not sure how else to describe them.
I was doing up about 20 rabbits for a fellow tonight and giving them a good look over as I did them and about 18 of them had this muddy look to the lungs. I called him to ask if he had sick rabbits or just what was going on with them, he was stunned. He said I have nothing going on...no sneezing, weepy eye or anything like that. I said, mind if I ask on a board or two that I'm on...he said go ahead.
So... let me see if I can describe what I saw. Did NOT take pictures as I merely needed to get the job done.
of the 18, 14 of them were identical. break the membrane to the lung and I saw these grey lungs. I would pull them out and they were this muddy looking grey/browny colour with the faintest pink tinge around the outside. They felt spongy odd, not spongy normal.
2 of the 18 were 1/2 muddy and 1/2 red speckled pale pink lung.
2 of the 18 when I pulled the lungs out turned into mush in my hands and looked like pus kinda... like ...oh...like the gick that came out of abscess of cow when I was young. It was gross.
the rest of THOSE two rabbits I examined carefully. intestinal track looked fine. They had coccidiosis... one or two specks in the liver. So nothing very bad there. Couldn't see anything wrong with the carcass and the animals themselves seemed very bright and normal bunnies. I would never had guessed they'd have these odd lungs.
Time between death and removal of lungs was no greater than 2 minutes...IF even that. Cut of head, remove legs, hide, open 'em up, and done. really not that long of a time span...so it wasn't degradation due to excess time being taken.
Any thoughts?
We are both quite eager to understand what this might be. He says his herd is bright, productive, and doesn't appear ill. He's treated for coccidia and the livers of his rabbits were significantly better than 2 months ago.
Thank you.
I was doing up about 20 rabbits for a fellow tonight and giving them a good look over as I did them and about 18 of them had this muddy look to the lungs. I called him to ask if he had sick rabbits or just what was going on with them, he was stunned. He said I have nothing going on...no sneezing, weepy eye or anything like that. I said, mind if I ask on a board or two that I'm on...he said go ahead.
So... let me see if I can describe what I saw. Did NOT take pictures as I merely needed to get the job done.
of the 18, 14 of them were identical. break the membrane to the lung and I saw these grey lungs. I would pull them out and they were this muddy looking grey/browny colour with the faintest pink tinge around the outside. They felt spongy odd, not spongy normal.
2 of the 18 were 1/2 muddy and 1/2 red speckled pale pink lung.
2 of the 18 when I pulled the lungs out turned into mush in my hands and looked like pus kinda... like ...oh...like the gick that came out of abscess of cow when I was young. It was gross.
the rest of THOSE two rabbits I examined carefully. intestinal track looked fine. They had coccidiosis... one or two specks in the liver. So nothing very bad there. Couldn't see anything wrong with the carcass and the animals themselves seemed very bright and normal bunnies. I would never had guessed they'd have these odd lungs.
Time between death and removal of lungs was no greater than 2 minutes...IF even that. Cut of head, remove legs, hide, open 'em up, and done. really not that long of a time span...so it wasn't degradation due to excess time being taken.
Any thoughts?
We are both quite eager to understand what this might be. He says his herd is bright, productive, and doesn't appear ill. He's treated for coccidia and the livers of his rabbits were significantly better than 2 months ago.
Thank you.