Hi wonka,

I do apologize since the forum is currently undergoing an update and it is likely no one is here to answer your question. I know you’re worried, so I will try to help you. From what you’re describing, it does sound like a bit of gas or stomach upset. This could be the result of stress (new environment) or a change in diet (something didn’t agree with him). Is he still eating some? If he is still eating some, then I wouldn’t be horribly worried. He should be OK to wait until tomorrow. You can try tummy massages. Baby gas drops (simethicone) is safe to give, although there is debate on how effective it actually is. For some bunnies, it seems to help. Here is an article on it: https://rabbit.org/chapters/se-pennsylvania/GIStasis.htm

Dental problems can cause digestive issues and gas, so it is a possibility. How old is he?

If he’s not eating at all, then something needs to be done ASAP. They simply can’t go days without eating anything.

I agree with LBJ10.   So sorry you are going through this. 🙁   Keep us updated.

He’s beautiful!

Hay is the most important food for rabbits (as you know), but if a rabbit refuses to eat hay, you have to give him other food. It is important that there is food in the bunny tummy practically all the time. If he eats pellets and greens and critical care from a bowl, that’s fine for now. Even treats are fine now, in moderate amounts of course, because eating something is a million times better than eating nothing.

It is likely that he has a bit of stomach ache now, because he hasn’t been eating like he normally does. Antibiotics also affect the bacterial balance in the gut and can cause stomach upset. As LBJ said, simethicone baby gas drops can help. Why it helps nobody knows for sure, there is no hard scientific proof, but it seems to help quite a few rabbits, for example my own rabbit.

It is also important that he moves around a bit, because that helps the gut move. You may expect to see weirdly shaped poop or sticky poop, that’s a result of not eating like normal + the antibiotics, but all poop except compeletely watery or mucos-y poop is good under these circumstances.

ETA: There seems to be several different brands of baby gas drops in Malaysia, for example Mommy’s Bliss and Infant’s Mylicon Gas Relief. You give 1 ml every hour for 3 hours, then 0.5 ml every 2-3 hours. You should see improvement after the first few doses though.

If there’s no gas, you dont have to give him gasdrops. Have you seen any poop lately?

It’s great that he has eaten a bit more! It can be some time before you see poop, because there just isnt very much material in the intestines to make poop from. It’s very very good that’s he eats himself. If he stops eating you will have to syringe feed him even if he hates you for it. It’s actually good when a bun puts up a bit of a fight, because it means there is strenght in him. They do forgive their human once the ordeal is over and they feel better again.

It’s a really, really good sign that he pooped, and that he also ate his cecal poop! Very good news! You are doing things right!

Any brand of simethicone baby gas drops is fine. They vary in strenght between 20 too 100 mg/ml, but they’re all fine to use and dosage is roughly the same regardless of strenght. It’s not taken up by the body, it just comes out with the poop,  so it’s difficult to overdose by mistake.

Lovely news, and so clever of you! Very nice poop harvest! I hope you’ll get the new hay swiftly and that he likes it. Rabbits can be very picky with hay, you often have to try various kinds.

Rabbits also tend to like to pee and poop on soft stuff, like fleece blankets. It can be a bit inconvenient, because you have to do laundry more often. I buy the cheapest fleece blankets I can find and cut them in halves for my bun and rotate them every couple of days. He digs in them and pees on them, and when they’re too full of holes I toss them out.

I’m glad he is doing better now. It really does sound like something upset his GI system. It could have been stress or something he ate. It’s hard to know for sure. I do encourage you to have his back teeth checked when you can, just in case. Otherwise, it looks like he is on his way toward recovery. Definitely try to get some different hay to see if that helps. Not eating hay is a sign of tooth issues… but it could also be a sign that you got a bad batch of hay. 😉

If there’s poop, there isn’t a blockage. Gas though, probably some gas.

<p style=”text-align: left;”>I agree gas seems likely. Your light massage probably helped.</p>