Black nail

[ilovetegocalderon]

I noticed the other day that one of Marshy's nail is black...ALL BLACK. All her other nails, except for this one is whitish in color. What could this be??

 

[pamnock]

Rabbits sometimeshave different colored nails. An injury also could have discolored the nail.

Pam

 

[ilovetegocalderon]

So it's nothing I should be worried about then?

 

[rubysmom]

Did this just suddenly occur? If it has always been black or you haven't noticed her nails before, it is probably the natural color of her nails. Some of my guys (guinea pigs and bunnies) have multi-colored nails. Only my NZW has all white nails.

 

[pamnock]

It's hard for me to say without seeing it. Does the toe appear to be normal?

Pam

 

[ilovetegocalderon]

I'll take a better look at it tonight when I get home and give you the details tomorrow. Thanks for your help.

 

[JimD]

pamnock wrote:

An injury could have discolored the nail.

Pam

I clipped Smore's nails last week and noticed the next day that one nail had turned black. I'm thinking that I either clipped the nail too close to the quick and a bit of blood collected under the nail....or S'more decided to trim her nails a bit more that I had and did it herself.
This week you could see that the new growth nail had no black under it.



pamnock wrote:

Rabbits sometimeshave different colored nails.
Pam

MooShu is a dutch mix....mostly black/grey with one white foot. The nails on the white foot are ligher in color that the 3 black feet.

~Jim