Easy Ears
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:furious: These pinworm are driving me craaaazy!!!! :evil: If you recall, I had this problem the same time last year....always in the dead of winter. Anyway, I've been suspicious of my buck having them for a while and have been giving him Grapefruit seed extract and trying to give him pumpkin seeds. None of my rabbits seem to like the pumpkin seeds...any suggestions?
Anyway, went to check on the bunnies, and noticed around 4 worms in his droppings. I poked at each worm, cutting them in half, and not one moved. So I'm assuming they are dead... Yay? :? Either that or they're unresponsive because it's 31 degrees F outside. Sigh. I just don't know what to do! I'm almost positive they are getting the worms from our sprinkler irrigation water, because I let them roam around in the grass during the summer. They really need the exercise so I don't want them to just be cooped up all year round in their off the ground hutches! I also don't want to have to be worrying about these pinworms all the time either.
So from what I gather, pinworms don't do much harm to the rabbit, correct? It's not just my buck though. I have a double decker hutch , and my wormy buck is on the top deck, with my HL buck underneath (they have wood flooring, but holes in the corners that the poop goes out.) so I'm pretty positive the HL has them as well. My concern is, I was planning on breeding January 1st. So this will most definitely be a problem. Unless, I deworm every month. If I plan on still letting them on the grass during spring and summer it really doesn't matter does it? So should I just go ahead and breed, and just deworm everybunny once a month or more?
This is so maddening, especially since it throws my whole breeding schedule off. I was planning on breeding the buck with worms to Petlover500's doe as well....I suppose that won't happen now. :'(
Suggestions? Thoughts?
Anyway, went to check on the bunnies, and noticed around 4 worms in his droppings. I poked at each worm, cutting them in half, and not one moved. So I'm assuming they are dead... Yay? :? Either that or they're unresponsive because it's 31 degrees F outside. Sigh. I just don't know what to do! I'm almost positive they are getting the worms from our sprinkler irrigation water, because I let them roam around in the grass during the summer. They really need the exercise so I don't want them to just be cooped up all year round in their off the ground hutches! I also don't want to have to be worrying about these pinworms all the time either.
So from what I gather, pinworms don't do much harm to the rabbit, correct? It's not just my buck though. I have a double decker hutch , and my wormy buck is on the top deck, with my HL buck underneath (they have wood flooring, but holes in the corners that the poop goes out.) so I'm pretty positive the HL has them as well. My concern is, I was planning on breeding January 1st. So this will most definitely be a problem. Unless, I deworm every month. If I plan on still letting them on the grass during spring and summer it really doesn't matter does it? So should I just go ahead and breed, and just deworm everybunny once a month or more?
This is so maddening, especially since it throws my whole breeding schedule off. I was planning on breeding the buck with worms to Petlover500's doe as well....I suppose that won't happen now. :'(
Suggestions? Thoughts?