i need people to look at this who had experience with worms

[patches2593]

my rabbit patches is a strictly indoor rabbit and only eats greens from grocery store. he only stays downstairs and runs around down there. if your rabbit had worms, can you post where he lives (outside/indoor), if he plays outside, eats stuff from outside, ETC.


I'm just trying to look at the facts and prevent ways from my bunny from getting these worms that everyone's posting about.

please help!!!!! ray: :big wink: :shock: :?

 

[patches2593]

also, were the worms in the poop noticeable, or did you really have to look?

 

[Watermelons]

A strictly indoor bunny can still get worms.
Even if you dont see anything in their poop, stuff can still be inside them. It is good practice to deworm your animals on a regular basis even if that means only 2-4x per year.

 

[ZRabbits]

Watermelons wrote:

A strictly indoor bunny can still get worms.
Even if you dont see anything in their poop, stuff can still be inside them. It is good practice to deworm your animals on a regular basis even if that means only 2-4x per year.

My two boys, Dobby and Kreacher will be going for their one year visit, and Dr. Joe does fecal testing (at 4 months they were CLEAN). I'll have to ask him. Don't get me wrong, it is a good practice but I just hate to have any resistance to any medicne when it's really needed.

K

 

[patches2593]

how do they do a fecal testing? how much is it for you zrabbits?

"is good practice to deworm your animals on a regular basis even if that means only 2-4x per year" (says watermelons.)

how do you deworm them on a regular basis?

 

[patches2593]

zrabbits your bunny is too cute!!

 

[ZRabbits]

patches2593 wrote:

how do they do a fecal testing? how much is it for you zrabbits?

"is good practice to deworm your animals on a regular basis even if that means only 2-4x per year" (says watermelons.)

how do you deworm them on a regular basis?

For a Well Visit or even when they are sick, I usually bring a baggie. I try to get the most fresh poop. Just like I do my dog. It costs about 12 dollars, which was in the initial Wellvisit(they have a lab there they can do it). Dr. Joe does a thorough job. So this is definitely something I will bring up to him when I go for their Yearly check up.

Thanks Patches for bringing this question to the forum.

K

 

[Watermelons]

If you will do fecal testing regularly, and it comes up cleen then you can definatly pass up doing the deworming. I dont find the animals build up an immunity to dewormer redily like they do with antibiotics since the dewormer is targeted at things inside the bunny, not the bunny itself, and typically once theyve been properly dewormed its a whole new "batch" of badness in there if its needed again, not usually relatives of what they had before.

I used to use powdered panacur and mix it with water and high cal supplement and syringe them their dose. I have recently found alfalfa based fenbendazole pellets for horses, and weight out their proper dose now and they just crunch a few pellets and done. I deworm once or twice in the winter, and they get monthly fenbendazole and revolution in the summer when they go outside all day.

They can still get worms from eating supermarket fruits and veggies, you may bring them in the house somehow on yourself or on food, its very easy to transfer icky stuff.

 

[ZRabbits]

Watermelons wrote:

If you will do fecal testing regularly, and it comes up cleen then you can definatly pass up doing the deworming. I dont find the animals build up an immunity to dewormer redily like they do with antibiotics since the dewormer is targeted at things inside the bunny, not the bunny itself, and typically once theyve been properly dewormed its a whole new "batch" of badness in there if its needed again, not usually relatives of what they had before.

I used to use powdered panacur and mix it with water and high cal supplement and syringe them their dose. I have recently found alfalfa based fenbendazole pellets for horses, and weight out their proper dose now and they just crunch a few pellets and done. I deworm once or twice in the winter, and they get monthly fenbendazole and revolution in the summer when they go outside all day.

They can still get worms from eating supermarket fruits and veggies, you may bring them in the house somehow on yourself or on food, its very easy to transfer icky stuff.

My thought was that sometimes you don't get all of them at once and the worms inside your bunny starts to get a resistance. That's what I was in fear of. I guess I'm thinking more in terms of goats than bunnies.lol Something else to ask Dr. Joe. Also about the garden as well. Haven't brought any icky stuff in yet. Want to make sure I don't now. And supermarket veggies, washed thoroughly. Always has, but can't wait till the garden is going so I can stop that too.

K

 

[Watermelons]

Haha Im still skeptical that washing will take EVERYTHING off, eggs have it built into them to stick to stuff really well and be microscopic... be it my garden or the super market. But regardless its still nice to either deworm regularly or run regular fecal tests.

 

[ArdenBunny]

Watermelons wrote:

Haha Im still skeptical that washing will take EVERYTHING off, eggs have it built into them to stick to stuff really well and be microscopic... be it my garden or the super market. But regardless its still nice to either deworm regularly or run regular fecal tests.

:yeahthat:



Tapeworms can't be fixed withover the counterdewormers (well...don't know about for rabbits, but for dog's they can't). So if it is tapeworms that means if you don't get rid of the fleas then the tapeworms will eventually come back.

Also, if your rabbit gets tapeworms then watch your dogs, because if the dog eats rabbit poop infected with tapeworms the dog will get them, too! Same with other kinds of worms. The tapeworm life cycle is two weeks, I think. So that means if your rabbit or dog has them it could take a week or so for them to actually show up.

I don't have any experience with other kinds of worms (thank goodness!).

 

[patches2593]

ZRabbits wrote:

For a Well Visit or even when they are sick, I usually bring a baggie. I try to get the most fresh poop. Just like I do my dog. It costs about 12 dollars, which was in the initial Wellvisit (they have a lab there they can do it). Dr. Joe does a thorough job. So this is definitely something I will bring up to him when I go for their Yearly check up.

Thanks Patches for bringing this question to the forum.

K

so do you call the vet and make an appointment for the fecal testing, then bring in the bag of fresh bunny poop, and then they test it and give you the results and then you do the usual pay which is $12 for you? is that right? also, how often do you do this?

i think i might do this testing for my bunny just to be safe

 

[Bunnylova4eva]

Depends, some vets might want to see the bunny but I think if they've seen the bunny at all recently they'd probably be willing just to have to drop off the sample for them to test.

 

[ZRabbits]

Mia is right. Dr. Joe likes to see the bunny so that he can examine. I always, like with my dog, bring a stool sample. He then tests it while we are there and if there is an issue, he can address immediately. This is how our Vet works. Maybe others are different and will just do fecal tests.

I plan on yearly check ups just to make sure the bunny, not just worms, but is healthy teeth wise, nails, ears, eyes, etc. Well Visits aren't really expensive with Dr. Joe so I like to do this for my peace of mind. Making sure I have a full history of my bunnies and how they are growing and maturing.

Dobby and Kreacher will be going in soon, then Willard, then the babies. It's a good practice, if you have a good Rabbit Savvy Vet. And it also helps the rabbit with stress issues. They knows it's a normal thing to go to the Vets office where those strange odors are. lol Plus they learn to be handled by different people.

K