Buck with watery eyes

[Diamond]

My young NZ buck has come up with weepy eyes. Clear, watery discharge. No redness around the cornea, nose is clear.

I put him in quarantine and scrubbed down his hutch with a strong bleach solution.

A young friend of mine did rabbits for 4-H. She said that the cause could be environmental: change in weather (it has become very very wet, warm, humid here), allergic reaction to the grass hay I supplement him with.

He was spraying his hutch quite badly, I had him in a wood hutch with wire floor so all the walls were saturated with buck pee (= ammonia )

So I am keeping him an a wire portable cage in isolation, without hay, just pellets and water. I sure hope it resolves on its own, and that it is not the early stage of the dreaded snuffles.

So far this is an isolated case and none of my other rabbits show any change to their health.

Any suggestions?????? :bunnyhop:

 

[garden lady]

My young NZ buck has come up with weepy eyes. Clear, watery discharge. No redness around the cornea, nose is clear.

I put him in quarantine and scrubbed down his hutch with a strong bleach solution.

A young friend of mine did rabbits for 4-H. She said that the cause could be environmental: change in weather (it has become very very wet, warm, humid here), allergic reaction to the grass hay I supplement him with.

He was spraying his hutch quite badly, I had him in a wood hutch with wire floor so all the walls were saturated with buck pee (= ammonia )

So I am keeping him an a wire portable cage in isolation, without hay, just pellets and water. I sure hope it resolves on its own, and that it is not the early stage of the dreaded snuffles.

So far this is an isolated case and none of my other rabbits show any change to their health.

Any suggestions?????? :bunnyhop:

Sounds just like my buck Snickers. He has a wood hutch with wire floor. I cannot smell ammonia though. Their hutch is big, but he had been spraying. He had hay, but now has straw. If it was really contagious I think the others would have it. I also made up my mind I am not going to isolate sick rabbits. I have no place to put them and I think if I move them they will get sicker. There will never be any new rabbits brought in. When the new kit had a weepy eye, the rest did not get it. I have been treating Snickers with Terramycin Eye Ointment. I have been reading and reading about this and now I am thinking there is something with moisture and lack of sunshine. The medicine I got for my cat and she never had a weepy eye in the summer, but would get it in the fall when cloudy. My other 2 cats never got it. The kit was in the back in the nest box and moisture from them peeing in the hay. We all of a sudden got rainy and cloudy weather. I put cardboard up on their doors to block wind and I think could be Snickers had sprayed in his bed or maybe he is more stressed or something because he does spray. I get apple sticks for him to chew on. The females just lay around and nothing bothers them, but Snickers and Cream had been fussing through the wire, not a lot, but something new. I raised greyhounds and raced them at race tracks. You have one building at the track and one dog throws up and no place to move it and usually it was going through the whole compound. One dog coughed and you can bet other kennels had it too, but you might get 10 dogs coughing out of 70. If you kept your dogs healthy then you might only get a few. Some people might have their whole kennel get it. It was their immune systems that made the difference. Same on the farm with puppies. As soon as it got cloudy and rainy, coccidiosis, but only if they were wormy or some stress like just weaned, vaccinated, so I got where nobody was moved, vaccinated or anything if the weather was rainy and cloudy. I started putting the ointment in his eye 3 times a day instead of 2 and I think that made a difference. I just read you said it was wet and humid where you are at and that is probably it. Best guess I can come up with. Also, just thought of something else. When I was researching the weepy eye in rabbits I read about their immune systems and dandelions can boost their immune system. I had been feeding piles of greens to these rabbits, but over a week or so now they have gone done to almost none other than kale and leaves. I have been trying to find the best in the yard for the kits. The lack of greens happened when the rain and clouds came. So, about 3 days ago I started picking dandelions for Snickers after reading what they can do for their immune system. I really went searching today in the yard and gave all of them a couple of cups of greens.