Probiotic for bunnies

[Fluffbusters]

Hello everyone I I have a quick question about probiotics for bunnies. As you know my vet has recently prescribed Oreo a feline probiotic supplements and I have done some research and it is flavoured with liver. I am a little apprehensive about giving this to her and don’t know if anybody else has any other suggestions the only thing that’s really available for me right now that I can purchase at a pet store is a Marshalls probiotic used for ferrets and other small animals. Has anybody ever used this for their rabbit to help their digestive system while they are taking antibiotics for a respiratory infection? Or are there vegetables out there that could be a probiotic that I can give to Oreo instead of medication. I know this may sound weird I’m just really apprehensive about what I give my rabbit

[lindseyh2]

I recently had to take my rabbit Ollie to our vet for a ringworm infection, and they gave us a probiotic powder we could sprinkle on food/his veggies if we chose to. It’s specific for small animals. My first instinct is to shy away from the liver-flavor supplement, but I’m sure other BB members will chime in as well.

[Dface]

As far as I know there are only two types of probiotics that have been shown useful for rabbits. The best tested one is brewer’s yeast (saccaromyces cerevisiae), the other one is enterococcus faecium.

E. faecium is the most prevalent gut bacteria of healthy rabbits.

 

So if you are looking at probiotics for a bunny, they should contain one of these. There are plenty available to purchase online, although convincing your rabbit too eat them can be tricky at times, I found I had to shop around a bit before they’d eat what I offered. A lot of predator based probiotics won’t contain these and therefore aren’t all that useful to a rabbits system.

 

 

[jerseygirl]

Ive used one that’s just a powder I sprinkled over the salad greens. Protexin is one Ive seen offered for rabbits.  Benebac is like a gel and normally palatable for rabbits.

It not known if most of the probiotics even survive the acidity of the rabbits stomach, let along make their way to the cecum. But they possibly do help in bringing the stomach to the right acidity level.  The best “probiotic” you could give her is the cecal droppings from your other rabbit! Does he ever leave any extras around?

[Bam]

I use Protexin probiotic pellets (with saccaromyces cerevisiae) and Synbiotic D-C (with enterococcus faecium) for my bun.  The Fortiflora for cats and dogs contain enterococcus faecium, which is great, but they also contain meat and meat by -products. My bunny Bam did get a dog probiotic from the vet back in the day, when there were no special rabbit probiotics available. It was liver-flavored but he didnt seem to mind. There wasn’t a lot of liver in it, it was mostly cereal. It wasnt Fortiflora though, I have no experience with that particular brand.

 

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