Help! Rabbit diarrhea!!!!

Help!!

For any rabbit with diarrhea, I recommend the following steps:
1. Separate it from any other rabbits.
2. Remove pelleted food and give kitchen oatmeal (old-fashioned/large flake) and grass hay.
3. Make sure it has fresh water. An electrolyte solution may also help to prevent dehydration.
4. If you can find any of the following plants, they help combat diarrhea in rabbits: leaves of blackberry, raspberry or strawberry, the lawn weeds plantain or shepherd's purse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantago_major
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsella_bursa-pastoris

That said, what you are describing - soft, sticky stools that smell bad and the rabbit eating them - may be normal cecal pellets. They are a special kind of poop and it is normal for the rabbit to eat them. Normally you won't see this happening, but now and again a rabbit makes too many of them (especially on a rich diet) and they will make a mess. I'm not saying this is what is happening, but it could be. Here is a link to an article about this.
http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/poop.html

In either case, the recommendations I made will not harm the rabbit and may well help. Good luck. :clover:

Thank you so much MaggieJ!!

I will follow your steps, but one problem. His buddie he is with, the cannot be seperated. They freak out if seperate

Now that you say it it does sound like Cecel poops. They are kind runny but not enough to slip through the wire. He stinks really bad. He acts normal and is hopping around right now because Im watching him.

If you can't separate them, you'll just have to forget that step. It was mainly in case it is something contagious but also so you can tell what poop each rabbit is producing. I hope it is just the cecal poops -- they are messy and stinky but not a health problem.

You seem to be having quite a few medical issues with your rabbits - it might be time to have one or two visit the Veterinarian or at least bring in a few fecal samples to pin point what exactly is going on in their intestines

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Could it be the food that they are eating? We are planning to get better show brand food tomorrow to mix with the feed they have

It's possible... but if that's a real possibility, you should probably just stop feeding that food to all of them, and put them all on oatmeal for a few days. Then (if they are improved) you can start mixing the new food in with the oats, until you've switched them over.

Make sure your hay is still good. It should not smell musty, and it should not generate a cloud of dust when shaken. A little dust is fine.

But Dood's right... you were talking about skinny bunny, possible worms, diarrhea... did you ever treat for worms? Did that one rabbit ever recover?

Miss M":168co7bj said:

It's possible... but if that's a real possibility, you should probably just stop feeding that food to all of them, and put them all on oatmeal for a few days. Then (if they are improved) you can start mixing the new food in with the oats, until you've switched them over.

Make sure your hay is still good. It should not smell musty, and it should not generate a cloud of dust when shaken. A little dust is fine.

But Dood's right... you were talking about skinny bunny, possible worms, diarrhea... did you ever treat for worms? Did that one rabbit ever recover?

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Everyone survived and it was all false alarms or needed new food. <br /><br /> -- Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:52 pm -- <br /><br />

Miss M":168co7bj said:

It's possible... but if that's a real possibility, you should probably just stop feeding that food to all of them, and put them all on oatmeal for a few days. Then (if they are improved) you can start mixing the new food in with the oats, until you've switched them over.

Make sure your hay is still good. It should not smell musty, and it should not generate a cloud of dust when shaken. A little dust is fine.

But Dood's right... you were talking about skinny bunny, possible worms, diarrhea... did you ever treat for worms? Did that one rabbit ever recover?

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Everyone survived and it was all false alarms or needed new food.