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Prevention and treatment of common diseases in rabbits: heatstroke

Published: 2024-11-08 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/08, 1. The cause of the disease mostly occurs in the hot summer, and the hair rabbit is the most common. The sweat gland of the rabbit is underdeveloped, and the heat dissipation of the body surface is very slow. It is more difficult for the unfried short wool to dissipate heat with the rabbit. When the external temperature is above 33 ℃, the heat dissipation mainly depends on increasing the respiratory frequency to regulate the body temperature. According to the measurement, when the temperature is as high as 35 ℃, the average respiratory frequency of rabbits increases from more than 40 times per minute to more than 200 times per minute. In the high temperature period, if the rabbit house is poorly ventilated, overcrowded, or long-distance transportation, the rabbit body heat can not be distributed in time, it will cause heatstroke. Rabbits of all ages can.

1. The cause of the disease mostly occurs in the hot summer, and the hair rabbit is the most common. The sweat gland of the rabbit is underdeveloped, and the heat dissipation of the body surface is very slow. It is more difficult for the unfried short wool to dissipate heat with the rabbit. When the external temperature is above 33 ℃, the heat dissipation mainly depends on increasing the respiratory frequency to regulate the body temperature. According to the measurement, when the temperature is as high as 35 ℃, the average respiratory frequency of rabbits increases from more than 40 times per minute to more than 200 times per minute. In the high temperature period, if the rabbit house is poorly ventilated, overcrowded, or long-distance transportation, the rabbit body heat can not be distributed in time, it will cause heatstroke. Rabbits of all ages can get sick, but pregnant female rabbits suffer the most. When the nest box is covered with thick grass and poor ventilation, young rabbits are also particularly prone to attack.

2. Clinical symptoms female rabbits in the third trimester of pregnancy are the most vulnerable, and adult rabbits only get sick when the cage is very crowded. At the beginning of the disease, the rabbit has loss of appetite, slow response, limbs stretched back and forth, abdomen close to the bottom of the cage, breathing and heartbeat faster. With the development of the disease, it is characterized by loss of appetite, shortness of breath, conjunctival congestion, flushing, moist bright red around the nostrils, and bloody fluid from the mouth and nose. The diseased rabbits showed intermittent tremors or convulsions until death. Some ran wildly, some suddenly fell or lay on their side, resulting in generalized spasms, dull eyes, blood stasis in the veins, cyanosis in the mucosa, and then the rabbit screamed and died. Some are lying on their side, stretching their legs, swimming in their limbs, coma, shallow breathing, asphyxiation and cardiac paralysis.

 
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