general health questions

[MATH]

I read a lot of the posts on this website. I did not want to interfere with other posts, so here is my new one...

Question 1) How often do you clean scent glands? Are they easy to see?

Question 2) How do you know if food is moldy. I feed Kaytee Timothy Complete pellets, (no Oxbow at my pet store). I have never had a problem, but I may come across one some day. Will it smell a certain way? Will I be able to see it?

 

[Maureen Las]

This might help with the scent gland question


http://www.rabbitsonline.net/view_topic.php?id=28943&forum_id=17

and here is the library links to moldy food or mycotoxins

http://www.rabbitsonline.net/view_topic.php?id=11895&forum_id=10

 

[tonyshuman]

I wouldn't feed anything that smelled moldy or different from normal. I don't think it's very easy to smell the mold of mycotoxins in food. I've only heard of it being discovered after the fact, after bad things happened.

I do scent glands for my bunnies and the shelter bunnies once a month. It's not 100% necessary to do, and some bunnies never have them cleaned. They can get impacted and full of gunk, but it's pretty rare. I do it just because I think they get stinky otherwise, and the shelter has lots of bunnies in a small space and I don't like stink!