imajpm
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Kinda need a cooler head than mine right now. I don't know if disaster has struck or a combination of mishaps.
I was out doing my evening feeding and I noticed Pony Boy, my junior buck, was bleeding from the nose. Shortly before this, the chickens were attempting to make a grain raid and there was a great deal of flapping about when they discovered they could not perch on the edge of a paper bag. They startled the rabbits nearby and this buck was one of them. My first though was he scratched or smashed his nose. When I finished I checked him again and there was more blood beneath his hutch. So I removed him, hutch and all, and put him in quarantine, just to be safe. Later I went out to turn their lights off and to check him again and I found more blood drops plus bloody but otherwise normal in appearance, poop under his hutch . I just checked him again and his poop is now normal, no blood, and his nose is good.
Today is the first day I resumed feeding fodder as well. He has never had any so it's new food to him. He is 4 months old right now. He is eating like a pig, drinking well and otherwise looks like himself. I did a visual check on the rest of the rabbits as I did not want to touch anything and they all look good. There has not been a new rabbit in my barn for 18 months, nor has there been any visitors since July. I've not been to any rabbitries either. I have new hay but they have been eating that for a week. Otherwise there have been no changes.
Pony Boy is my backup angora buck so I do not want to cull him if I am just being paranoid. It looks upsettingly like RHD but that is supposed to be eradicated from the US or at worst, very rare. What else could it be? I guess I will find out soon enough and I may have to cull him anyway if he has health issues
That bleeding is worrisome.
I was out doing my evening feeding and I noticed Pony Boy, my junior buck, was bleeding from the nose. Shortly before this, the chickens were attempting to make a grain raid and there was a great deal of flapping about when they discovered they could not perch on the edge of a paper bag. They startled the rabbits nearby and this buck was one of them. My first though was he scratched or smashed his nose. When I finished I checked him again and there was more blood beneath his hutch. So I removed him, hutch and all, and put him in quarantine, just to be safe. Later I went out to turn their lights off and to check him again and I found more blood drops plus bloody but otherwise normal in appearance, poop under his hutch . I just checked him again and his poop is now normal, no blood, and his nose is good.
Today is the first day I resumed feeding fodder as well. He has never had any so it's new food to him. He is 4 months old right now. He is eating like a pig, drinking well and otherwise looks like himself. I did a visual check on the rest of the rabbits as I did not want to touch anything and they all look good. There has not been a new rabbit in my barn for 18 months, nor has there been any visitors since July. I've not been to any rabbitries either. I have new hay but they have been eating that for a week. Otherwise there have been no changes.
Pony Boy is my backup angora buck so I do not want to cull him if I am just being paranoid. It looks upsettingly like RHD but that is supposed to be eradicated from the US or at worst, very rare. What else could it be? I guess I will find out soon enough and I may have to cull him anyway if he has health issues
That bleeding is worrisome.
