Pasturealla, what to do after culling sick one?

[Joe n TN]

It was weighing, checking over bunnies day and we found one of the purebred Californians with a rough case of the snuffles. My wife said she sounded bad and since I live in a residential area I am lucky to be getting away with my rabbits as is, so I have no other area where I could quarantine.

I dispatched the sick one so now my question is, what do I do next? I have an 8 week old litter, no health isssues. The sick one came out of the month old litter. My hutch holds all 4 cages, shared inner cage dividers so theu are all in pretty much the same vicinity of each other. No one else is showing any sign of sickness right now.

What can I do to help ensure no one else gets sick? Sorry for the millionth thread on this, but after 30 minutes of reading old posts I couldn't find this exact question. Thank you,

Joe

 

[ladysown]

if you have no quarantine area, all you can do is watch and see. check them daily. anyone with dirty front legs, or snot on their nose you cull them immediately.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

I culled a buck due to an abscess back in November. I used my steam cleaner with vinegar added to the water and sprayed down all the cages. I think I followed that up by misting all of the cages down with alcohol as well. I also had to cull a kit with a runny nose a couple of months ago. I misted the cage down with alcohol. None of the other kits in the litter developed any problems.

I'm sorry you lost a kit, but culling it quickly was the best thing you could have done. You acted in the best interest of your herd.

 

[-HRanchito]

My rabbit cages have just been scattered in various places around my yard since dealing with 1 case a few weeks ago. I have them all quarantined based on how suspicious I am of them. Checking up my kits twice/day for any symptoms of being unwell.

I got some saline nasal spray - 1 bottle per rabbit that is related to the sick one. Since I couldn't get the sick one to sneeze in front of me, I got a bottle for her and squirted it in her nose, so I could be sure she had the snuffles, and that made it pretty obvious. I've been using the bottles on my other rabbits to see if any white snot drains out. So far, so good!