possibly pasteurella

[akane]

Why is there never good news? We may have our first serious pasteurella outbreak. 2 weeks ago the youngest litter of kits had wet clumps around their eyes. I removed their nestbox and cleaned the corner they were huddling in and it got better. Then it got worse but I found some hedgehog poop had mixed with water under the tool case nearby. You couldn't smell it standing up but when I was moving stuff away from that bottom cage it was absolutely horrible. I thought that was it.

My husband just found my favorite little ND buck, Kido, on his side. I pulled him out and he was floppy with lots of goo in his eyes and a wet nose. His water bottle may have malfunctioned while my husband was taking care of them so he's trying to get water down Kido but it's doubtful it will do anything even if it's not pasteurella. After a quick rabbit inspection the 3 does and Kido's son, Enki, all look fine but the kits have various symptoms.

I don't really want to kill everyone off but pasteurella is a death sentence for the chinchillas. We just scrubbed down with dish soap and Josh will again when he's done. I was also going to get my new pair of ND next weekend and I have nowhere to quarantine. I'm not sure where pasteurella could have come from. Our last new rabbits were in the winter and we haven't been to pet stores or shows in at least 2 months. I suppose the newer does could have been carrying it and some stress made it finally appear. Not sure what though.

I wish I'd bred snickers to Kido. I will have to use his son/grandson who is a little on the big side. Praying at least Enki and Snickers don't have to be put down to protect the chinchillas.

 

[ilovehome]

Oh NO! I hope it is not pasteurella either. I've been worried about that for my new chins too, since I consider all my buns exposed because we show regularly. I tend to my chins only before the buns in the am and after my shower in the evenings to try to prevent exposure.

I hope you don't have to do anything drastic, and it is not pasteurella after all.

 

[akane]

There is a lot of potential for respiratory problems in the hedgehog room that the rabbits share and I haven't cleaned much since my surgery a week ago now. I'm going to get all the cages cleaned and the floor scrubbed and hope everyone returns to normal. If any kits take a turn for the worst or another adult dies I'm going to butcher down to just Enki and Snickers. We do take precautions with the chins already and it's not really a unique situation. We once had some hamsters die of strep zoo that the neighbor's horses brought back from camp. I think I took a piece of infected tack in to the house because I didn't realize an illness could travel between a horse and a hamster.

 

[Miss M]

Right after surgery, too!

I hope everything clears up okay! :clover: :clover: :clover: :clover: :clover:

 

[Marinea]

Yikes!

I have no helpful advice, unfortunately, but *fingers crossed* all get better soon!

 

[akane]

My does with kits are getting rather skinny. :/ They have unlimited nutrena pellets (couldn't get a bag of manna pro this month) and I piled on the alfalfa hay. I have a little grain, flax, and sunflower seed supplement that I have given 2 crocks full to each doe the past few days. My container of oil supplement leaked out all over the kitchen counter. It's a very nice mess. Snickers, who doesn't have a litter, and Enki don't have a really noticeable weight change but they may not feel as solid as usual. Enki is particularly muscular and usually more solid feeling than a typical netherland. Sui is producing massive quantities of milk so I figured she was just over doing herself but I'm not sure about the broken sable doe (I don't like her so she hasn't been named : ). The broken sable doe's 3 kits are a bit bony too. Sui only has one so it can gorge itself on milk if it wants. Broken sable has had an empty water bottle every day the past 4 days so Josh put on a 2nd bottle until we figure out if it's leaking bottle, illness, or some other unknown reason for thirst. Kido was the same with his water bottle and since he was only like 1lb and there was a wet corner near the bottle we figured it was leaky but maybe it wasn't. Unfortunately I didn't get a necropsy soon enough on Kido to see the state of his organs.