Since we have successfully managed to breed the rabbits we have had quite a number of deaths amoungst the young ones. I took one that had just died to the vet for an autopsy. We didn't want to start giving vaccinations and wormers just in case so we thought it was worth the cost of finding out what it actually was. It was not expensive in the end anyway. It turns out to have been enterotoxemia for which there is a vaccine. Although you sometimes see diarrhoea with this, and we haven't, the vet said they often die so quickly it doesn't have a chance to start.
Unfortunately one died in Bernardette's latest litter after I got the vaccine but before I had injected them. I found it when I went to do the injections this morning in fact. Typically we have seen several in a litter die once it starts and the vaccine takes a few days to take effect. Darn!
Ginger's litter were all done, so hopefully they will be ok. They all need to be redone in about a month, then annually. Quite a lot of injections! We have done some of the lambs too although there are 2 we cannot catch.
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