Hey guys, just wanted to get your imput and advice about this issue.
Honky is sick. She's not drinking or eating. Yesterday I got her to sip a little from a small shallow dish in my hands but she hasn't taken anything from her water bottle since 3/12 when I last filled it. I've tried new water, new bottles, new crocks... she's just not drinking. She's also stopped eating. Not hay or feed. No BOSS or oats either. I did get her to eat a handfull of weeds but it took her all day, and she's eaten a bit of apple too but she wasn't terribly excited about it. The 6 surviving kits were all fed yesterday morning but I moved them into Bride's nestbox (now she's caring for 13) anyway hoping that taking some of the stress off her body might help. Anyway, this morning she still hasn't eaten or drank although again she took a bit of apple. She also has a bit of green snot around one nostril. I've read enough on here to have heard that this is bad and means my nest step is probably culling. The problem is that there've been no strangers, no new rabbits and I haven't been to any rabbitrys lately, so I'm not sure how this happened. I haven't even been around anyone else to raises rabbits, at least that I know of. She just had her kits on 3/10 so I'm hoping she's just ill from the bodily stress and that it's not something contagious, but if it's snuffles do you think it's too late to save the other rabbits? I'm moving her to the garage as soon as I can this morning. I think I'll give her another 24 hours before culling, just incase she starts to get better.
Honky is sick. She's not drinking or eating. Yesterday I got her to sip a little from a small shallow dish in my hands but she hasn't taken anything from her water bottle since 3/12 when I last filled it. I've tried new water, new bottles, new crocks... she's just not drinking. She's also stopped eating. Not hay or feed. No BOSS or oats either. I did get her to eat a handfull of weeds but it took her all day, and she's eaten a bit of apple too but she wasn't terribly excited about it. The 6 surviving kits were all fed yesterday morning but I moved them into Bride's nestbox (now she's caring for 13) anyway hoping that taking some of the stress off her body might help. Anyway, this morning she still hasn't eaten or drank although again she took a bit of apple. She also has a bit of green snot around one nostril. I've read enough on here to have heard that this is bad and means my nest step is probably culling. The problem is that there've been no strangers, no new rabbits and I haven't been to any rabbitrys lately, so I'm not sure how this happened. I haven't even been around anyone else to raises rabbits, at least that I know of. She just had her kits on 3/10 so I'm hoping she's just ill from the bodily stress and that it's not something contagious, but if it's snuffles do you think it's too late to save the other rabbits? I'm moving her to the garage as soon as I can this morning. I think I'll give her another 24 hours before culling, just incase she starts to get better.