Thread: What is this rabbits problem?

Small young as rabbit, liver seems maybe large, full of white spots, looked like fat? Some kind of diesese? Choose not to feed to the dog.

Good choice, something definitely wrong with that liver, I would guess some sort of disease or parasite.

It is the worst I have ever seen. I hear of mexamatousus (spelling) but don't know what it looks like. It seems really far gone for such a young rabbit. It's a bit of a shame for me, my dog likes them, and it also would kind of ruin the rifle out the window game if no more rabbits. I'm sure others welcome bugs like this where there are real problems.

Looks like coccidiosis - which is a parasitic infection.

Pretty sure Myxomatosis doesn't effect young rabbits as they have some maternal immunity which causes antibodies against it.

Others may know more....


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Do we even have Mixy in NZ? I thought not but could be wrong.

Originally Posted by Shamus

Looks like coccidiosis - which is a parasitic infection.

I will Google that, thanks.
Young as in, not the hand size, a bit bigger, but I wouldn't call it 3/4 grown.

Originally Posted by Shamus

Looks like coccidiosis - which is a parasitic infection.

I think you are right. Google kind of says, once cooked it's ok, for humans, just not the liver.

I'd like to know if safe for dogs tho.... I will check more often, my dog had a small one whole the other day. He got sick but think he ate too much or too quick, I'm not worried about the dog, I care but he's fine, more for the future, I often class small as whole snacks, otherwise I normally check these things.

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Do we even have Mixy in NZ? I thought not but could be wrong.

Nope, Definitely no Myxomatosis in NZ. Interestingly there was a legal introduction in the 1952 but it failed through the lack of a vector. No rabbit fleas or mosquito's as there are in Aus.

Parasite, bury the fucker. Haven't come across it in my own bunny shooting before though, not too common I would guess.

I would say the rabbits main probem is someone shot it.

We had a calf get coccidiosis, it was pooping out pieces of intestine lining. Vet suggested putting it down but it was a pet (treatment wasn't too costly, but lab tests for other causes were). We had been feeding meal with a coccidiostat in it but with a run of wet weather the calves had stopped eating the meal "soup". Apparently different strains affect different animals, but usually hits around weaning. Most animals build up an immunity without being too affected.
I have found several dead young rabbits over the last few years, I might have to open one up and have a look next time. We had a group of 6 down the end of the drive a few weeks ago that seem to be down to 1 or 2 now.

Definitely Coccidiois, quite common in younger rabbits during summer, in bad cases it will kill the rabbit, shot heaps like it over the years.