Rabbits Flashcards

1
Q

Facts

  • teeth
  • testes location
  • droppings
A
  • open rooted incisors and molar teeth
  • testes in front of penis
  • 2 types: fecal and cecotropes
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2
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Meat life stages

A

babies –> fryers (8-12wk) -> rosters

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3
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Diet

- ratio

A

70% hay: 25% pellet : 5% veggies

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4
Q

common presenting problems

A
  • anorexia
  • resp
  • head tilt
  • trauma
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5
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Vitals

  • temp
  • HR
  • Resp
A
  • 38.8-39.8
  • 140-300
  • 30-60
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6
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Restraint methods

A
  • towel burrito

- hold front sitting back against you

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7
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Signs of pain

A
  • arch back
  • belly press
  • orbital tightening
  • ears down
  • cheek flattening
  • nostrils in slit
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8
Q

What’s special about urine and xray?

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  • hypercalcium in urine –> more radio-opaque
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9
Q

Recommended abc

A
  • FQ, TMS, aminoglycosides, tetraccline

- avoid B-lactams and macrolides (kills gram +ve and anaerobic flora)

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10
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Vessels can use-

  • fluids
  • blood collection
A
  • lateral ear vein

- central ear a., saphenous, cephalic, jugular

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11
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Common gen anesth proceedures

A
  • spay/neuter
  • dental
  • mass removal
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12
Q

When to do spay?
Type of uterus?
Something special about uterus?

A
  • 6-8mo
  • duplex
  • deep vaginal vestibules
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13
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When to castrate

A
  • 12wko
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14
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Facial/dental abscess

  • pathogen
  • tx
A
  • Pasteurella, Staph

- drain, remove affected teeth, abx

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15
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GI type

A
  • large cecum
  • sacculated prox colon
  • thin walled stomach
  • lymph tissue by ileocecal juction = sacculus rotundus
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16
Q

What good things are in cecotrophes

A
  • vit B, K
  • protein
  • fibre
17
Q

GI stasis

  • cause
  • signs
  • dx
  • tx
A
  • dehydration, many,
  • anorexia, wgt loss, dehydrated, general malaise
  • palpapate, xray
  • IV fluids, force feed, exercise, sedation, +/-pro-motility (cisapride, metoclopramid), +/- softners (enzymes)
  • sx if can’t avoid
18
Q

Diarhea

  • pathogens
  • tx
A
  • the typical, Astrovirus, C. piliformes/spiroforme/difficule
  • ## fluids, adequate fibre, analgesia, +/-abx,
19
Q

C. difficile or spiroforme

  • what it causes
  • causes
  • signalment
A
  • enterotoxemia, typhlitis, colitis
  • fauna disruption: e.g. carb overload, abx
  • 4-8wko
20
Q

C. piliforme

  • dz
  • PM
  • age
A
  • acute diarrhea, rapid death
  • lesions on cecum, liver, and heart
  • weanlings
21
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Coccidiosis

  • species
  • sporulation time
  • tx
  • signs if in liver
A
  • Eimeria spp.
  • 2d
  • TMS, goodheygiene-
  • dect grwoth, pendulous abd
22
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Pasteurella multocida

  • signs
  • tx
  • prognosis
A
  • conjunctivitis, septicemia, abscesses, repro
  • long term abx
  • palliative only, reoccur often
23
Q

Resp pathogens

A
  • Pasteurella multocida*
  • Bordetella bronchiseptica
  • herpes
24
Q

Abscess pathogens

A
  • Pasteurella

- Staph

25
Q

Causes of eye issues

A
  • pasteurella

- encephalitozoone

26
Q
Encephalitozoon cuniculi
- what
- where
- lesion
- signs
-
A
  • miscrosporidial parasite
  • kidneys
  • granulomatous encephalitis
  • health tilt, cataracts, uveitis, subclin
27
Q

Urinary conditions

A
  • kidney stones

- nephritis: encephalitozoon, bac

28
Q

Repro conditions

A
  • uterine adenocarcinoma*
  • pyometra
  • uterine aneurysm
29
Q

Uterine adenocarcinoma

  • signs
  • malignancy
A
  • non specific

- slow metastasis

30
Q

Uterine venous aneurysm tx

A
  • stabilize
  • fluids
  • spay
31
Q

Treponema paraluiscuniculi

  • aka
  • lesions
A
  • rabbit syphilis

- scabby scaling lesions, vulvitis

32
Q

Mammary issues

A
  • cystic hyperplasia

- dysplasia

33
Q

Skin dz’s

A
  • barbering, pododermatitis, ringworm, parasites
34
Q

Pododermatitis

  • pathogen
  • cause
  • tx
A
  • staph aureus
  • poor sanitation, wire housing
  • clip, topical iodine
35
Q

Parasites

A
  • Psoroptes caniculi (ear mites)*
  • cat fleas
  • sarcoptes scabei
    ceterebra
36
Q

Psoroptes caniculi

  • signs
  • tx
A
  • scratching, head shaking

- selamectin, moxidectin, systemic ivermectin –> repeat in 2wk