RE: Yogurt?

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RE: Yogurt?

01/31/2017 at 9:30 PM

jerseygirl

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To be honest, I think you are right to question it. Dairy products are not really natural to the rabbit gut. It’s a bit of an old fashioned tip, in my opinion. I don’t think it’s super bad to give, and you’ll find people still prefer to do it…but to me, why bother when there are alternatives? You can use other things to help the medicine go down, and if the yogurt was also recommended to promote good gut health, you can give probiotics in a tablet or powdered form.

What condition was your rabbit prescribed the antibiotics for?