First Aid for rabbits
Wormers-
-Piperazine wormer is recommended once every three months. It
is a 17% solution and shoud be given at 4 drops per pound of rabbit by mouth.
-Ivomec 1% cattle wormer is used for treatment of fur mites and
many internal paracites. Use 1/10cc per pound of body weight. Also given once every 3 months.
Diarrhea-
Biosol-also called Neomycin Sulfate or Dry Tail is used to combat
infectious mucoid enteritis or diarhea.
Weepy eyes-
Terramycin ointment is used when your rabbit has conjunctivitis
or pink eye.
Bleeding from the toenails-
Kwik-Stop-If a toe nail is cut to short you must stop the bleeding
with Kwik-Stop please have this on hand at all times as a rabbit can bleed to death if the bleeding is not stopped right away.
Respiratory Infections-
LA200- is a very good broad spectrum Antibiotic. Be careful with
antibiotics as they can effect the "good bacteria" in the rabbits system and can cause diarrhea.
Good Bacteria-
ProBois or BeneBac-is a good thing to keep on hand to help keep
the beneficial bacteria florishing and keep things like diarrhea away.
Furblock-
Petromalt or Papaya is good to keep on hand for prevention of
furblock. If you feed Papaya as a treat once or twice a week you shouldn't have trouble with this.
