Eye boogers, pinworm overload, scald, mucus in the butt... What's going on with my poor doe?

[Naelin]

One of my does, Io (3 months 3 weeks old), has been presenting a lot of different symptoms of either one or a bunch of things that we can't quite pin down.

-A week or two ago I noticed a dirty tail, but I didn't mind because they tend to sit on dirty patches when free ranging. But she didn't clean it, and we eventually found it had matted. After cutting away the mats, she had very red skin under it. We cleaned well and apply local antiseptic and it seems to be getting better.
-She was looking slightly lethargic and has white boogers coming out of one eye. No sneezing, the nose is clean, the other eye seems ok. After cleaning the eye and tail she seems to be feeling better, but then...
-When doing a checkup we noticed a little off-white mucus coming out of the anus. When cleaning it, pinworms came out. We checked again a couple of hours later and a lot of pinworms kept coming out.
-her skin is slightly scaly in areas. She developed the same crusty toes that I mentioned in a previous thread that received no answers, but in her mum's case they went away on their own.


She doesn't have a distended abdomen, is growing fine and eating and drinking fine, but I am puzzled about all this symptoms. I understand pinworms are non pathological, but so many coming out alongside some mucus makes me think something is going on with her gut.
Could you help me figure out what may be going on with her? I would hate to lose her.

 

[eco2pia]

I mean, the pinworms do not belong there...so they are "pathological" meaning they are a sign of something wrong. Maybe not fatal, but still.

I missed your other post, so maybe this was already suggested, but this is a situation where I would use ivermectin. All of those symptoms sound like they could be caused by parasites, and ivermectin is one of the better broad spectrum anti-parasitics I am aware of. Even if she has something else going on, reducing her parasite load will help her because it is one less thing for her body to fight.

That said, I am a meat breeder and I would cull a rabbit who failed to thrive, so that is a whole different thing. Also I see you are not in the US, so I do not know what is available where you are.

 

[Naelin]

I mean, the pinworms do not belong there...so they are "pathological" meaning they are a sign of something wrong. Maybe not fatal, but still.

For what I've seen doing some research, they may actually belong there (it seems to be thought that they perform some important function in the digestive tract of rabbits. A big overload may indicate some imbalance but they apparently are not the cause of problems... just what I've read around, of course I'm not an expert)

I missed your other post, so maybe this was already suggested, but this is a situation where I would use ivermectin.

I already dosed her with ivermectin... only to find out that it doesn't work in rabbit pinworms. Oh well... it may work for the scaly skin if it's something mite-related so it's not like it's going to do her any harm...

That said, I am a meat breeder and I would cull a rabbit who failed to thrive, so that is a whole different thing.

I get it and I'd do the same if I was in a different situation... but at the moment I'm just starting and in my situation (I live in the middle of a metropolis and have no car) getting new breeders is difficult. I don't plan on keeping any of her descendants since her dad was also not very good health-wise... but I want to try to get some kits going while I procure good does to replace her and another one of my girls.

Hell, why put excuses, the reality is that I've just been with quite some misfortune with my breeders lately, and I'm trying to slow the misfortunes down while I set up again a good set of breeders. I will probably end up culling her if she keeps going down, but I didn't want to do that before figuring out if it maybe was something minor that I just didn't know how to fix.