This is Joanna, Rainey's daughter.
We have a recently kindled rabbit with whitish gunk around her nose. She’s stopped eating. Trying to figure out: is there anything I can do to help her/her kits, or to see that my other rabbits don’t get whatever she has? My mother thought she might have pasteurella, but wasn't sure as she isn't sneezing and we haven't observed pasteurella before.
Background info: Jay is a first-time mother whose ten kits are 48 hours old. At their 24-hour check they all seemed to be well fed. At their check today they were thinner. Jay herself ate up the willow branches, bramble and grain I put out for her last night, but this morning she didn’t eat anything, even the fresh greens which the other rabbits are eating eagerly as soon as they hit the feeders. I initially thought Jay had gone off feed either in reaction to kidding or because of the weather, which turned markedly warmer yesterday and today. I made sure she had access to water (her bottle seemed to be fine, and I gave her a water pan too) and tried offering tempting foods—no luck. After lunch when she was still not eating I took her out of her cage for an inspection and found that she had whitish-gray gunk inside and below her nostrils. (She has similar-looking stuff clumped on the rear end of her vulva too, but I don’t know if that is normal post kindling discharge—we don’t usually flip our does over at this stage.) We took the cage with Jay and her kits in it and put it into another shed, hoping to minimize the risk of infection to the other rabbits—maybe too late. So far the others look OK, and I haven’t handled any of them since I handled her this morning (though I did handle a cage latch and also cut some greens which I intended for later rabbit feeding after doing that—will wash the former and discard the latter.) As I said above, I have not heard her sneezing, though sometimes when touched she makes a quiet high-pitched growling or sighing noise.
What should I do next? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. (Going on to search more about pasteurella now.)
We have a recently kindled rabbit with whitish gunk around her nose. She’s stopped eating. Trying to figure out: is there anything I can do to help her/her kits, or to see that my other rabbits don’t get whatever she has? My mother thought she might have pasteurella, but wasn't sure as she isn't sneezing and we haven't observed pasteurella before.
Background info: Jay is a first-time mother whose ten kits are 48 hours old. At their 24-hour check they all seemed to be well fed. At their check today they were thinner. Jay herself ate up the willow branches, bramble and grain I put out for her last night, but this morning she didn’t eat anything, even the fresh greens which the other rabbits are eating eagerly as soon as they hit the feeders. I initially thought Jay had gone off feed either in reaction to kidding or because of the weather, which turned markedly warmer yesterday and today. I made sure she had access to water (her bottle seemed to be fine, and I gave her a water pan too) and tried offering tempting foods—no luck. After lunch when she was still not eating I took her out of her cage for an inspection and found that she had whitish-gray gunk inside and below her nostrils. (She has similar-looking stuff clumped on the rear end of her vulva too, but I don’t know if that is normal post kindling discharge—we don’t usually flip our does over at this stage.) We took the cage with Jay and her kits in it and put it into another shed, hoping to minimize the risk of infection to the other rabbits—maybe too late. So far the others look OK, and I haven’t handled any of them since I handled her this morning (though I did handle a cage latch and also cut some greens which I intended for later rabbit feeding after doing that—will wash the former and discard the latter.) As I said above, I have not heard her sneezing, though sometimes when touched she makes a quiet high-pitched growling or sighing noise.
What should I do next? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. (Going on to search more about pasteurella now.)