbit, feces water flows out from the anus.

Taizeria symptoms: mainly occurs in 20 days to 3 months of age of young rabbits, late autumn and early spring multiple, usually more acute onset, and to severe watery diarrhea, brown watery stool, dehydration, rapid weight loss as the main characteristics.

Symptoms of salmonellosis: watery faeces, foamy mucus faeces, foul odor, pale white or pale yellow.

Symptoms of rabbit coccidiosis: dry hard feces first, then watery, or dry hard and watery alternating, sometimes with blood.

(ii) Improper care or feeding

1, caused by excessive consumption of concentrate

As a herbivorous animal, the protein and corn content in rabbit diet should not be too high, especially those containing more starch, such as corn, are not fully digested and absorbed in the small intestine, which is bound to increase the burden on the hindgut and cause diarrhea due to digestive disorder.

Symptoms: wet, large amount of feces, heaps or strips, with sour smell, appear at night, return to normal during the day, or appear in a fixed period of time, after which continue to discharge normal feces.

2. Caused by sudden change of feed

Common in early spring and early summer grass germination growth season, often dry roughage-based, suddenly fed green feed, rabbits due to gluttony caused by abdominal distension diarrhea, some rabbits are more likely to cause diarrhea reloading should be gradual, preferably in 7~10 days to complete.

Symptom: Fecal grain becomes soft enlarge, mutual adhesion, show black or grass green.

3. Caused by feed poisoning

Generally, there are three common situations: ① forage feed itself contains toxic substances, such as some poisonous grass, cottonseed cake, raw soybean, budding potato, etc.;② feeding rabbits contaminated with pesticides or drugs causes poisoning;③ forage feed produces certain toxins during processing and storage.

Symptoms: Rabbits have persistent and increasingly watery stools, or most watery stools contain a small amount of paste.

4. Temperature change

Sudden weather changes, cold and other stress reactions (shock, hot and cold, long-distance transportation, etc.) will cause the rabbit diarrhea.

Symptoms: Rabbit feces are not formed, there is mucus or jelly like material, or there is mucus on the surface of the dung ball.

5, caused by indiscriminate use of antibiotics

Long-term continuous use of antibiotics, easy to cause intestinal flora imbalance, resulting in digestive disorders, to control each medication time, leaving a certain gap period.

6, caused by indigestion

More in the weaning before and after the baby rabbit, eating too much lead to gastrointestinal unbearable, appear indigestion and food accumulation problems.

Symptoms: decreased appetite, listlessness, normal or slightly low body temperature, irregular stool size, irregular shape, small tail or strip shape.

2. What about rabbit diarrhea?

1. Treatment methods caused by improper care or feeding

Keep the rabbit house ventilated and dry, and keep the rabbit warm. It is recommended to put the rabbit on an electric blanket to ease the disease. Diarrhea caused by dyspepsia should be stopped for 12-24 hours. The food should not be stopped. The grass and drinking water should be supplied as usual. Feed milk enzyme once in the morning and evening, 4 tablets each time, for 2-3 days until the feces are normal.

2. Treatment methods caused by germs

Diarrhea caused by bacterial disease can be fed once in the morning and evening montmorillonite powder, half a packet each time, feed two thirds of norfloxacin capsules after an interval of 3 hours, feed for 3 days; feed a piece of vitamin C to rabbits every day, feed for 3 days; oral rehydration salts or glucose solution, feed 5 ml per hour, no less than 40 ml per day; at the same time, feed milk enzyme raw tablets once in the morning and evening, feed 2-3 tablets each time, feed 1-2 weeks, help rabbits regulate intestinal flora.

In fact, most of the main causes of rabbit diarrhea are feeding the wrong food, or feeding problems, so feeding the right and clean food is the most effective way to avoid rabbit diarrhea.

The above is about the rabbit diarrhea related introduction, rabbit diarrhea complex causes, more difficult to treat, so for farmers is a problem, must symptomatic treatment, they will not be sure to ask veterinary treatment in time.