Posting for a friend.
She had a doe that got mastitis, by the time they noticed the condition the doe was too far gone (teats and surrounding area was black/painful and rabbit was off feed and water). So they put the rabbit down.
Here's the big question:
they well meaningly fostered off the litter to another doe for the past day but we were reading that the kits can carry the bacteria from mastitis to the foster mom but we haven't read in sources what the kits can/would do to a clean foster mom...
What should she do now? Put down that litter? Or wait and see? Is the mom foster contagious in the sense that she could later get mastitis now or what?
Thanks for any tips or experience you may share! I want to help her out but personally haven't gone through this before
She had a doe that got mastitis, by the time they noticed the condition the doe was too far gone (teats and surrounding area was black/painful and rabbit was off feed and water). So they put the rabbit down.
Here's the big question:
they well meaningly fostered off the litter to another doe for the past day but we were reading that the kits can carry the bacteria from mastitis to the foster mom but we haven't read in sources what the kits can/would do to a clean foster mom...
What should she do now? Put down that litter? Or wait and see? Is the mom foster contagious in the sense that she could later get mastitis now or what?
Thanks for any tips or experience you may share! I want to help her out but personally haven't gone through this before