JHP Homestead
Loving the herd life
I have a cage that was holding 5 ready-to-butcher meat rabbits. During the last 24 hours, 3 of these rabbits have died for unknown-to-me reasons.
They seem to be having some diarrhea and aren’t particularly interested in food, although they did eat a handful of grass yesterday.
We cut open the two that died today and didn’t see any liver spots to indicate coccidiosis. The one’s stomach and intestine contents were really watery and both had a lot of empty intestines.
They are fed pellets and some weedy grass hay that was baled off the edge of a field and has some briars and other weeds in it. I don’t think there’s anything that could be in the hay that could cause this. Or maybe there is?
Any ideas what disease/?? this could be and how to treat it or prevent it from spreading?
Thanks in advance!
They seem to be having some diarrhea and aren’t particularly interested in food, although they did eat a handful of grass yesterday.
We cut open the two that died today and didn’t see any liver spots to indicate coccidiosis. The one’s stomach and intestine contents were really watery and both had a lot of empty intestines.
They are fed pellets and some weedy grass hay that was baled off the edge of a field and has some briars and other weeds in it. I don’t think there’s anything that could be in the hay that could cause this. Or maybe there is?
Any ideas what disease/?? this could be and how to treat it or prevent it from spreading?
Thanks in advance!