Observing poop?

[Briana C.]

 SInce i have an out door bunny parasites are much more likely to occur, does any one have any advice on how to look at the dropping to see if anything is wrong with greyson? He is acting perfectly fine and his dropping look normal, I’d just like to be cautious.

 

Thanks

[Beka27]

I think you can sometimes see pinworms moving thru the poop, but usually it has to go thru a fecal test at the vet’s office to determine if there are any parasites.

[Deleted User]

You really need to get your vet or the vet tech rather to run an analysis to know. You wouldn’t see all the different parasites or organisms yourself.
I am not sure if a single outdoor bun is at a higher risk for internal parasites; it depends on his housing. Does he live on the ground? Does he come into contact with grass that may be contamineted by wildllife droppings etc?

[wiseleyd]

 He is also more at risk for parasites if he has or has ever had fleas. It would be hard to see parasites in bunny poop because it is so full of digested hay! The fecal test at my vet was not horribly expensive. I opted to test two separate batches because it would be easy to miss a parasite in the incredible volume of poop that Mellow produces!!!

[RabbitPam]

If you feel that your bunny is at high risk of this due to being outside, I’m sure you know that it’s an option to consider to move the bunny inside somewhere. If you have tight quarters, and would like to do that but feel you don’t have room, we can help you with some creative space saving designs.
Perhaps where you have the bunny outdoors makes him susceptible to parasites? Possibly a slightly different outdoor habitat would help?

[Sarita]

I totally agree – consider bringing him indoors where you know it’s safe. Outside rabbits can also get botfly – a very nasty bug that digs in the skin and eats them from the inside out.

[KatnipCrzy]

You would possibly be able to see some worms if htey have a heavy load- but mainly they shed microscopic eggs and coccidia and giardia are also microscopic- so the only way to tell is to have a fecal check done at a vet clinic.

Griffin had coccidia when I got him- I gave him the round of meds-  waited a couple of weeks- and then had it rechecked- and it was negative.  Fortunately I had done this when he was housed in a separate room from the other bunnies (quarantine) when I first got him otherwise he might have passed it on to Cotton and Schroeder if they had come into contact with his stool or litterbox. And then I would have needed to treat and test then which would have cost me more money $ then.

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