It is impossible to call rabbits especially choosy animals, but care for them can sometimes be insufficient. Mistakes in selection of a forage, hardly noticeable holes in a cage, cold, an inconvenient floor are capable to lead to a disease of animals.
Diseases of rabbits like myxomatosis to cure an eymerioz not so easily. But if the disease is not infectious, treatment will be much simpler. The attentive relation to a condition of pets allows to notice disturbing symptoms in time. The timely initiation of treatment helps to prevent development of a disease – it is more convenient, than to spend then time and forces on care for a sick animal.
In many health of rabbits depends on their diet. Correctly picked up forage helps to avoid problems with digestion. The nutrition has to be not only good, but also various. At young animals at a lack of useful substances of food the rickets can develop, and at deficiency of rough forages the stomach cannot fully work.
If the rabbit because of a low-quality forage had a diarrhea, it is transferred to a diet. It is necessary to feed an animal with hay, crackers, every day within seven days to it allow to drink 5 ml of curdled milk. If at a rabbit a lock, dissolve in water depletive – the Carlsbad salt. In day the adult animals should give 5 g of the medicine dissolved in warm water, young – 3 g.
Overcooling is very harmful to rabbits. From dampness in cages or drafts various diseases of respiratory organs can develop – from cold to pneumonia. Non-infectious rhinitis can be determined by character and color of allocations – they are serous or serous and purulent. It is possible to treat rhinitis, digging in in nostrils to a rabbit 3-5 drops of solution of Furacilin or penicillin. The animal should provide good contents, a warm, dry, clean cage.
The laying in rabbit cages should be changed regularly, otherwise at them soles can inflame. Such disease is called pododermatit. Other reason of its emergence – an inconvenient grid on a floor of cages. Paws of the rabbits affected with such disease are thickened from below, when pressing liquid pus can be emitted for this place. Rabbits should provide a convenient floor, to scavenge more often, and to wash paws with solution of Furacilin or penicillin.