pets.net has learned that the lack of milk feeding in newborn rabbits mostly occurs in 23-day-old rabbits born to mother rabbits with unbalanced nutrition during pregnancy, especially in the late pregnancy. , often within a litter, with partial or total onset of the disease.

Symptoms

Rabbits suddenly stopped sucking, their skin was cool and dark, their whole body was limp, some died quickly, and some bursts Sexual convulsions, and finally died in a coma. No abnormal changes were found in autopsy; no pathogenic bacteria were found in blood, liver and spleen smears. The course of the disease is generally 23 hours, and if not treated in time, almost 100% die prematurely.

Treatment

In the beginning, due to lack of understanding of the disease, antibiotics, sulfonamides, and vitamin B-complex inotropes were used to treat them, all of which were ineffective. Later, switching to glucose treatment achieved better results. The specific method is to use a bicycle valve core latex tube of 2 cm to cover the mouth of the syringe. After absorbing the 25% glucose solution, insert the latex tube into the mouth of the rabbits, slowly push the piston, and give each rabbit 12 ml; For young rabbits who cannot swallow, intraperitoneally inject 56 ml of 5% 10% glucose solution. After 1520 minutes, the skin temperature of the young rabbit recovered, the convulsions stopped, and after 2025 minutes, it would suck the milk, squeak, and the belly quickly rounded and fell asleep safely. In order to consolidate the curative effect, the treatment should be repeated after 46 hours. , and supplemented with glucose solution for 3 consecutive days, twice a day. In summary, the disease may be caused by hypoglycemia

Prevention

Practice has proved that during pregnancy, especially in the later stage of pregnancy, in addition to feeding green feed 3 times a day, supplementary feeding corn, barley and other high-carbohydrate concentrates 100 grams and an appropriate amount of salt and bone meal, when the weather is good, let out the sun. and exercise. After giving birth, feeding female rabbits with 8% sugar solution and letting them drink freely can effectively prevent the occurrence of the disease.