Stinky Little Poo Creature

[Mykl]

My 9-10 month old Netherland Dwarf doesn’t clean the area around his genitals.  Almost every day he gets one (or even two) of the moist ones stuck to the fur and I have to bathe him.  The other day he was actually clean but the following day it happened three time to make up for it.  He cleans every other part of himself.  What can I do about this? 

My older dwarf has only needed to be bathed once when he was a baby.

[Bam]

I have no idea what to do, but I’m hoping someone has. I have the same problem with my dwarf lop, whose age I don’t know but he’s at least 2,5 years. I thought it had sth to do with him being over-weight, but now he’s sucsessfully lost all his surplus fat through dieting, and he still never-minds his butt. I don’t bathe him though, I pick out the mess with my fingers, it’s not stickier than that. But before, when he was new with me and I gave him the wrong kind of food (rabbit-muesli) he had poopy-butt a lot and had to be butt-bathed every other day.

My other bunny cleans himself superbly “down there”.

[Beka27]

By “moist ones” are you referring to cecals (cecotrophs/night droppings)? Since he is a younger rabbit, I’m assuming he isn’t overweight and can reach that area. Rabbits don’t eat cecals they don’t need, so if he is overproducing, he isn’t going to eat all of them.

This sounds more like a diet issue than a hygiene issue.

Can you tell us what his daily diet is:
type of hay (alfalfa, timothy, other grass hay) and brand, and how much he eats per day
type of pellets (alfalfa, timothy, a mix) and brand, and what quantity he is given each day
type of veggies he gets every day, type of veggies he gets occasionally, quantities of each

[Mykl]

OK, I’m back with this topic (I had computer problems and then just forgot about this thread) and would like to sort this out as the problem hasn’t changed.

I don’t think it’s a diet issue as sometimes the poo isn’t stuck around the anus but on other parts of the back area. It’s clear that he just sits in it (and possibly rubs it in). Today I shaved the whole area. He had poo stuck in his fur all along the back of one leg, yesterday it was stuck all along the length of his tail. When it’s fresh it seems the same quality as those of the other rabbit who is always clean.

[BerrySoda]

Hmm, I’m only new to bunny stuff so I’m not sure what you could change in terms of diet. Perhaps he is eating too much fruit and veggies? Or you could try to change up the litter more often so that he can’t sit in it and it becomes stuck?

I found my bunny had some poop stuck to her fur like rock hard, but I bathed just her bum in the basin or wiped it with a face washer and it moistened it enough to slide it off the fur. I pretty much check every day or second day to make sure she is poo free just in case she gets fly strike or something. You could take him to a vet for advice, but probably best to just keep on checking regularly in the mean time.

[MoveDiagonally]

Can you tell us what his daily diet is:
type of hay (alfalfa, timothy, other grass hay) and brand, and how much he eats per day
type of pellets (alfalfa, timothy, a mix) and brand, and what quantity he is given each day
type of veggies he gets every day, type of veggies he gets occasionally, quantities of each

It really does sounds like it might be a diet issue to me. If you answer the questions Beka asked it will really help us offer advice/narrow things down.

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