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Rabbit Foot Dermatitis: Symptoms & Treatment
Rabbit sore hocks start as hair loss, crusting, and redness, then deep pus cavities if untreated—even sepsis. Treatment is daily cleaning with peroxide, deep medication, an E-collar, and consistent care.
Rabbit Foot Dermatitis: Symptoms & Treatment
Rabbit sore hocks start as hair loss, crusting, and redness, then deep pus cavities if untreated—even sepsis. Treatment is daily cleaning with peroxide, deep medication, an E-collar, and consistent care.
Rabbit Foot Dermatitis: Symptoms & Treatment
Rabbit sore hocks start as hair loss, crusting, and redness, then deep pus cavities if untreated—even sepsis. Treatment is daily cleaning with peroxide, deep medication, an E-collar, and consistent care.
What Causes Foot Dermatitis (Sore Hocks) in Rabbits?
Rabbit foot dermatitis (sore hocks) is a chronic Staphylococcus infection sparked by damp cages and wire-floor scrapes. Treatment: a smooth resin cage, wound cleaning, iodine, erythromycin, penicillin, and daily exercise.
Causes of Paralysis in Rabbits
Rabbit paralysis can come from lumbar spinal proliferation (spinal fusion in seniors) or intervertebral disc disease. Both reduce mobility and may progress to partial or full paralysis; a vet confirms the cause.
How to Prevent and Treat Rabbit ‘Big Belly’ Disease
Rabbit big-belly disease strikes weanling kits and can kill in 2–3 days, driven by moldy feed or poor nutrition. Prevention is clean feed and a correct formula; treatment ranges from grass-and-exercise to metoclopramide and antibiotics.
Rabbit Necrobacillosis
Rabbit necrobacillosis is caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum, a bacterium common in nature and in healthy animals' tonsils and gut. It enters through damaged skin, mouth, or gut mucosa. Signs include eating trouble, drooling, oral nodules that necrose and smell, and abscesses; diagnosis is by lesions plus culture, distinguishing from staph, pseudomonas, and vesicular stomatitis. Prevention: smooth cages, no sharp objects, treat wounds with 5% iodine.
Rabbit Vesicular Stomatitis
The vesicular stomatitis virus causes rabbit vesicular stomatitis, living in sick rabbits' saliva and necrotic oral tissue; just-weaned kits are most at risk. Incubation is 5 to 7 days. Signs: red mucous membranes, vesicles on lips, tongue, and palate that become pustules then ulcers with heavy drooling; secondary bacteria cause foul necrosis. Mortality exceeds 50%. Differentiate from chemical or mold-induced stomatitis, which is not contagious.
How to Grow Forage for Rabbits While Keeping Nutrition and Cost Down
Feed is a major rabbit-farming cost, especially on concentrate-heavy diets. Growing your own forage cuts cost and assures quality. Sow on fertile, watered land; prep soil and basal fertilizer; sow in spring, April to May, or autumn, late September to mid-December; manage fields and pests; harvest at the right stage and store as hay or pelleted feed.
How to Prevent and Treat Rabbit Vesicular Stomatitis
Rabbit vesicular stomatitis has no vaccine or specific cure, so control relies on integrated biosecurity plus symptomatic care. Prevention: good husbandry, no moldy feed, smooth cages to protect teeth. Treatment: isolate, disinfect with 20% caustic soda or 0.5% peracetic acid, rinse mouth and apply iodine glycerin, oral sulfamethazine, and herbal supports.