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What to Do When a Rabbit Has Diarrhea
Rabbit diarrhea is common and can turn critical fast, especially in weanlings that have lost maternal antibodies. Treat infections with rabbit-safe antibiotics and keep the cage clean and dry; prevent it with safe food, gradual feed changes and isolation of sick rabbits.
Preventing and Controlling Rabbit Colibacillosis
Rabbit colibacillosis (mucoid enteritis), caused by Escherichia coli, strikes weanling rabbits hardest with high death rates from watery, jelly-like diarrhea and dehydration. Prevention hinges on steady high-fiber feeding, clean dry housing, insect and rodent control, and feed-additive or vaccine prophylaxis.
Grasses and Plants Rabbits Must Not Eat
Not every grass suits a rabbit; many wild plants are toxic and can kill. Always avoid groundsel, potato and tomato vines, larkspur, castor bean, aconite, belladonna, datura, water hemlock, and others; some are toxic only when flowering, sprouting, or to lactating does. Safe staples are alfalfa (young and nursing), timothy, and Bermuda grass.
Rabbit Growth, Development and Molting Traits
Rabbits grow fast and convert feed efficiently early in life, especially as kits. A kit is born about 50 g, doubles by one week and reaches 40% of adult weight by eight weeks, with feed conversion best (2:1) at three weeks. They molt twice by age (around 30–100 and 130–190 days) and seasonally each spring and autumn, when extra nutrition helps.