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Apologizing in advance for the lengthy post and cross posting in other groups! We are stumped and at our wits end with recent sudden deaths in our rabbitry due to GI stasis. Since early October we have had several of our rabbits stop eating and die 1-3 days later. No other symptoms - no diarrhea...

Thank you so much for this wonderful thread! So helpful!

Thank you again everyone!! DogCatMom: My husband, myself and brother in law are the only ones who care for the rabbits. We do not have a colsed rabbitry but have not had any visitors in months - or even longer maybe. However, maybe we tracked something in? Although we have not visited any other...

We feed Hinhart feed. It's supposed to be a good feed... it's fed by many commercial mest producers in our area. It has very little fines and has been very consistent. We also offer grassy hay free choice. We monitor feed very carefully so know right when they are off feed. We give pellets...

Thanks so much to everyone! It seems like the young doe syndrome stems from a secondary infection of some sort or dirty housing?? Our rabbitry is very clean. Cages are all wire. Feeders are gravity feeders and we measure feed daily. It never gets wet, old or moldy. Water has ACV and is in either...

Thank you for responding!! We have not seen any GI symptoms or diarrhea until the day after kindling. By day 2 after kindling they have died. The diarrhea is not foul smelling at all. We just bought solumet thinking we should just treat prophylaxis in case. The rabbits that died with GI symptoms...

We are having trouble with our rabbitry! We have had 2 does die recently After giving birth to dead kits or eating their kits. In both cases they stopped eating and died within 2-3 days of kindling. They both also developed diarrhea but it was not super foul smelling. I have never had so much...

I'm leaning towards two separate issues?? The first doe just up and died. She is still in the freezer awaiting necropsy. The second one maybe GI stasis? So far no other symptoms. I just got back from checking everyone again. This has me in a panic. Very sad since this is my favorite line!! Thank...

We did find this on a sticky here. I don't think this is what we have. The pictures don't look at all like mine. I can't get them to load though... the first rabbit was found dead on the 2nd. We culled this one today. No other rabbits have any symptoms. We house over 100 in our rabbitry.<br...

I'm so upset! I've never in all my years of raising rabbits had illness in my herd. 5 days ago I found a Silver Fox doe aged 7mos dead in her cage. No prior symptoms. She seemed fine just hours before. She was very healthy. When we carried her body to the house some blood dripped from her nose...

Up until the last few weeks we were definitly making money. We figured if we sold one rabbit per litter we were covering feed expenses. Cages had already been paid for by profits. I usually ended up selling more than I should have = not enough for the freezers. I had all my own breeding stock...

I have been raising rabbits as long as I can remember. In the last couple of years our family has moved from pet to meat raising. Up until recently we have been suppliers for ourselves and a few close friends. We have always been able to sell enough of our stock to offset feed costs. Just...