Category: Rabbit Health

Rabbit Tuberculosis closely resembles tuberculosis found in humans. Since the animal is highly fragile it is susceptible to all types of tuberculosis. It includes bovine, human and avian. Tuberculosis has remained a global public health problem for quite a long time. Delicate animals like rabbits to receive it due to cavitary pulmonary lesions. Therefore, it becomes indispensable for rabbit breeders to have adequate knowledge of all forms of rabbit diseases. The rabbit is experimentally susceptible to all forms of tuberculosis, bovine, human and avian, but the bovine form is most commonly found, although the disease is rare. It has greatly decreased in incidence, due probably to the fact that milk is now much less frequently feel too domestic rabbits, and such milk as is fed is likely to be free of the bacillus. In the acute form often no symptoms are present before death, but in the chronic form, there is the loss of condition and appetite,

Rabbit Vitamins are chemical substances required in minute quantities for the maintenance of health.   Rabbit Vitamin Types   Rabbit Vitamin A (or substances from which the rabbit can manufacture it) is found in green foodstuffs and in fish liver oils. A deficiency may cause various nervous disorders. There is also some evidence that rabbits fed on rations that are deficient in this rabbit vitamin become more susceptible to certain diseases. The normal rations of the rabbit are however not deficient, and therefore trouble from a deficiency of this vitamin is unlikely.   Vitamins of the B group are also found in fresh green foods and in oilseeds and cakes. Further, the bacterial population of the caecum manufactures these vitamins. Thus it is unlikely that any deficiency would normally occur. There have however been reports of poor growth and reproductive failures due to a lack of these rabbit vitamins.   Vitamin C is found widely in green foodstuffs and is furthermore synthesized by the rabbit itself.