I think I need someone to bounce things off of...
I'm in the middle of integrating my new French Angora stock into my herd. I thought I was in the clear, but have had a problem pop up again.
Long story is the youngest doe I imported started showing pasturella-like symptoms in quarantine (rattling, white snot). She was treated over 2 weeks (ciprofloxacin topically to nasal/respiratory system, and systemic sulfa), and remained asymptomatic over two weeks so I moved her out of quarantine a while ago. Her symptoms seem to be cropping back up after the last 2-3 weeks where she lived otherwise happily in the main rabbitry.
While I don't have a problem re-isolating her, it's beginning to appear unlikely that I will be able to keep this down permanently in her case. And while culling is a solution, it's one I'm hoping to avoid until I can breed at least one replacement from her. I only imported three rabbits, and locally French Angora are very rare. As such, I don't want to lose her contribution to the gene-pool, especially as she has very strong shoulders that would be excellent to integrate into my future lines...
But she's also only ~20 weeks old right now - a little young for breeding in my estimation.
The saving grace is that my other two angoras appear to be largely immune to this (They did grow up in the same herd, and were show attendees - they basically required strong immunity to get by), and there is no indication at current that any other rabbits are affected, for now.
Does anyone have any thoughts about how to suppress this, at least long enough to get this doe producing kits that I can then select the healthiest from?
Ugh. Bunny drama is soul crushing.
I'm in the middle of integrating my new French Angora stock into my herd. I thought I was in the clear, but have had a problem pop up again.
Long story is the youngest doe I imported started showing pasturella-like symptoms in quarantine (rattling, white snot). She was treated over 2 weeks (ciprofloxacin topically to nasal/respiratory system, and systemic sulfa), and remained asymptomatic over two weeks so I moved her out of quarantine a while ago. Her symptoms seem to be cropping back up after the last 2-3 weeks where she lived otherwise happily in the main rabbitry.
While I don't have a problem re-isolating her, it's beginning to appear unlikely that I will be able to keep this down permanently in her case. And while culling is a solution, it's one I'm hoping to avoid until I can breed at least one replacement from her. I only imported three rabbits, and locally French Angora are very rare. As such, I don't want to lose her contribution to the gene-pool, especially as she has very strong shoulders that would be excellent to integrate into my future lines...
But she's also only ~20 weeks old right now - a little young for breeding in my estimation.
The saving grace is that my other two angoras appear to be largely immune to this (They did grow up in the same herd, and were show attendees - they basically required strong immunity to get by), and there is no indication at current that any other rabbits are affected, for now.
Does anyone have any thoughts about how to suppress this, at least long enough to get this doe producing kits that I can then select the healthiest from?
Ugh. Bunny drama is soul crushing.