OK. I came home yesterday to find my favorite doe dead. Her lips and ears were blue. I hadn't noticed any off behavior or appearance before her death. She seemed to be eating less but it has been very hot and dry here.
This morning I went out to the bunny shed and one of the young ones had snot coming out of his nose and was sneezing. He looks poorly too. His coat is rough and he sounds bad. I held my ear to his chest. I know this is not good. I put him in my deceased doe's hutch. It's separate from the shed. I don't have much hope for him.
I had heard him sneeze a few times over the last couple of days but he looked all right, and I attributed it to it not having rained here in two weeks and it being so ungodly HOT.
So anyway I isolated sickie and I am going to give the cages a good scrub with bleach solution. I'm going to try to get more ventilation into the shed but I am not really sure of what else to do. I'm putting frozen bottles in the cages and hutches but I don't have a fancy set up or a lot of rabbits, so I am rather limited in options. I'm hoping if I can relive the heat stress, then anyone teetering on the edge of illness will get better.
I don't know if I am really asking anything. My AC quit this weekend, so I'm feeling their pain with this heat. I just hope this weather breaks, it rains and no one else gets sick.
This morning I went out to the bunny shed and one of the young ones had snot coming out of his nose and was sneezing. He looks poorly too. His coat is rough and he sounds bad. I held my ear to his chest. I know this is not good. I put him in my deceased doe's hutch. It's separate from the shed. I don't have much hope for him.
I had heard him sneeze a few times over the last couple of days but he looked all right, and I attributed it to it not having rained here in two weeks and it being so ungodly HOT.
So anyway I isolated sickie and I am going to give the cages a good scrub with bleach solution. I'm going to try to get more ventilation into the shed but I am not really sure of what else to do. I'm putting frozen bottles in the cages and hutches but I don't have a fancy set up or a lot of rabbits, so I am rather limited in options. I'm hoping if I can relive the heat stress, then anyone teetering on the edge of illness will get better.
I don't know if I am really asking anything. My AC quit this weekend, so I'm feeling their pain with this heat. I just hope this weather breaks, it rains and no one else gets sick.
