Oxbow Critical Care for herbivores

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For example, your rabbit might not be eating because of a blockage in their stomach or digestive tract.

Always make sure that there is enough drinking water available and be sure to mix the Critical Care substance freshly each day. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Analgesia is required for all sick rabbits based on the presumption that the underlying diagnosis may be painful. The idea is simply to mix the Oxbow Critical Care formula with water to make a mixture with pudding-like consistency.

If the patient is unwilling to sit still, then you can use a towel to wrap them in the ‘bunny burrito’, which makes them easier to handle, supports their legs and backs and can make them feel calmer. During periods of negative energy balance, β-oxidation of free fatty acids in the liver increases, which causes ketone body production and metabolic acidosis. If there is any decrease or reduction in the rabbit's appetite for any reason, then veterinary advice should be sought immediately. Other palatable foods include freshly picked grass, dandelions, spring greens, cabbage, kale, carrots or apple. For a bunny with a dental problem, hard grass and hay and sometimes also pellets can be painful to chew.

It is important to note that most biochemical parameters of rabbits can be measured from plasma or serum. Many of the factors that need to be considered when delivering critical care are similar to those in other species; however, the specific issues relating to both acute and chronic stress and the gastrointestinal system are more species specific.Both bedding hay and grass hay, and additionally alfalfa, can be kept in the hospital, as well as several different options for syringe feeding ( Pollock, 2011) ( Table 1 and Figure 2). There are many other tissues associated with the gut, and various factors such as pH levels that contribute and assist in digestion; however, it is beyond the scope of this article to go into extensive detail (see Blas and Wiseman, 2010). Now he's 10,5 years old and have been living mainly on critical care for a year because he has lost some teeth and can not chew hay (which he never liked much anyway so that doesn't bother him). Seems like the rabbit has had yesterday some taraxacum leaf and some harder strands of grass, which he started to eat then shook his head and spit it out.

Considerations include the level of debilitation of the rabbit, the possibility and if surgery is present, and especially the temperament of the rabbit, as tube feeding can be less stressful than syringe feeding in some cases. Critical care is aimed at avoiding those situations and treating, as well as treating the cause of the life threatening illness.

Any medications should always be given on veterinary advice and syringe feeding should only be initiated once a blockage has been ruled out. Weekend deliveries will generally be shipped by DPD, and if your preferred courier option has already departed for the day, we'll use the next available courier to prevent delay, unless you expressly ask us not to use an alternative. Few drugs are licenced for use in rabbits, meaning that many are prescribed under the cascade when treatment is needed. Although rabbits are popular in the UK, owner education is needed to improve the welfare of these animals and to encourage understanding of their unique biology.