Prevention and treatment of ear itching in rabbits

Symptoms of ear itching

Sick rabbits are mainly manifested in unbearable itching in their ears, often scratching and shaking their heads with their forelimbs, and showing symptoms such as lethargy, restlessness, less anorexia, weight loss and so on. The physical signs are redness and swelling of the ear skin, dandruff and hair loss, gradual increase in the scope, inflammation of the external auditory canal, running water, scab, and thickening of the skin. As a result of rabbit itching will continue to scratch, so often cause skin infection to aggravate the injury, bleeding, causing fever, convulsions, epilepsy, and eventually death.

Prevention and cure measures

1. Control infection: as ear itching is highly contagious, once one rabbit gets sick, the whole litter of rabbits is likely to be infected. Therefore, once infected individuals are found, they should be quarantined and raised immediately to prevent cross-infection.

2. Treatment of diseased rabbits: first, cotton was dipped in 2% trichlorfon to directly smear the affected area and its surroundings once a day for 3 consecutive days; secondly, ivermectin was injected into the neck muscle once a week according to the body weight of 0.2 mg / kg for 3 times.

3, do a good job of disinfection: ear itching is a disease caused by pathogens, therefore, in order to completely eliminate environmental pathogens, cut off the route of transmission, and prevent continuous spread. Spray 1% trichlorfon once a week for 3 weeks; thoroughly disinfect the disease-free rabbit twice, and thoroughly clean up rabbit excreta, rabbit hair, surplus feed, etc.

4. Enhance resistance: ear itching often occurs in individuals with weak physique and low resistance. therefore, in the usual feeding of farmers, we should pay attention to increase the intake of vitamins to rabbits, and feed them with green feed and full-price fodder. to improve rabbit immunity.