Ear tips drooping on baby

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- 12/09/2018 at 5:41 PM
  Drob800
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  Hi all,
  
  I just noticed that one of our eight week old baby’s ear tips are drooping. Any ideas?
  
  We just took all 5 babies to the vet on Friday to help us determine their sex. Everyone was fine. I didn’t notice the ear droop yesterday either.
  
  I’ve searched online and found causes for the entire ears to droop, but not just the tips.
  
  It may take a day or two to get in at the vet so I thought I’d ask here.
  
  Thanks!
- 12/09/2018 at 8:09 PM
  jerseygirl
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  The dropping ear tips can be a sign of vitamin A deficiency in young rabbits. That would be rare, I think.
  However, your rabbit looks like she could be an angora mix. Is one of the parents an English Angora?
  
  Do the babies get alfalfa hay? This is a good source of vitamin A but it’s also good for growing rabbits and/or pregnant & lactating rabbits.
- 12/09/2018 at 9:27 PM
  jerseygirl
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  Just reading some other possible reasons –
  – dehydration
  -overheating.
  
  I also saw photos of lop bun whose ear tips that lopped first, then the rest of the ears after.
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