Bunny Medicine Cabinet

[SarahMelisse]

Does anyone have remedies or preventatives for fly strike? Maybe some sort of herb to plant near the rabbitry that would repel flies? I don't have a problem yet, but I also keep chickens which tend to attract a LOT of flies.

I have been worried about this myself. I have found maggots in my litter boxes about a month ago and I started freaking out. But after talking to some people on here and then finally getting ahold of a couple of my local vet.s I found out that you have nothing to worry about unless your rabbit has an open sore. So, as long as your rabbits don't have any open sores and their fur is dry, then you shouldn't have any problems with flystrike. But, to keep away flys is a pain. I have one of those fly strips that I hung up, and it does catch some of the flys but not all of them. I recently switched all my cages to stackable wire cages with pull-out trays which are a lot easier to keep clean, than the indoor plastic bottom cages that my buns were in before. And I haven't had a fly problem since I switched to the pull-out tray type cages. Just keep your cages very clean and you should be fine.

Thanks... That makes me feel a lot better! I'm a liitle hesitant to hang up fly strips because I ALSO keep bees (I have quite a few hobbies...lol) and I don't know if the bees would be attracted to the fly paper scent. But I do have the pull-out tray wire cages so it should be easy to keep things clean and tidy like you said.
Thanks again for the advice!