Hey. I'm new to this forum. I live in Sweden and can't really get so much information from people in their forums, well to the history and question now.
I have a bunny a black mixed with lionhead and netherland dwarf, she was mating with my male bunny which is a sable point marten lionhead.
Anyways, they had babys before which were fine and all.
But this time she had three baby bunnies, the first one died when it was almost 3 weeks, the second died when it was almost 4 weeks (wasnt at home then, found them dead when i got home).
But the third one which was almost 5 weeks old i saw the symptoms. It started when i was about to give them food, i saw it in the corner of the cage and it didnt move or anything. So i took it up and it had no power in its legs, then it started to move its head very fast to the sides, i tried to comfort it. Then and put it back in its cage again, so there it started to fall on its side and the head was leaning on one side and it tried to walk and fell again. In my mind i knew it was going to die very quickly. So i let it be with its mother.
So after a little while i heard a big scream and i run to it and it's shaking like it was possessed, the head still tilted and it started to draw its head bakwards to its back and forth and kept doing so, then it opened its mouth and closed and did so many times like it coulnt breath properly, and then the whole rabbit started to shake and it was still screaming, then it just died..
The mother to the baby bunnies has no symptoms at all nor do the father. I got time for the vet in two days and will take bloodsamples.
Has anyone experienced anything like this before?
Can it possibly be what i think it is, whichi is Encephalitozoon cuniculi (also called Nosematosis or E cuni culi)?
Or can some other disease cause symptoms like this?
I heard pasteurella can?
I have a bunny a black mixed with lionhead and netherland dwarf, she was mating with my male bunny which is a sable point marten lionhead.
Anyways, they had babys before which were fine and all.
But this time she had three baby bunnies, the first one died when it was almost 3 weeks, the second died when it was almost 4 weeks (wasnt at home then, found them dead when i got home).
But the third one which was almost 5 weeks old i saw the symptoms. It started when i was about to give them food, i saw it in the corner of the cage and it didnt move or anything. So i took it up and it had no power in its legs, then it started to move its head very fast to the sides, i tried to comfort it. Then and put it back in its cage again, so there it started to fall on its side and the head was leaning on one side and it tried to walk and fell again. In my mind i knew it was going to die very quickly. So i let it be with its mother.
So after a little while i heard a big scream and i run to it and it's shaking like it was possessed, the head still tilted and it started to draw its head bakwards to its back and forth and kept doing so, then it opened its mouth and closed and did so many times like it coulnt breath properly, and then the whole rabbit started to shake and it was still screaming, then it just died..
The mother to the baby bunnies has no symptoms at all nor do the father. I got time for the vet in two days and will take bloodsamples.
Has anyone experienced anything like this before?
Can it possibly be what i think it is, whichi is Encephalitozoon cuniculi (also called Nosematosis or E cuni culi)?
Or can some other disease cause symptoms like this?
I heard pasteurella can?