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Why do rabbits lose hair in spring and how to prevent them

2022-05-25 / 667 Read

    It's spring again. Warblers and grass grow everywhere, birds sing and flowers fragrant, the wind is warm and the sun is shining, the spring breeze sits on the mat, the catkins outside the window are light, and the rabbit fur is flying around the house... The two living treasures in the family are in the molting period, and they are still running around, not even a minute. live. Especially love to rub on my body, as if my clothes are used as a fully automatic hair suction device.

    Then, why do rabbits shed hair in spring? In fact, rabbits will shed hair from time to time, just like people lose their hair, which is a normal physiological phenomenon. The more concentrated and large area is the age-related molting of rabbits and the seasonal molting of rabbits.

    What is bunny age moulting?     Taking domestic rabbits as an example, the first two times that rabbits experience after birth are age-related molting, the first time is 1~3 months old, the second time is 4~6 months old , the rabbit was already an adult at that time.

    What is Bunny Seasonal Moult?    Tutu molts four times a year seasonally, in order to adapt to changes in temperature, especially in spring and autumn. In spring (around March to April), they take off their winter clothes and put on summer clothes with better air permeability; in autumn (around September to October), they will put on thick fleece clothes to prevent their bodies from getting cold. So now that spring is here, the bunnies are starting to shed their fur for the coming summer.

   Anecdotes about Tutu Moulting       The natural landscape in summer and winter is very different. In order to adapt to the life here, the snow rabbit even changes its color when it molts: in summer, it is soil gray, which is equivalent to a camouflage uniform, which is integrated with the grass and bushes; Protect yourself in the snow.     In addition to the above, if the rabbit has partial or large area hair loss, it may be sick and belong to pathological hair loss.