shazza
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i figured it might be easier to make a new thread in case my question got buried etc.
a few posts down i wrote about how what i thought was e. cuniculi wiped out 16 of my growouts last week. i immediately began treating them with fenbendazole and continued treatment for the recommended 6 days as a preventative measure.
now, whatever took out my little ones never affected the older rabbits that lived in the same pen with the younger ones. i just took weights yesterday and several of them are big enough to butcher, and i would like to get that done pretty soon. does anyone know the amount of time after treating with fenbendazole before the rabbit can be eaten? the bottle i am using is for goats and says 6 weeks but rabbits are smaller/metabolize faster and their dosage is much much smaller so i'm assuming it won't be that long. i hope not. as fascinating as it would be to have a jar full of rabbit fetuses from them breeding each other i would rather not have to deal with that.
also, i'm having a hard time finding information about WHY one should wait before butchering. from what i understand it's mostly just the meat may be tainted with the medication. but in know fenbendazole is safe for humans too...is it really BAD to eat them? obviously i wouldn't sell them just to cover my ass, but if we just eat them, what would really happen?
a few posts down i wrote about how what i thought was e. cuniculi wiped out 16 of my growouts last week. i immediately began treating them with fenbendazole and continued treatment for the recommended 6 days as a preventative measure.
now, whatever took out my little ones never affected the older rabbits that lived in the same pen with the younger ones. i just took weights yesterday and several of them are big enough to butcher, and i would like to get that done pretty soon. does anyone know the amount of time after treating with fenbendazole before the rabbit can be eaten? the bottle i am using is for goats and says 6 weeks but rabbits are smaller/metabolize faster and their dosage is much much smaller so i'm assuming it won't be that long. i hope not. as fascinating as it would be to have a jar full of rabbit fetuses from them breeding each other i would rather not have to deal with that.
also, i'm having a hard time finding information about WHY one should wait before butchering. from what i understand it's mostly just the meat may be tainted with the medication. but in know fenbendazole is safe for humans too...is it really BAD to eat them? obviously i wouldn't sell them just to cover my ass, but if we just eat them, what would really happen?