What Rabbits Do You Have? Show Off Your Rabbits Here!

[dutchbunny83]

Hi all!

I have a rabbit emergency and while this thread is for showing rabbits, it's the only rabbit thread I can find that is still active, so really hoping you guys can help me out!!!

We have 2 rabbits that are supposedly angora mixes. We picked them up as bunnies a flock swap around Easter for our kids because they were begging for them. No health issues with them. We had them in a hutch and they kept escaping and burroughing under the shed (we live in city limits on 1/3 acre fenced in with privacy fence). We left the hutch door open and leave fresh food & water daily. They run around all day and play, eat my garden, hang out with the chickens who free range as well. At night they go into their bourough under the shed to sleep instead of the their hutch. They've been doing that since about June so we just let them do it, they seem a lot happier. Every week or so we round them up to check their teeth & nails, and they've always looked good.

This morning when we did we saw that one seemed to have an abscess which was opened?!? The pus is all out, but it kinda smells. The vet is closed on Sunday so turned to google and BYC. If this is an abscess from what I am reading they will continue to occur and I will have to keep taking him to the vet for surgeries? Long term that sounds very expensive! What can I do now to help him out???

What can I clean it with? What can I put on him? Is there some kind of antibiotic or something I can give him (like tylan I use on chickens)?

PLEASE HELP!!!

 

[mara1]

Okay,
Know about about cats and dogs more. We seen very few rabbits when I worked as a LVT. It is Sunday so I would clean the abscess with warm water mixed with nolvasan solution or vetrimycin wash. Not sure how deep it is but you can use a syringe without the needle to flush it. Pack it with triple antibiotic ointment and bandage with gauze and vet wrap. Keep it clean and bunny confined in a dry clean area. Hard to see exactly where it is on the bunny from the pic. If all you have is tylan I believe the dose is 5mg/kg oral up to 10mg/kg. I do know some injections can cause abscesses so I would medicate orally until you talk to a vet or somebody else with more experience chimes in. Hopefully it is just a injury and not systemic. Any other signs?

 

[mara1]

You might want to try the rabbittalk site also

 

[dutchbunny83]

Thank you SOOOO much!!!
Never heard of that site, checking into it now then heading to TSC for some oral Tylan.

 

[SarahMG]

I don't exactly have my rabbit anymore, but I'd just like to share my crazy story

I was at my Grandparent's farm, walking with one of the dogs through a field, heading for the woods. Brutis (The dog) took off into the woods. A few minutes later, he came bounding back with something in his mouth that was squealing loudly. I thought it was a frog, and told him to put it down. He ever so gently laid it down, and decided to take a closer look. My jaw literally dropped as I looked at the tiny baby rabbit that Brutis had very carefully brought to me. There wasn't a single scratch on him, even though he had been in Brutis's huge jaws. The rabbit's eyes and ears were still completely shut, and I decided that I couldn't just leave him there. So I picked him up, put him in my shirt, and went back to my Mom who was in the garden. "Mom, we have a small problem!" I called out as I walked up. I showed her the rabbit, and we headed for the house. I kept "Rabbit" (From Winnie the Pooh) close to me to keep him warm, and we went to the store and I got kitten formula. Mom kept saying: "Anytime someone tries to raise a wild baby rabbit, it dies. So don't get your hopes up." But Rabbit lived, and thrived. Finally, though, he became wild, and we had to release him. (And my Mom was the one crying her eyes out

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I still believe that Rabbit is still alive. There is a pair of rabbits that stay in our yard. One is clearly a male. The smaller female quickly runs away as soon as she you look at them. But you can walk quite close to the male, and he just sits there, calmly watching you, nibbling on the grass. I talk to him, and he listens, and just sits there watching me. It may not be him, but I like to think it is.

 

[ray24]

Well, my rabbit kindling did not turn out so well. I went to check on her at 6:00 this morning. she had 3 babies that looked very healthy and she pulled lots of fur. I checked on her again this evening and saw 6 babies, all appearing very healthy, covered with ants. The ants have already killed 2 babies the others probably will not survive. I plan to rebreed her in about 2 weeks, i'm gonna put her in a hutch that's 4.5 feet off the ground next time. my rabbit did everything perfect, it's just the darn ants!! I HATE ANTS!!

 

[Lynzi777]

Well, my rabbit kindling did not turn out so well. I went to check on her at 6:00 this morning. she had 3 babies that looked very healthy and she pulled lots of fur. I checked on her again this evening and saw 6 babies, all appearing very healthy, covered with ants. The ants have already killed 2 babies the others probably will not survive. I plan to rebreed her in about 2 weeks, i'm gonna put her in a hutch that's 4.5 feet off the ground next time. my rabbit did everything perfect, it's just the darn ants!! I HATE ANTS!!

So sorry! I began to read your post, read the word ANTS and had to glance over to see where you were located! No ants here...not this time of year anyway! We've gotten snow already! Do you have anywhere you can move her and the 4 other babies?

 

[ray24]

So sorry! I began to read your post, read the word ANTS and had to glance over to see where you were located! No ants here...not this time of year anyway! We've gotten snow already! Do you have anywhere you can move her and the 4 other babies?

I could move her to that hutch high off the ground, but I feel it's already to late. the babies have spots all over where they have been bitten.

 

[Lynzi777]

I could move her to that hutch high off the ground, but I feel it's already to late. the babies have spots all over where they have been bitten.

Ohhhh...I'm so sorry. I know how upsetting that can be especially after the wait. I had a doe kindle 5 kits and didn't take care of them, they all passed on the wire of the cage when I got home from the store the day she delivered. It was her first litter and probably didn't know what she was doing but I was still so devastated. I bred her a month later and got another 5 healthy kits from her - that she actually took care of the second time around.

 

[UnlabeledMama]

Well, my rabbit kindling did not turn out so well. I went to check on her at 6:00 this morning. she had 3 babies that looked very healthy and she pulled lots of fur. I checked on her again this evening and saw 6 babies, all appearing very healthy, covered with ants. The ants have already killed 2 babies the others probably will not survive. I plan to rebreed her in about 2 weeks, i'm gonna put her in a hutch that's 4.5 feet off the ground next time. my rabbit did everything perfect, it's just the darn ants!! I HATE ANTS!!

When we first started raising rabbits an old friend of my mom's who grew up in Texas told us we needed to put tuna cans filled with motor oil underneath the legs of all the hutches so the ants didn't get the baby rabbits. We don't have an ant problem like that in North Carolina, but that might help you ...