As some of you may know - my DD's buck "Smudge" died a couple of weeks ago - unexpectedly, wasn't old, no illness, no obvious signs of cause of death.
He was followed, earlier this week, by a little doe that DD had given me name Chocolate. Same thing - except she had been a little thin, but she was feeding a litter so I wasn't overly worried - just got there and found her dead. Luckily the babies were old enough to cope without her.
Then this morning, we found Douglas dead. He was the very very tame little buck that DD had decided to keep to try to take Smudge's place. The only difference with him was that he had been partially eaten by a rat when we found him this morning.
As a result, I have no way of knowing whether he died in the same way as the other two and the rat attack came afterwards, or whether he was attacked by rats and that is what killed him.
But, what on earth is going on. To lose 2, possibly 3, bunnies with no obviouis cause, signs of illness? What am I missing? I am staring to worry now
TIA
hoggie
He was followed, earlier this week, by a little doe that DD had given me name Chocolate. Same thing - except she had been a little thin, but she was feeding a litter so I wasn't overly worried - just got there and found her dead. Luckily the babies were old enough to cope without her.
Then this morning, we found Douglas dead. He was the very very tame little buck that DD had decided to keep to try to take Smudge's place. The only difference with him was that he had been partially eaten by a rat when we found him this morning.
As a result, I have no way of knowing whether he died in the same way as the other two and the rat attack came afterwards, or whether he was attacked by rats and that is what killed him.
But, what on earth is going on. To lose 2, possibly 3, bunnies with no obviouis cause, signs of illness? What am I missing? I am staring to worry now
TIA
hoggie