mucoid rabbit faeces

RE: mucoid rabbit faeces

Roland Bulkyn-Rackowe — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:30:50 GMT

I had to look up what that organism was called. Once I'd seen a picture of it on Google, I think I see those in pretty much all rabbit faeces and a good number of scavenging puppies too. I don't think if it's of any significance clinically.

RE: mucoid rabbit faeces

depacey — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 12:03:26 GMT

no I also thought possible confusion with caecotrophs- but owner has brought in samples of the faeces and not caecotrophs

RE: mucoid rabbit faeces

depacey — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 12:02:20 GMT

Yes, agreed it has had a lot of anti-biotics so far. It is on probiotics only at present.

I wouldn't have thought to have treated for this but it seemingly improved on previous nyastatin?

RE: mucoid rabbit faeces

Lucy Fleming — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 12:54:04 GMT

[quote user="depacey"]passing irregular shaped and sized faeces coated in mucus.[/quote]

This may be a daft question but are you certain these aren't caecotrophs?

RE: mucoid rabbit faeces

John Wessels — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 22:29:58 GMT

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.545.3170&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Saccharomyces spp not believed to be of much importance in the rabbit enteritis.

''Some authors consider that this fungus is of no significance whatsoever (Gautier, 1955; Bu...''

i would say this rabbit has had enough drugs...