Help analyzing liver of recently butchered doe

[Wineberry Hill]

Recently butchered a doe that refused to lift for buck. Otherwise she appeared to be healthy, not overweight. Behaved normally, not lethargic...etc.

Healthy looking pellets.

I noticed her liver is unhealthy, possibly Coccidiosis?

Thoughts?

 

[TKT]

Did you open up one of those big capsules? Those look more like flukes to my novice eye, but wait for the experts. I'm just following..

 

[Alaska Satin]

Recently butchered a doe that refused to lift for buck. Otherwise she appeared to be healthy, not overweight. Behaved normally, not lethargic...etc.

Healthy looking pellets.

I noticed her liver is unhealthy, possibly Coccidiosis?

Thoughts?
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That looks like coccidiosis to me, too, but I've never actually seen liver flukes in a rabbit.

Here's an image from the article "MANAGEMENT OF SEVERE HEPATIC COCCIDIOSIS IN DOMESTIC RABBITS"

https://www.semanticscholar.org/pap...echa/bfbdf55e0dfcf362621e38fbbfcd28856b1e76ef

And here's an image of liver fluke damage from https://www.researchgate.net/figure...ge-shows-the-tunnels-and-caves_fig11_38114306

Liver flukes (F hepatica). Axial contrast-enhanced CT image shows the tunnels and caves sign (arrows), a finding typical of F hepatica. This sign consists of serpentine tubular and nodular hypoattenuating areas from the peripheral to the central liver. It represents sterile necrosis of hepatic tissue digested by the parasite. ​

If you have the stomach for it, there is a video of someone pulling flukes from a deer liver here:

The point of posting this is to note that the surface of the liver doesn't seem have nodules/pustules indicating the fluke infestation.

 

[maisaksson]

I noticed her liver is unhealthy, possibly Coccidiosis?

I don't know but I'd like to get back into microscopy. Does anybody here do their own microscopy for blood analysis and/or pathogen ID for their rabbits?

 

[ladysown]

doesn't look right to be cocci.... (though I wouldn't be surprised that cocci is part of her problem as she does have some individual nodules). There's a group on facebook called rabbits inside out.... hugely knowledgeable people on there who might be able to help more. (just ignore the also rans)

 

[TKT]

@Alaska Satin Thanks for the info! 😉