I. Symptoms of mastitis in female rabbits
The female rabbit’s breasts are red and swollen, she refuses to breastfeed the young, and her body temperature rises high. The symptoms of rabbit mastitis vary according to the severity of the disease, and are mainly divided into three categories: common mastitis, mastitis, and defective mastitis.
1. Common symptoms of common mastitis include red and swollen breasts, black nipples, rough hair, and a burning sensation when you touch the skin of the sick rabbit. At this time, the sick rabbit can still breastfeed normally. time is significantly shortened.
2. Mastitis is mainly caused by the invasion of purulent bacteria into the breast. Soon after the onset of the disease, a black bean-sized lump can be felt under the skin around the udder. The female rabbit’s skin appears normal at first, but as the disease progresses, the skin gradually darkens and an abscess forms. Eventually, the abscess bursts and oozes pus, which usually heals on its own.
3. In the early stage of the onset of defective mastitis, the breasts are only red and swollen, and as the disease progresses, the breasts gradually turn purple-black and rapidly spread to the entire abdomen. Sick rabbits are lethargic, their body temperature rises, and they no longer exercise or eat. This type of mastitis is the most serious and has the highest mortality rate. Most of the sick rabbits die within 4 to 6 days of the onset of the disease.
Second, prevention and control measures of mastitis in female rabbits
Keep the rabbit cage and farrowing box clean And regularly sterilize; strengthen feeding management before the female rabbit gives birth, and appropriately reduce the feeding amount of concentrated feed to prevent excessive milk secretion after the female rabbit gives birth. The specific preventive measures are as follows:
1. For common mastitis. In the early stage of the female rabbit’s illness, the owner helped her to squeeze out the milk accumulated in her breasts, cleaned her breasts, and then pressed the water glue of the woodworking frying lake into powder and mixed it with vinegar until it became a paste and spread evenly on the On the breast of the sick rabbit, apply it once a day for 2 to 3 days to cure.
2. In the early stage of mastitis in female rabbits, the owner can apply cold compress to her breast, and in the middle and late stage, use a hot towel for hot compress. Then mixed intramuscular injection of 800,000 units of penicillin, 10mL of Shikunjing injection and 1mL of dexamethasone, twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, for 3 consecutive days, the symptoms of the sick rabbits disappeared and recovered.
3. In case of defective mastitis, the owner can locally inject the above medicines into the sick rabbit, and apply fish oil ointment to the wound. For severe symptoms, the abscess should be incised and the pus and blood should be cleaned up. After the treatment, the incision should be wiped clean with sterile gauze and sprinkled with anti-inflammatory powder. At the same time, systemic treatment, such as injection of antibiotics, was performed on the sick rabbits.
This is the introduction to the prevention and treatment of mastitis in female rabbits. I hope that the owner will pay more attention to the prevention of mastitis in female rabbits, especially lactating mothers. rabbit.
