How to prevent and treat rabbit salmonellosis? These methods you need to know

Caused by Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella enteritidis, it mainly affects pregnant female rabbits, characterized by septicemia, acute death, diarrhea and abortion, and mainly affects female rabbits more than 25 days pregnant.

Symptoms: the incubation period is 1 to 3 days; acute cases die suddenly without showing any symptoms; most sick rabbits have diarrhea, elevated body temperature, listlessness, complete loss of appetite, increased thirst, and emaciation; female rabbits discharge viscous, purulent secretions from the vagina.

Lesions: the liver shows diffuse or scattered yellow pinpoint-sized necrotic foci, the gallbladder is enlarged and filled with bile, the spleen is enlarged 1 to 3 times, the large intestine is filled with viscous feces, and the intestinal wall becomes thin.

Prevention and treatment: strengthen feeding management, enhance the resistance of female rabbits, eliminate stress factors that trigger the disease, and promptly cull severely ill rabbits; for milder cases, antibiotics or antibacterial drugs can be used for treatment.

Drug treatment (1) Streptomycin 30,000 to 50,000 units/kg body weight by intramuscular injection, twice a day, for 3 consecutive days. (2) Sulfadimidine 100 to 200 mg/kg body weight orally, once a day, for 3 to 5 consecutive days.