How to detect suspicious rabbits as early as possible

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 Rex rabbits mostly occurs at night, when feeding rabbits in the morning, cage-by-cage and litter-by-litter observation is the easiest to identify suspected rabbits, which can start with investigation, viewing, touching and testing.

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 the touch is cold, it means that you drink too much cold water or catch cold, and there is a running water sound in the abdominal cavity of auscultation. Put the rabbit on the Kang and warm the belly on the warm water bag. 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 is gradually stretched. Eyeball pollution, the performance of the rabbit house air pollution, too much ammonia, should be timely ventilation. Rabbit runny nose is a sign of cold and cold, and its nasal fluid changes from serous to viscous and finally thickens is a sign of aggravation.

two。 Look: mainly look at feces, normal rabbit dung is granular, delicate, with bright light on the surface, similar to oil-like, if the feces are hard or pile-up, indicating that they suffer from gastrointestinal diseases. Dry, hard and small feces are constipation and should be fed with succulent green grass; faeces are as thin as water, with blood, mixed with mucus, air bubbles, fishy smell, dysentery, enteritis and coccidiosis, should be isolated in time, symptomatic treatment. In addition, observing the mental state of the rabbit, the healthy rabbit behaves lively and has a strong appetite, especially eating more and faster at night, chewing forage with 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 without thinking about diet.

3. Touch: the healthy rabbit dodge when touched, not easy to touch, and the physique is strong, the back and waist muscles are plump, and the limbs bounce forcefully. And sick rabbits often do not dodge, or even move powerless, physique emaciated waist obviously exposed, spinal bones such as abacus beads can be counted. If you touch the female rabbit with your hand, the spine is honest and motionless, accompanied by back uplift and raised limbs, which indicates that the rabbit is in estrus and should be taken out for breeding in time.

4. Test: on the basis of checking, looking and touching, combined with the measurement of body temperature, finally confirm what the disease is, and then treat the disease. 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, while that of old rabbits is lower than that of young rabbits, and that 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.