How to detect diseased rabbits early

The Rex rabbit is delicate and sensitive to external conditions. it has the characteristics of urgent onset, quick death and quick recovery after timely treatment. As the disease of rabbits is mostly at night, therefore, feeding rabbits in the morning is cage-by-cage and litter-by-litter observation, and it is easiest to identify suspected rabbits, which can be examined, seen, touched and measured.

1. Check. Healthy rabbits have pink ears and bright eyes. If the ear color is red or lavender, it can be relieved when it is heated and put into a ventilated cage with little exercise; if the ear color is white and feels 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. Just put it on a hot Kang to warm your stomach. The ear tip of the young rabbit bends forward or has a slight droop, indicating that the body temperature is high and let the rabbit move freely for a while to promote cooling. Two ears close to each other is a sign of lack of water and thirst, drinking water with salt will gradually stretch. Eyeball pollution indicates that the air in the rabbit house is dirty and there is too much ammonia, so it should be ventilated in time. Rabbit runny nose is the harbinger of a cold, and its nasal juice changes from serous to sticky and finally purulent, which is a sign of aggravation of the disease.

two。 Look. Mainly look at the feces, normal rabbit dung is granular, delicate, the surface is bright, similar to oil-like, if the feces are sparse or pile-up, indicating that rabbits suffer from gastrointestinal diseases. Dry, hard and small feces are constipation and should be fed with succulent green grass; feces are stacked, thin, watery, bloody and mixed with mucus. Air bubbles, accompanied by fishy smell, for dysentery, enteritis or coccidiosis, should be timely isolation and symptomatic treatment. In addition, observing the mental state of the rabbit, the healthy rabbit has a lively manner and a strong appetite, especially eating more and faster at night, chewing forage 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.

3. Touch it. The dodge of the healthy rabbit touch is 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.

4. Test. On the basis of checking, watching and touching, the normal body temperature of healthy rabbits was 38.5-39.5 ℃. Generally, the body temperature of young rabbits was higher than that of adult rabbits, and that of old rabbits was lower than that of young and adult rabbits. At the same time, the body temperature of diseased rabbits was either higher or lower in summer than in winter and in the afternoon than in the morning.