Odd liver in silver fox doe

Rabbit Tree Farm said:

This is a doe that is a little over a year old. We had about 4 breedings that resulted in one litter. Thru the cold spell last week she noticably lost condition, lost weight and fur condition. Still eating and drinking fine. She was supposed to be bred but it was another failed breeding. So i culled her this morning.

Has anyone seen a liver like this? Its much smaller than normal and the bile duct is grossly enlarged and no longer nestled in the lobe. The second pic is the lungs which seems pale to me. Her heart is also smaller than my nz hearts.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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ladysown said:

doesn't look like cocci.... I'm stumped. maybe try rabbits inside out facebook group?

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Rabbit Tree Farm said:

This is a doe that is a little over a year old. We had about 4 breedings that resulted in one litter. Thru the cold spell last week she noticably lost condition, lost weight and fur condition. Still eating and drinking fine. She was supposed to be bred but it was another failed breeding. So i culled her this morning.

Has anyone seen a liver like this? Its much smaller than normal and the bile duct is grossly enlarged and no longer nestled in the lobe. The second pic is the lungs which seems pale to me. Her heart is also smaller than my nz hearts.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Alaska Satin said:

That does look a bit like extensive hepatic coccidiosis to me. Usually I see liver before the infection has spread to the whole liver and at that point the liver is greatly distended. But I think as the infection progresses, the liver begins to atrophy as it loses the battle to defeat the Eimeria and detox the body.

Here is a photo quite similar to yours, with extensive nodules and a hugely enlarged bile duct, from a paper investigating use of Litchi chinensis (no common name that I know of) to treat hepatic coccidiosis in rabbits:
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https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/22/3098

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Alaska Satin said:

That does kind of look like extensive hepatic coccidiosis to me. Usually I see coccidiosis before the infection has spread to the whole liver and at that point the liver is greatly distended. But I think as the infection progresses, the liver begins to atrophy as it loses the battle to defeat the Eimeria and detox the body.

Here is a photo quite similar to yours, with extensive nodules and a hugely enlarged bile duct, in a rabbit with hepatic coccidiosis. The paper describes and investigation of the use of Litchi chinensis (no common name that I know of) to treat hepatic coccidiosis in rabbits:
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https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/22/3098

I think @ladysown's idea of looking at Rabbits Inside Out is an idea, if you use Facebook (I don't).

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Alaska Satin said:

The paper describes an investigation of the use of Litchi chinensis (no common name that I know of)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/22/3098

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