Rabbit fur falling out exposing skin

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- 12/30/2022 at 1:57 PM
  richards1052`
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  Our rabbi is about 8 years old. He’s been in good health. But recently the fur on top of his head has fallen out, exposing his skin. Could you take a look at this picture and let me know what you think is wrong and how to tend to it and heal it.
  
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- 12/31/2022 at 6:08 AM
  Bam
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  It does look weird, I’m not quite sure what I’m looking at. What is the white-ish spot that I’ve circled in this pic?:
  
  Is that a crusty bare spot of skin or is it just some sort of optical illusion?
  
  The skin on the back of the neck looks very red. Bare spots can occur during heavy molting, but that doesnt make the skin red. Do you have more than one rabbit? (Rabbits can sometimes over-groom each other).
- 12/31/2022 at 11:19 AM
  Wick & Fable
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  Everything EXCEPT what Bam has circled in their edit of your pic doesn’t concern me — it looks like a normal molt, from my experience of molts with Wick. It can sometimes leave very distinct, isolated bare skin patches.
  
  What is circled does look unusual — it is a scab? Hard? Raised? It’s hard to tell based on the pic angle.
  
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- 12/31/2022 at 3:12 PM
  richards1052`
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  He’s never molted before. Which is why the bare spots seemed weird to us. BUt I suppose he could be molting for the first time now.
  
  He’s our only rabbit. So he’s not being groomed by another one.
  
  As for the whitish spot, it’s not a scab and not raised.
  
  We have a vet appointment on Monday. So we’ll see what they say.
  
  Thanks for reassuring us about the molt. We had no idea what that would look like.
- 12/31/2022 at 8:21 PM
  LBJ10
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  The spot on the crown of his head almost looks like patches of new fur growing in.
- 01/01/2023 at 12:42 AM
  richards1052`
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  After reading about molting, it did say that after the molt, the fur starts returning through the bare skin. And the molting has been going on for perhaps 2 weeks. So I’m guessing that you’re right.
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