It is important for every person who is engaged in breeding rabbits to know many important aspects of this matter. It is also necessary to know about all diseases, as well as about the methods of their treatment. Some diseases can sneak up to your animals very unexpectedly, even if your rabbits live in favorable conditions, you cannot maintain their health in perfect condition.
A disease such as mixomatosis is one of the most terrible and dangerous for the animal, as this disease is transmitted through insects that suck blood. It is quite difficult and almost impossible from this method of rabbit disease.
All the danger and complexity of these diseases is such, because these diseases are extremely difficult to cure, and in some cases it is almost impossible. For example, mixomatosis is the disease whose treatment has not yet been found.
The last solution to this problem is the euthangage of the rabbit with such incomprehensible symptoms. As a rule, in order to avoid serious and incurable diseases, it is necessary to perform the necessary vaccinations from a very early age. Only using the prevention of diseases can you save your animal.
Mixatosis symptoms and its treatment
Along with other serious and dangerous diseases, such a disease as mixtases can affect the animal, regardless of its age, breed. However, some breeds are known to medicine, which this virus cannot plunge.
As a rule, insects and parasites that suck blood can be carriers of the virus. As well as carnivorous birds, rodents, as well as rabbits that have already been ill with this disease. Due to the fact that many diseases have a quick progression, and especially at a time as autumn and summer, it is important to carefully monitor the suspicious symptoms of your animals. As soon as you notice such phenomena, you need to contact specialists who will give you the right advice and solve the problem of your animal.
Symptoms of mixomatosis in rabbits
This disease has certain signs by which you can easily determine the presence of the disease, namely:
One of the most obvious signs of the disease is the presence of eye edema in a rabbit, as well as inflammation of the eyelids, discharge from the eyes appears;
parts of the head (nose, lips, ears) begin to swell;
Fibrous nodules occur in the front paws, nose and ears;
inflammation of the external genitalia occurs;
an increase in temperature over 40 degrees begins, but this is not a mandatory symptom;
The animal begins to bald;
A healthy appetite disappears in the animal;
The reactions of the animal are very slow;
In difficult cases, the ears of the rabbit can fall, after which a coma may occur.
As a rule, mixtases have a fairly rapid course, and you can pay attention only to the swelling of the eyes and the emerging swelling of the genital organs, breasts and heads. After you notice these symptoms, then the rabbit can begin lethargy, which will lead to the death of the animal.
This virus has several types, one of the most terrible varieties is the so -called California strain, since in almost all cases of manifestation of this type of disease, a fatal outcome was observed.
Another type – Nottingham strain, as well as a neuromyxoma, has more widespread in Europe, but still they are cured, even with special difficulty. Therefore, if your animal fell ill with mixtases, its treatment can be carried out, but it is important to contact specialists in time. As well as an important condition for treatment is the limitation of the animal from communication with other animals.
It is important to preserve in the room where the rabbit is located, room temperature, which allows you to slow down the development of the disease, and only under such conditions you can conduct special injections that will act correctly and treat. It is important to maintain the correct diet of your rabbit, without looking at the fact that your animal refuses nutrition. And the eyes that flow, must be wiped with cotton wool, which is saturated with strong tea.
In the event that the disease cannot be cured or the treatment is not amenable to treatment, the animal must be reduced.
The first signs of the disease and the method of treatment
Another difficult treatment is the problem with the pathogen of the disease of coccidiosis. Chemicals are powerless before this disease, since the virus can be destroyed only at a temperature of more than 100 degrees. A great predisposition to this disease has very young rabbits, in which age is from a month to four. The pathogens of this disease come out of the sick animal with Kal, and continue to live and move about a week.
Each disease has its own symptoms, or rather those phenomena from which the disease begins. This disease has its own symptoms, namely:
yellowing of the skin of a rabbit;
weight loss and disappearance of appetite;
diarrhea;
General weakness.
In young rabbits, the body is not able to fight the disease, so often young rabbits die. And those animals, whose body was able to cope with the disease, remain carriers of the disease, it is because of this that the overheating rabbits is best removed from the rest of the herd.
This disease does not apply to people, so the meat of rabbits that are ill are suitable for eating. Therefore, it is necessary to try to prevent the disease than to treat it.
Preventive measures
The prevention of diseases is more important than their treatment, so everything is possible to do everything to prevent your animal’s disease. In order for your rabbit not to get coccidiosis, you need:
Process the cells of the rabbits with a special floor that will not keep the feces inside the cell;
It is important to ensure that the feces do not fall into the nutrition of animals;
carry out cell disinfection;
take care that the rabbits have dry in the cage;
as little as possible to food bran, legumes and other herbs.
The danger of viral hemorrhagic disease
Each disease to rabbits sneaks unnoticed, since you will not even notice how your rabbit gets a terrible disease. The cause of such an unexpected disease of the animal is such a hemorrhagic disease, in medicine, known as VGBK, which causes irreversible processes in the body of the rabbit, namely the diathesis of the liver, lungs and other organs of the animal.
Before the onset of death in rabbits, yellow or green currents from the nose may appear. The virus can be transmitted through improper feed, clothes or skin of sick animals. Initially, adult rabbits lend themselves to the disease, and after – young.
First of all, this disease is dangerous because it is stable at a temperature of -50 degrees, and does not miss its indicators and qualities for five years. The ripening of the virus in the body of the animal occurs for four days, and death occurs even after two hours.
Unfortunately, modern medicine has not yet invented the treatment of this disease. All that you can do for your animal is to vaccinate it in advance.
Ear and eye area
Increasingly, diseases in the ears in rabbits began to occur, often the cause of the disease is an auricle. The disease can be detected simply by decisive moments, namely, the rabbit begins to shake his head very much, constantly and very actively scratches his ears, while the rabbit can independently comb the ears before baldness and the appearance of bruising.
At the first symptoms that you have seen, you must seek help from specialists. After all, the ear tick can lead to the development of a more unpleasant disease, like otitis media. Experienced experts can prescribe the correct treatment using drugs such as “Selamectin”, as well as “Invermectin”. Only these drugs can cure the ear tick.
It is important to clean the ears very well before the use of drugs. In the event that your rabbit begins to watery, then this can be a manifestation of a more dangerous disease as mixed, but at the same time, this can be a less dangerous disease than conjunctivitis.