That the rabbit correctly developed and remained healthy, it is necessary to know about what reasons cause the most widespread diseases of these animals.
Instruction
1. Rabbits irrespective of whether they are pets or are grown up in the agricultural purposes, have the general diseases which cause the same reasons. The main of them is a lack of due care for an animal, improper feeding, parasites and viral infections. The outbreaks of diseases which are capable to destroy the vast majority of individuals for short term are characteristic of a big livestock of rabbits.
2. The diseases of rabbits caused by improper feeding and leaving. Most often the abdominal distension occurs in these animals. In language of veterinarians it is called "timpaniye". Its emergence is caused by the different reasons, but all of them have the wrong leaving and feeding in the basis. The abdominal distension at a rabbit can happen during the translation of the pet from a dry feed on juicy. As a rule, it is the spring and summer period. In the winter of a timpaniye it can be caused by feeding to an animal of a forage subject to a fast sbrazhivaniye, the rotten and rerotting hay, frozen root crops.
3. Owing to overheating of the room, lack in it of ventilation, the wrong placement of cages on the street, at rabbits can happen thermal or sunstroke. In this state the animals refuse a forage, long not movably lie on a stomach, they have spasms and death is frequent.
4. The diseases of rabbits caused by parasites and an infection. One of widespread diseases – kolibakterioz. Most often it arises against the background of infection with colibacillus, but can be caused also by other bacteria of intestinal group. Infection happens to intake of food or water in which there are pathogenic microbes. At a kolibakterioza the animal refuses a forage or absorbs it in a small amount, inactively, promptly loses weight and in 3-7 days perishes.
5. Often there is at rabbits infectious rhinitis which represents inflammatory process in the upper airways of an animal. Micrococci, intestinal and sinegnoyny sticks and other bacteria are the cause of a disease. Such rhinitis at big density of animals is most dangerous. In these conditions it is enough to ache to one pet as soon he will infect all livestock. The weakened immunity owing to bad keeping of pets, existence of drafts, high concentration of dust in air, insanitary conditions is the cause of a disease.
6. One more often found disease – ear itch. It is caused by an ear tick. The animal who underwent introduction of this parasite becomes uneasy, often scratches ears, shakes the head. The disease is dangerous that in the started cases quite often there is a perforation of an eardrum and inflammatory process passes to a middle and inner ear why there is the pet's krivogolovost.