How should a sick rabbit be handled correctly after it is discovered?

(1) Detect promptly and handle as soon as possible.

Each rabbit should be examined 1-2 times every day, and any disease found should be dealt with immediately; delaying will lose the opportunity for treatment. Therefore, the earlier a diseased rabbit is treated, the better.

(2) Make a rough judgment and use medication as soon as possible

In addition to being able to make a clear judgment, targeted treatment measures can be taken for conditions such as sarcoptic mange, ringworm, and mastitis; for diseased rabbits with uncertain causes such as diarrhea, fever, and poor appetite, certain drug treatment should be given first. For diarrheal disease, oral or injectable antibacterial drugs can be given. In particular, diarrhea is more common in young rabbits; generally, giving antibacterial drugs early together with other drugs can achieve a relatively good cure rate, while Clostridium welchii diarrhea and other non-bacterial diarrhea are another matter. If a diseased rabbit does not have diarrhea and only shows poor appetite or stops eating, lung disease or systemic disease should mainly be considered; intramuscular injection of antibacterial drugs has a relatively significant effect, generally administered 2 times a day for 3-5 consecutive days. For highly contagious diseases such as sarcoptic mange and ringworm, if they are not newly introduced rabbits and obvious symptoms are found in individual cases in the original rabbit group, it indicates that the whole group has been infected; the whole group should be medicated to control the epidemic and reduce the incidence rate.

(3) Diseased dead rabbits should undergo pathological necropsy

Rabbits should be necropsied immediately after death. Check whether the lesions are mainly in the thoracic cavity or the abdominal cavity. Identify what pathological changes exist in the main areas such as the lungs, liver, kidneys, and intestines, and make a preliminary judgment based on this. Doing so facilitates the accumulation of knowledge and experience, and is very important for people engaged in the @#@248@#@ industry for a long time. If the mortality rate in a rabbit group suddenly increases, pathological necropsy can make a timely diagnosis, which is even more important for guiding disease prevention and control.

(4) Timely cull diseased and disabled rabbits

Rabbits that have lost treatment value and economic value should be culled in a timely manner. Such as severely rhinitis-affected rabbits, rabbits with repeated diarrhea, stunted rabbits, deformed rabbits, and rabbits that have lost reproductive capacity. Although some diseased rabbits can survive, the disease cannot be cured, so they should be culled as early as possible to avoid spreading a large amount of pathogenic bacteria. Some can be cured but their resistance declines, making them prone to reinfection.

(5) Correctly handle dead diseased rabbits

After necropsy, all dead diseased rabbits should be deeply buried or burned far away from the rabbit house to reduce the spread of pathogens. They must never be discarded at random, or fed to cats and dogs, etc.

(6) If the morbidity and mortality rate in a rabbit group suddenly rises, the cause cannot be identified, and there is no very good treatment method, fresh dead diseased rabbits should be sent to a qualified veterinary department for diagnosis, so as not to delay the opportunity and cause greater losses.