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I need some advice, I lost one kit today and the others are very skinny, wrinkly, etc. The mom is not eating and she wouldnt let me hold her for the kits to nurse.
I bought the mom March 2nd at a show, she was being fed manna pro but I didn't have any so I just gave her the ware milling feed that we use, she picked at it here and there and ate hay mostly, drank a little. Since I have had her she has not once emptied her water bottle or her feeder. I flew to TSC earlier and got some timothy hay (she stopped eating the costal bermuda hay that we had!) and some manna pro. So now I have her manna pro, ware milling, and two types of hay in her cage and her full water bottle.
That was about 2 hours ago, she still isn't eating and the kits are starving to death. A breeder friend said it sounds like mastitis, I soaked her belly with warm water but I don't know what else to do. I don't have another nursing doe to put them with. I don't want to let them starve to death.
Should I cull them? Should I cull HER? Can this be treated? Will it come back? Can it infect other rabbits in my barn?
I am attaching some photos
I need some advice, I lost one kit today and the others are very skinny, wrinkly, etc. The mom is not eating and she wouldnt let me hold her for the kits to nurse.
I bought the mom March 2nd at a show, she was being fed manna pro but I didn't have any so I just gave her the ware milling feed that we use, she picked at it here and there and ate hay mostly, drank a little. Since I have had her she has not once emptied her water bottle or her feeder. I flew to TSC earlier and got some timothy hay (she stopped eating the costal bermuda hay that we had!) and some manna pro. So now I have her manna pro, ware milling, and two types of hay in her cage and her full water bottle.
That was about 2 hours ago, she still isn't eating and the kits are starving to death. A breeder friend said it sounds like mastitis, I soaked her belly with warm water but I don't know what else to do. I don't have another nursing doe to put them with. I don't want to let them starve to death.
Should I cull them? Should I cull HER? Can this be treated? Will it come back? Can it infect other rabbits in my barn?
I am attaching some photos