One of my bunnies always has diarrhea

[Plumped Cuddly Bunnies]

She has also been losing weight. Her poo is often sticky and clumpy instead of dry balls and other times its gooey. I cut out fresh veg from her diet and I put her on a diet of only hay and dry pellet food which helped a bit for a while but her poop is still gooey. She has also slowly been losing weight for sometime. She eats and drinks with no problems and shes very active. There are no vets to see her and I can only do so much. I think she could really do with a blood test but obviously I’m not a vet so I can not do that. The problem could be something simple that could be treated at home. I checked her gums and her eyes and they are on the pale side but not too pale so I don’t think its anything to worry about. It might be she is lacking something and needs some vitamins or calcium.

My other two bunnies are fine and feed them greens as well as hay and dry food with the odd treats and there poop is always normal.

[Bam]

The fact that she’s losing weihgt is worrisome. Many buns have what is known intermittent soft cecotropes aka sticky poop, but that as a rule doesnt make them lose weight.

Maybe there is something in the pellets that doesnt agree with her?

You could try to add a probiotic to her diet to see if that makes a difference.

[DanaNM]

Unfortunately this doesn’t sound like something simple that can be treated at home, since you already tried cutting out veggies.

Can you post a picture of the poop? True diarrhea is an emergency, whereas excess or mis-formed cecotropes is less urgent. Does she ever have normal poops?

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[Plumped Cuddly Bunnies]

Her diarrhea has stopped for now and she is pooping normal again. She seems to go through phases of it. Shes my most active bunny so I don’t think she is ill although saying that it can be very hard to tell when a bunny is not feeling well as they can’t talk lol but from my observations today she seems to be very happy and lively. I noticed shes getting a bit of weight back I can feel she is heavier than before.

[Bam]

Intermittent soft cecotropes is caused by a slight imbalance of the microbiota of the cecum. There’s an intricate and not yet fully understood interplay between a whole host of various bacteria and yeasts. ISC is not life-threatening, and not an emergency, as long as there are normal-ish poops as well as sticky poop. Here’s an article on this:

https://rabbit.org/intermittent-soft-cecotropes-in-rabbits/

I had a rabbit (Bam, my user name and my avatar), that suffered from this condition.

ISC would not explain the weight loss though.

 

[Plumped Cuddly Bunnies]

She is doing healthy poo’s now. There has been no more diarrhea or sticky poop for a while but she is losing weight again.

[Bam]

Lovely to hear about the sticky poop, PCB! The weight loss is more worrisome though.

[Plumped Cuddly Bunnies]

I’ll be keeping a close eye on her, it could be that she is not going to be as stocky as the others. If she continues losing more weight that becomes unhealthy I’ll try get her some help. She isn’t displaying any obvious signs of illness other than the weight loss.

[DanaNM]

Weight loss is a pretty serious symptom of illness. Is she living on her own and eating the same amounts as the other rabbits?

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[Plumped Cuddly Bunnies]

She lives with the other female bunny they always eat together, she eats plenty of hay as well as her pellet food they also get some greens from time to time. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do except look after her as best I can and hope shes ok. The country is in a dire state, getting help for anything right now is very difficult to impossible. For the time being I’m pretty much on my own with the rabbits.

[DanaNM]

it could be that the other bunny is eating more pellets, so feeding her separately for a a time could help make sure she’s getting enough pellets.

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