How to detect suspected diseased rabbits early

Check healthy rabbits with pink ears and bright eyes. If the ear color is red or lavender, it means that it is heated, put it into a ventilated cage and have a short rest; if the ear color is white and touch it cold, it means that you drink too much cold water or catch cold, and listen to the sound of running water in the abdominal cavity. Put the sick rabbit on the hot Kang to warm the belly. The ear tip of the baby rabbit bends forward or has a slight droop, indicating that the body temperature is high and the rabbit can move freely for a while to promote cooling. If the rabbit eyeball is stained, which indicates that the air in the rabbit house is dirty, it should be ventilated in time. Rabbit runny nose is the precursor of a cold, and its nasal fluid changes from serous to viscous and finally purulent, which is a sign of aggravation of the disease.

Look mainly at feces, normal rabbit dung is granular, the surface is delicate, shiny, similar to oily skin. If the feces are in the shape of a pile, it indicates that the rabbit has gastrointestinal disease. Dry, hard and small feces are symptoms of constipation and should be fed with succulent green grass; feces are stacked, thin and watery, with blood, mixed with mucus, air bubbles, and fishy smell, which are symptoms of dysentery, enteritis or coccidiosis, and should be isolated in time. Symptomatic treatment. In addition, observing the mental state of the rabbit, the healthy rabbit behaved lively and active, had a strong appetite, especially ate more and faster at night, and chewed grass with a crisp sound. On the contrary, the sick rabbit is depressed, half-open and half-closed, often crouching in a corner of the cage, loss of appetite, do not think about diet.

Touch the dodge of the healthy rabbit, not easy to touch, and the physique is strong, the back and waist muscles are plump and the limbs bounce forcefully. But the sick rabbit often does not dodge, even moves powerless, the physique is thin, the waist angle is obviously exposed, the spine bone is like a bead. If you touch the female rabbit with your hand, the dorsal vertebrae of the female rabbit are honest and motionless, accompanied by protuberance of the back and raising of the hind limbs, which indicates that the rabbit is in estrus and should be mated immediately.

On the basis of checking, seeing and touching, the normal body temperature of healthy rabbits is 38.5 ℃ ~ 39.5 ℃. Generally, the body temperature of young rabbits is higher than that of adult rabbits, and that of old rabbits is lower than that of young rabbits. At the same time, the body temperature of summer is slightly higher than that of winter, and that of afternoon is slightly higher than that of morning. On the other hand, the body temperature of diseased rabbits either increased or decreased.