Moult season or just hair loss?

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- 02/12/2017 at 4:14 AM
  Ellie from The Netherlands
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  Breintje has been acting weird this week: feeding frenzy, constantly looking and sniffing for food, trying to crawl everywhere where he isn’t allowed to be. When I petted him today a lot of fur came loose from his cheeks. Is it moult season already? We’re still having snow here. Or is it hair loss because of stress or diet?
- 02/12/2017 at 5:07 AM
  Bam
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  There is no set moult season, but I just noticed Bam has started a shed. The days are getting longer and that does influence a bunny hormonally even if the bunny is neutered/spayed. (There are other light-influenced hormones than the sex hormones + there’s some testosterone-production by the adrenal glands.) Molly Varga mentioned this in a Webbinar I listened to last year. Perhaps Breintje is experiencing a bit of an early onset March hare-syndrome =)
- 02/12/2017 at 3:04 PM
  Bam
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  Just wanted to add: Bam gave me a big scare today -wouldn’t eat, I had to give him gasdrops twice and have him sit in my lap for two hours. I took the opportunity to comb him and my goodness, he’s not just starting a shed, he’s in a full-blown molt. I removed a Bam-sized pile of hair from him. So I guess you could say molt season is here.
  
  (Then he wanted food again, or we’d have taken him to the animal hospital. He was never lethargic. I suspect gas -GI upset is common when bun’s molt.)
- 02/12/2017 at 4:15 PM
  Ellie from The Netherlands
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  Youch, that’s scary indeed. Keep on eating Bam!
  Breintje has one of these GI episodes every moult, probably because he’s ingesting all the hair. Time to get the combs and brushes out!
- 02/12/2017 at 8:56 PM
  Q8bunny
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  Chew’s full-on moulting, and we don’t even have proper seasons. It’s all in the light. Unfortunately, he refuses to let me brush him anymore. I have to pluck him like a chicken with my bare hands every week (or twice a day when he’s moulting) LOL
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