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Um , You raise your own rabbits right ?
I just got in a new pair of flemish giants from the rabbit show at the fair grounds, about 3 weeks ago.
The female has had no problums.
But the male is not puting on weight like he should , and seems to eat alot less. and is geting realy bony , and weak lookin.
He isnt moving around to much eather.
I was wondering , every had a buck like this ?
or any rabbit for that matter
I was thinkin maybe he has some kind of worm like a Puppy or something ? Cause his belly seems fat like he's eating good.
They were 4 pounds and 9 weeks old when i bought them. Now the Buck is about 2.5 - 3 pounds , and the female is about 6.5 - 7.5 pounds.
Any idea ?
they are going to the vet on the 7'th ,, but i thought i'd ask if there was anyting i could do , and save myself a vet bill.
Thanks in Advance.
Seth Mason.

He could have pnuemonia. Go to your local feed store and get a bag of powdered neomyacin, or any tetracycline based farm animal antibiotic (forgive my awful spelling,. I am terrible at it. And there are sometimes many different antibiotics with different names, but all are tetracycline based). Keep your rabbit in a warm environment and add about a teaspoon per gallon to his water supply. Change this daily for 7 or 8 days,.. give him about a week break, and then another 7 or 8 days of treatment. Now, this is a very mild and natural antibiotic, so it won't be stressful on him if he should have something other than pnuemonia. In other words,. it won't hurt him, so you might as well try it. Keep us posted, and remember,.. you can breed your flemmish male to any given rabbit species (netherlands, new zeelands, lops) and still produce enormous rabbits. His sperm is basically free, so you might as well use it, you know? And the pure flemmish you produce could be sold for a hefty sum to erradicate any overhead. Just a thought.

>>Um , You raise your own rabbits right ?
>>I just got in a new pair of flemish giants from the rabbit show at the fair grounds, about 3 weeks ago.
>>The female has had no problums.
>>But the male is not puting on weight like he should , and seems to eat alot less. and is geting realy bony , and weak lookin.
>>He isnt moving around to much eather.
>>I was wondering , every had a buck like this ?
>>or any rabbit for that matter
>>I was thinkin maybe he has some kind of worm like a Puppy or something ? Cause his belly seems fat like he's eating good.
>>They were 4 pounds and 9 weeks old when i bought them. Now the Buck is about 2.5 - 3 pounds , and the female is about 6.5 - 7.5 pounds.
>>Any idea ?
>>they are going to the vet on the 7'th ,, but i thought i'd ask if there was anyting i could do , and save myself a vet bill.
>>Thanks in Advance.
>>Seth Mason.
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I'll make a trip to the feed store and get some in the morning and give it a try.
And i didnt know that about the mixing of rabbit types.
I'll have to go get some cheep rabbits and try it. They were 40 a piece , the flemish were , they have pedigre's and are from show giants.
So we were thinking of breeding them together a few times to see what kind of babys we get.
there from diffrent rabbit pairs so they wont be crossbred.
Might show some of the good lookin ones. there rest are snake food.
I figured i could just freeze the ones that are of good size that i dont want to keep.
I hope he makes it.
I'll let ya know how he's doin in a few days.
Seth Mason.