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update-on-necropsy-cocci-problems-t11996.html Here is a link to previous converstations about my horrid problems with coccidia, including at home necropsy pics and my ACTUAL necropsy report. I *know* it's cocci. It causes dysbiosis and allows Clostridium and E. coli to grow, which causes my...

Any links to info on it? The problem is handling the semen and collection. Generally semen is collected in artificial vaginas, evaluated for quality and divvied up into straws and frozen, to be stored in nitrogen nearly indefinetely (if handled properly). I did AI this year on my goats with...

Update of this thread: at-home-necropsy-pics-long-please-help-t11768.html ----------------------------- Lets see if this works. If it does, this is my *final* (I think) report for my necropsy I had on a dead bunny. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3EO-yAlm0ksdDNtTE1DRGxTTVE Turns out my...

The aluminium flashing took a couple years for the rat urine to corrode it... but corrode it did. :( But I did have a lot of rats - not too many for the cage but they vastly preferred the TOP shelf of the cage, and it showed, lol. They would make the cutest pile of rats in their favorite top...

Update: Talked to pathologist today. He's pretty sure cocci is the source of my problems, and the E. coli and Clostridium are commensals that take over in MOST rabbit enteritis deaths/illnesses. But, he had no answers as to why that man who purchased rabbits from me had the same issue...

Oops, I'll clarify. The growout pen under the porch is a wood frame, 10'x2.5' cage with no dividers in it, that I raise kits out in, from weaning at 6 weeks till butcher about 10 weeks old, or until sold or retained in it's own cage here. Built exactly the same as my doe cages, except the doe...

Powder form probiotics (I have seen those in Jeffers catalog) won't stick to pellets though and will go right out of the mesh bottom feeders, can you dose it in water? Parasitology came back with 'many' cocci oocysts. Now I'm wondering about my original diagnosis of Cocci problems, but with E...

The 16% pellet is the most expensive one where I get feed,probably because they order it in the least bulk and thus can't give as good of a price as the 15% and the 18%. I'm not switching to a 16% if I don't have to. I might be able to mix up a 16% by mixing the 15% and the 18% together, but if...

Plates were set up for Bactiriology yesterday - looks like a coliform (E. coli probably) as well as possibly some clostridium on the aerobic plate... we also did an anaerobic culture which should show any clostridium better than the aerobic plate. Also sent feces to parasitology, haven't heard...

I was under the impression that ERE had different lesions, and only had diarrhea intermittently... These guys one of the FIRST signs that all deaths have is diarrhea. Have not tried lower protein - these are meat buns, I'd prefer to grow them out on 18%. As for a probiotic - no I have not done...

That's what I'm thinking, too. I work at DCPAH, which is MSU's diagnostic center. Necropsy is 120.00 for livestock (lets hope I can convince them that these rabbits are NOT companions because those are 170.00), but that includes all parasitology, virology, bacteriology, histology the pathologist...

Keeping the survivors is my only option - though if they're affected and live through it, they're stunty. I don't want stunty breeding stock. Nor do I want to sell it. And I worry about carriers to the exposed ones that seem to be doing well - Am I still unknowingly making my problem worse by...

Yup, I own the merck vet manual. My problems with mucoid enteritis diagnosis is that whatever this is, seems to be contagious - no antibiotics given to cause it, fiber in the diet should be adequate (16% to 19.2% crude fiber, plus MOST cages get hay) It spreads, fast. I was under the...

My symptoms/problems: A fellow rabbit raiser used to live on my property, and she bought/sold animals regularly, whearas I tend to just breed my keepers instead of buy them. She started seeing losses to bloat, and thena month or so later I was seeing the same issues. She and I would evaluate...

Possibly - I've treated the momma with baycox too, both times. Just in case. Zero affect on them - which I imagine it would have some effect. Their nest box REALLY stinks - it's not soiled, but their little behinds are... so they smell bad. They are still active (but cuddling more because...

Since one of my litters was about 7 DAYS old, they've had smelly diarrhea that's caked over their vents. They are now exactly 3 weeks old on T-Day. I haven't lost any. They are active. They are now 3 weeks old and hopping in and out of the box, playfighting, playing momma leapfrog. Just now...

Corid is not a very effective treatment, it simply inhibits the young protozoan from reaching the damaging life stage. It is good for preventing a cocci problem, but that's about it. I suppose it could treat cocci if you used it regularly, because eventually the adult reproducing cocci would die...

I'm fairly certain I'm seeing coccidia problems in my rabbitry. This is my second doe this year that lost drastic condition through her pregnancy despite no changes in diet and even increasing her pellet intake. The first one died when her babies were a week old. She had a big belly and had...

I currently have 5 litters available. They are all at least half related by their sire, Wylde Hare's Hermes, who has 4 legs on him with minimal showing. I also have a friend or two with unrelated litters if you'd like an unrelated pair/trio, so that's not an issue. :) Brood quality start...

The other day I was evaluating kits again in preparation for 2 pairs and a trio to go to their new homes - I was making sure everybody would be happy with their future rabbits. As I was evaluating them, I saw that most had a little bit of clear nasal discharge. It was hot, so it wasn't...