Kit with injury. Please help.

[countrymomma1991]

We were checking all the kits over today and we realized that one has an injury on it. We don't know what it is from if its a scratch or a disease. We just want to make sure that it isn't something that is going to hurt the other ones.

 

[trinityoaks]

Could that be an abcess?

 

[MamaSheepdog]

I'm sorry, but I have never seen anything quite like that. :? It looks almost like a bite from an insect since it has that little hole in the center.

You might try some campho phenique on it and see if that helps any.

 

[MaggieJ]

Spider bite was my first thought. But I've never seen anything like it on a rabbit either.

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[Dood]

I had a kit born with something that looked like this. I assumed the doe had some how injured it in birth but unfortunately I noticed the hind legs of this kit didn't work 'right', then not at all and he had no bladder control and was always messy so I re- diagnosed it as exposed spinal cord and culled him within 7 days.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

Oooh- it is right on the back bone.

 

[Marinea]

I am leaning toward an abscess, mostly because of that apparent hole in the center.

 

[countrymomma1991]

If it is an abscess how would I treat that? Thank you everyone for your advice

 

[Secuono]

With other animals and people, hot compresses for awhile to see if there's any change. But in a rabbit nest, they are heating each other themselves.
If it's fluid, you could use a small gauge needle and suction out a bit, if there's no blood, you may be able to pull more. I wouldn't cut into it, just because the kit still lives in a nest where they pee on each other and walk on top of everyone, that will get infected fast. Even if you put on a bandaid, mom will rip it off.
If you do use a needle, use a new one for each skin prick.

It kind of looks like a bug bite to me. But thinking of where it's located, I would watch it very closely, if it gets any larger or you see loss of movement in the back end, I would start trying to alleviate the pressure and hoping the infection/swelling isn't going into the spine.

 

[coffeenutdesigns]

Spider bite was my first thought. But I've never seen anything like it on a rabbit either.

That is what it looked like to me, too, but I haven't ever seen one on a rabbit.