Common causes of miscarriage in female rabbits

Some common causes of abortion in rabbits

1. Poor feed for pregnant rabbits . If the pregnant rabbit accidentally eats moldy or rotten feed, or the pregnant rabbit accidentally eats some toxic feed, or the rabbit eats frozen feed in winter. These conditions may seriously affect the health of the pregnant rabbit and the normal growth and development of the fetus, and eventually lead to the abortion of the pregnant rabbit.

2. Pregnant rabbits lack nutrition. There may be no problem with the quality of pregnant rabbits, but if the feed eaten by female rabbits lacks a certain nutrient element for a long time, such as lack of any nutrient such as protein, minerals, vitamins, etc., it is easy to cause the fetus to stagnate, causing the female rabbit to stagnate. abortion.

3. Reproductive disorders. If the female rabbit itself suffers from serious diseases, such as genital diseases such as rabbit syphilis, malignant vaginitis or metritis, even if the female rabbit is successfully pregnant, it will be easy to miscarry.

4. The female rabbit gets sick after being pregnant. If a pregnant female rabbit suffers from some parasitic diseases or other diseases that seriously endanger the health of the rabbit, it may cause the rabbit to miscarry, and sometimes even cause the rabbit to give birth to stillbirth or deformed fetus.

5. Vaccine injection For rabbits, injection of vaccine is a strong stimulus, which will inevitably lead to stress response . Therefore, vaccinating pregnant female rabbits often results in miscarriage.

6. Improper medication for female rabbits. After the pregnant rabbit is sick, the owner accidentally feeds the rabbit with diuretics, uterine contraction drugs or some other strong drugs, which may easily lead to the abortion of the pregnant rabbit.

7. Inbreeding of rabbits. The inbreeding of rabbits will not only easily lead to the decline of the physique of the offspring, but also cause the female rabbit to terminate the pregnancy or miscarriage in severe cases.

8. Feeling the tire is rude. If the owner is not skilled in touching the fetus, the fetus touching is too rude or the embryo is kneaded for a long time, which will cause damage to the fetus, it will easily lead to the miscarriage of the female rabbit.

9. Vaccine the pregnant rabbits. Vaccinating rabbits during pregnancy can easily trigger a stress response in rabbits and cause miscarriage.

10. Pregnant rabbits were greatly frightened. When a pregnant rabbit is frightened, it will abort due to running around, bruising the abdomen or stressing.

The above are some common causes of rabbit miscarriage that we have summarized. We hope that the owner can provide better care and nursing for pregnant rabbits, and try to avoid the above situations. , reduce the risk of miscarriage in pregnant rabbits.

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