How to prevent and treat emaciation disease in wild rabbits? Prevention and control measures that farmers must know
Young rabbits within 3 months of age are more prone to a kind of "emaciation disease". Its symptoms are reduced appetite in the sick rabbits, dull or discolored hair coat, walking with an arched back, pale ocular conjunctiva, gradual emaciation, and finally death from exhaustion with skin clinging to bones. The sick rabbits that survive show stunted development and lose their breeding value.
The main causes of emaciation disease include the following situations: severe degeneration of breeding wild rabbits; poor feed quality; parasitic diseases; certain infectious diseases; certain internal diseases. The comprehensive prevention and control measures are as follows:
1. Strengthen feeding management, pay attention to environmental hygiene, and regularly disinfect rabbit cages and rabbit houses. Raise rabbits in groups according to age, sex, body weight, and strength. The daily ration should be properly formulated to avoid a single nutritional composition in the feed. It is strictly forbidden to feed moldy, toxic, frozen, or dew-covered feed and forage.
2. Establish pedigree files for breeding rabbits. Set up separate breeding cards for male and female rabbits, keep records of mating and kindling, make the blood relationships of the rabbit flock clear, and avoid inbreeding, early mating, and continuous blood mating. For nursing young rabbits, start supplementary feeding from 20 days of age, and do a good job in the transition process from weaning to eating feed.
3. Deworm on time. After young rabbits are weaned, chlorobenzoguanidine and compound dimetridazole can be added to the feed to prevent coccidiosis. The dosage of chlorobenzoguanidine should be controlled at 15 mg per small rabbit per day, or 300 mg added per kilogram of feed, fed continuously for 4~5 days; the dosage of dimetridazole is 1 tablet per small rabbit per day, fed continuously for 7 days, stop the drug for 3 days, then feed for another 7 days; for rabbit mange, ivermectin can be injected subcutaneously at 0.2 mL per kilogram of body weight, repeated once every 7~10 days. For young rabbits around 2 months of age, ivermectin powder can be used, mixed into the feed at 0.1 g per kilogram of body weight and fed to the rabbits once, to prevent digestive tract parasitic diseases.
4. Handling after recovery from chronic diseases in rabbits. For some chronic infectious diseases of wild rabbits, after treatment, if the wild rabbits are emaciated and their growth is stunted, appropriate amounts of the Chinese herbal medicines E Ma Huang, Dujiao Jin, Ebushicao, and Zibei Jinniu can be selected and decocted in water for oral feeding. Fresh rabbit blood can also be mixed into the feed, 5~10 mL each time, or blood collected from healthy rabbits can be used for intramuscular injection, 2~3 mL each time, once daily, for 3~5 consecutive days.