Hmm, it is hard to say, did you feel his stomach at all to see if it felt bloated or doughey? It could have been gas though since he recovered so quickly, it usually takes a few days’ time to recover from stasis. Glad to hear Stormy is OK. Whew, what a scare!

For future reference Scarlet, when you say doughy (I only have experience with making pizza dough) what exactly are we feeling for? Is the abdomen tense, taut, springy, or what? I always want to be careful that Mim and Pip don’t get this, but I can’t really tell what is meant by this term.

My pizza dough feels about like a baby’s bottom, but I kinda think that’s not what I’m looking for. :-/

It would feel like pizza dough – squishy.

yup… squishy.  if bloated their tums feel like a little balloon pushing against their ribs.

Yes, gas makes the stomach bloat.

??? I don’t know…I’m glad the semethicone is working…You didn’t change his diet at all? How is he now?

Hmm, that’s odd. Have you tried brushing him to get most of the fur out? It sounds like happens very quickly. I think I’m going to have to do a little research.

I have recently (the last couple of week’s since being at home) found Fibreplex is a wonderful thing to sort any tummy troubles..it comes in a big syringe type thing and the buns absolutely LOVE it. Phewf for it’s carroty goodness!! Just a teeny bit each day and it soon shifts any blockage or bloaty belly. Thankfully Brian has stopped shedding – for now at least – as Bettie was grooming him and becoming ingested..i’ve never seen poops so small… and after using this weird gritty stuff whoa i’d never seen a poop as the one she’d left me on Monday morning!!

After grooming Bettie Bean yesterday we decided to give her a “haircut” as i was concerned about fur injestion as she has started to moult and Brian always seems to be doing so. I had the shock of my life to suddenly feel all her ribs under the mass of fluff she has. She had been eating a little but refused parsley the last day which is very unlike her, and i then noticed she was preferring to avoid Brian and sitting in a ball in the corner under the bed. So before I went to bed I managed a long belly massage resultinig in loud gurgles. I booked her in at the vet’s first thing this morning and explained my concerns. She had a feel and couldn’t feel any blockage as i had thought, but instead her little belly felt “empty”. (i’d been checking poops which made me have suspicions and so upped her fibre intake including Fibreplex which she had also recently not been keen on.

My poor little girly had to have 2 injections and I’ve been given some Zantac to feed her twice a day and some foul smelling speedy recovery food which I need to syringe feed her every 2 hours (thank god I’m not back at work yet and am still not sleeping properly!!), and an early morning visit back at the vet’s tomorrow. She has just wolfed down some nice wet parsley and plenty of lovely fresh hay, and has also come out from under the bed to greet me like normal….and I just wanted to stress that if anyone is ever in doubt about anything they feel is not quite right with their buns GO GET IT CHECKED OUT!!!!!

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ohhh no!! I don’t like hearing someone’s bun is sick…*****VIBES for Bettie**** Keep us posted!

ooo hope Bettie will be ok and keep eating, I’m so glad she’s getting such good care from her mommy.

Sorry i had to post it on this thread but i wasnt able to post anywhere else last night.

Bettie has just got back from her day after check up, he vet was thrilled to see such an improvement and to hear Baby Bean had wolfed down loads of oat, wheat and barley hay, and was given another injection, and some meds to take until Thursday. She has bought a little tear to my eye as she has hopped back under the bed and tucked into a huge pile of brussell sprouts!!!

Hi,

Does he do this a lot right after eating?  Does he really gulp his food down?  I know this is not totally the same, but horses have a similar condition called colic, and I had one horse that would eat so fast and furious that he would colic right away, then after I walked him around he’d get better.  I finally cured this by making him eat more slowly.  I put his food in a big shallow dish instead of a deep one (this was pellets same as buns).  If your bunny is gulping his food maybe you could try something similar.  I also found wetting the pellets down helps since then at least they don’t get a mass of it all stuck in their tummies.  Take care.

Charlene

Charlene -great thoughts!! I’d often thought colic was very similar to buns having stais as their digestive systems are both so delicate! Colic is sooo scary!

Welcome to binky bunny!!!

Do you still have that horse? I’ve seen some people put large rocks in the feed bin too, to slow down eating, as the horse has to eat around it Glad you solved the problem though!!

No, I sold that horse, after he put on weight he stopped eating like a freak anyway

Colic is so similar, down to the meds.  I have banamine at home for the horses, but I don’t usually have such tiny syringes!  They don’t give horses the gut stimulants though (at least not as readily)  I’ve always wondered why.  But you can do surgery on a horse, but not a bun.