Prevention and control of pinworm in Rex rabbits

The hair of the sick Rex rabbit is messy and dull, tears, obvious symptoms of conjunctivitis, emaciation, growth retardation, and diarrhea symptoms. It often gnaws the anus with its mouth. White needle nematode about 6 mm can be found in the feces. It is diagnosed as pinworm.

Clean the rabbit cage and rabbit house, accumulate and ferment the feces discharged by the sick rabbit, disinfect the cage house, food trough and drinking trough thoroughly, and mix the feed with 2% avermectin powder according to the amount of 0.25 g per kilogram of resting weight of the rabbit. After 10 days, repeat the drug once, and the effect is remarkable. Anti-worm tablets can also be used according to the rabbit weight of 15 mg per kilogram of the amount of ground mixed feed feeding, 10 days after repeated medication 1 time. At the same time, in combination with the slight diarrhea symptoms of the sick rabbits, compound Dijunjing was used according to the dosage of 1 tablet per kilogram of rabbit weight, and yeast tablets were used for grinding and mixing materials for feeding each rabbit twice a day until the diarrhea symptoms of the sick rabbits disappeared.

In order to recover the sick rabbits quickly, after the diarrhea symptoms disappeared, the rabbits were fed with pure Chinese medicine powder feed Jianqu, which can stimulate appetite and help digestion. Each rabbit was fed 1.5g each time, 3 times a day for 3 days. The effect was obvious.