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[BethanyS]

i also bounced and rocked and massaged the little fellas belly lol he seemed to like it

 

[shadow rabbit10]

Lol. Were you able to get rid of your hairball?

 

[BethanyS]

pumpkin was docs first choice. if she does not eat a lot of hay that is probably why she has a block. maybe take her green and try just to give her hay for a bit. they really need that tough fiber in the hay to push out hairball in their intestines

 

[shadow rabbit10]

She only gets greens at one time during the day. The rest of the time she will have to eat hay. (No rhyme intended) I also have papaya enzyme pills that's will feed her.

 

[BethanyS]

Yes. I ended up taking him to the vet but by the time I got him there he actually had soft poops lol the doc done an x-ray and said he had some inflammation in his back probably from straining. he gave me a pain killer an anti inflammatory but the block was cured naturally. I am glad he self medicated turning away his salad and chowing down on hay. I hope you're fuzzy lop gets to feeling better

 

[Duckchick2011]

Sounds like your doing all the right things as far as hairballs go, I don't have anything to add as far as tips for dealing with it but I sure hope she starts to feel better soon.

Bethany, Chinchilla is a breed of bunny and a color, it is where all the yellow is removed from the coat leaving a blue colored agouti rabbit.

 

[Duckchick2011]

could be both a friend had a Netherland Dwarf buck and a Mini rex buck get to a Mini rex doe not meaning too

Yeah, I'm thinking that is what happened. You see I was so sure that I bred the White Buck to her but she had a solid colored black kit which just can't happen if you breed a Chin. to Rew. ...or at least I don't think so.

The problem is that I really don't remember breeding her to the Dutch...not that it didn't happen, I just need to keep better records next time. LOL

 

[BethanyS]

Never knew chinchilla was a color... since that has happened I try to keep him brushed out. I groom dogs for a living and blow alot of loose coat off with a force blow dryer.when he has a heavy shed cycle I actually pluck loose hair out lightly. I can get a ball of hair the size of him off!

 

[Bunnylady]

Yeah, I'm thinking that is what happened. You see I was so sure that I bred the White Buck to her but she had a solid colored black kit which just can't happen if you breed a Chin. to Rew. ...or at least I don't think so.

The problem is that I really don't remember breeding her to the Dutch...not that it didn't happen, I just need to keep better records next time. LOL

Wellll . . . .

You can get a solid black from a REW and a Chin, if both the Chin and the REW are carrying Self genes. What you have is a self-patterned Chin, which is slightly less densely black than a regular black, though you might have to put one of each side-by-side to see the difference.

 

[Duckchick2011]

Oh! That is so cool, and makes a lot of sense. You see I was working on my bunnies genotypes...you know, I got this and this so this rabbit must carry this and this, and realized that to have a black kit I would have to have a Dominate full color C for that to happen which was a gene neither parents could have contributed. It was driving me crazy because even though it wasn't impossible that she bred to the dutch I remembered specifically breeding her to the Rew.

If he is definitely a self chin. it clears up everything.

Thank you Bunnylady