1. How to prevent rabbits from catching a cold
1. Pet owners need to strengthen rabbit feeding and management to ensure the living environment of rabbits Clean and keep warm, put a warm blanket in the rabbit house, so that when the temperature suddenly drops or strong wind blows in, the rabbit can hide here in time to avoid being attacked.
2. In addition, keep the rabbit house dry and well ventilated.
3. When the rabbit is accidentally exposed to the rain, the owner must dry it as soon as possible, keep it warm in time, and feed it and drink some warm water; and the pet owner should pay attention to bathing the rabbit After that, you should help it dry the hair in time.
4. It is necessary to keep the rabbit warm during childbirth or after shearing it, because the rabbit is easy to catch cold at this time, especially at night, it needs to be kept warm.
Second, how to treat rabbit cold disease
After the pet owner finds that the rabbit has a cold, he can feed it Antibiotics are used for treatment. If there are no special antibiotics for rabbits, you can also use the antibiotics used when people have a cold, but reduce the dose to one-third, feed it with warm water and swallow it, and take more than one day. Feed it some warm water.
Treatment principles:
The main principles of treatment for a cold in rabbits are antipyretic and analgesic, expelling wind and cold, and preventing secondary infection.
1. Antipyretic and analgesic:
1) For simple colds, the rabbits can take aspirin tablets orally, 1 tablet per day for adult rabbits and half a tablet for young rabbits, twice in the morning and evening. For those with a runny nose, 1% ephedrine should be used three times a day for 3 days.
2) Oral administration of Analgin tablets, half a tablet each time, 2 times a day for 2 to 3 consecutive days; at the same time, intranasal drugs were used to instill the rabbit’s nose to relieve the symptoms of runny nose.
3) Oral administration of Forsythia detoxification tablets, one tablet once for adults, twice in the morning and evening. Those who have a fever should also inject streptomycin. The dosage is calculated according to body weight, 10 mg per kilogram, twice a day for three consecutive days.
4) Prepare 2 to 4 ml of compound aminopyrine injection and 200,000 international units of penicillin, and inject them intramuscularly after mixing them twice a day for 2 consecutive days to prevent inflammation.
5) Intramuscular injection of Bupleurum injection, 1 ml each time, 2 times a day for 2 consecutive days.
6) Intramuscular injection of 30% analpin 1-2ml, 2 times a day.
2. Dispelling wind and dispelling cold:
Use Fenggankang to treat: It is specially used for rabbits in the early stage of cold and flu. Each bottle of 1000ml is mixed with 1500~2000 catties of water and 700 catties of ingredients, and used for 3 to 5 days in a row; to prevent water mixing and doubling of ingredients. It can be treated with antibiotics with excellent effect.
We share the treatment and prevention methods for rabbit colds here, hoping to provide some advice to pet owners who need help, and wish sick rabbits an early date Rehab!
