Three methods to identify diseased rabbits

A look: the sick rabbit is mentally depressed, the body is thin, the bones are exposed, the coat is dishevelled, lack of luster, and does not change hair according to the hair changing season. Healthy rabbits have strong appetite and fast feeding speed, while diseased rabbits have poor appetite and slow feeding speed or refuse to eat. The feces of healthy rabbits are granular, oval, uniform in size and smooth in surface. If dry, hard and small faeces appear, it means constipation, and more turquoise succulent feed should be fed; if feces are found to be tadpole-shaped or soft, this is a sign of indigestion, charcoal powder and yeast tablets should be added to the feed; if feces are stacked and rotten as mud, sometimes mixed with blood, air bubbles and fishy smell, most of them suffer from acute enteritis, dysentery or infectious diseases, should be isolated and treated.

The second touch: the skin of healthy rabbits is strong, dense and elastic, ruddy and smooth and clean, the normal skin temperature is 33.5 ℃, and the abdomen is soft and elastic. If the rabbit appears restlessness, abdominal tension and tremor when touching the abdomen, it is more common in peritonitis, while when the abdominal cavity is effusion, the touch has a fluctuating feeling.

Three tests: mainly to measure the body temperature, pulse and breathing times. The normal body temperature of rabbits is 38.5 ℃, and the body temperature of young rabbits is higher than that of adult rabbits, and that of adult rabbits is higher than that of old rabbits. If the body temperature rises to 41 ℃, it is a sign of acute, severe infectious disease. The number of pulses per minute of healthy rabbits was 120 and 150 times. The increase in the number of pulse is a manifestation of febrile venereal diseases and infectious diseases. The number of breaths of healthy rabbits was 50 per minute and 80 per minute. The respiratory frequency of diseased rabbits increased or decreased.