Quarantining for a month doesn't necessarily help....

[ladysown]

One black doe brought in.

Quarantined her for a month. She passed with flying colours.
Bred her.
Litter of five kits.
Of the five ONE has survived and is thriving in it's pet home. Lost them to a variety of things, all kinda different but nothing I've experienced before. New stuff to my herd.

In the cage next where that doe was raising her litter have three young keeper rabbits. One of them is looking off tonight, slight head tilt and I'm going SHOOT...what did that stupid (now culled rabbit who even culled and examined thoroughly I could see NOTHING wrong with her) doe bring into my herd? I have NEVER EVER had head tilt in my herd, and I'm just ...ARGH!!!!!!!!!!

I'm treating with ivermectin...all three of them. Really glad I didn't put anything into the cage that doe was in. It'll be getting a good scrubbing. But now I'm faced with... do I cull these three kits? I've treated them for now but what do I do? What could this be? E.cuniculi makes sense based on symptoms but it's just so frustrating...

I'm rather quite annoyed.

 

[MaggieJ]

So sorry you're going through this, Ladysown.

Pop them into strict quarantine while you decide what to do. Personally, I would cull them, but you may want to wait and see.

It would seem that the doe you brought in was a carrier of one or more nasties... but was asymptomatic. You're right... quarantine does not always help. But it does catch a good percentage of problems before they can reach the rest of the herd.

 

[Mary Ann's Rabbitry]

I just had to cull two doe that i bought from a lady ... I had them closer to a month now. One had pasterala for sure. So i culled her. Then the other looked like wry neck to me. But not sure. I had never had it before either. I culled her too. I still have one doe and buck from this line. I am not to sure what to do about them. I have a post about them. Yours sounds the same idea. The Mother of the kits are fine... I am waiting to see what you are going to do about this. As i am in the same situation.

 

[ladysown]

I will give the one kit three days to recover, the other two don't show signs of anything, but if they do.. I'm culling them. Simply not worth it.

 

[akane]

It takes at least week for ivermectin to effect wry neck in most cases. 3 days won't do anything. You might as well cull now. We had it go through from some barn swallows and robins nesting above the colony.

 

[SarahMelisse]

Can you treat rabbits of all ages with ivermectin? Or pregnant does?

 

[ladysown]

is it best to cull akane? or give the affected kit a week?<br /><br />__________ Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:43 pm __________<br /><br />well... I culled that kit, it was looking worse this morning.

the other two are just fine. Go figure. Anyways, i was chatting with hubby last night and he says "we can beat this too", so looking forward, we will beat this thing too!

 

[ZRabbits]

So sorry to hear about the kit. Glad to hear the other two are doing well. Hoping no more illnesses pop up and you and your husband beat that thing successfully.

Karen

 

[Miss M]

Can you treat rabbits of all ages with ivermectin? Or pregnant does?

I don't know about kits, but I do know you can treat pregnant does.

Dutch seem to have a vulnerability to ivermectin. A number of people have had Dutch die after taking ivermectin.