Hello everyone. This is my first post on this forum, so forgive me if I do something incorrectly.
I recently adopted a young rabbit (around 1 month old) named Baby. Baby did not have access to her mother with her last owner, so she was weaned very early from my understanding of the situation. The last owner said that she had already begun to eat hay and pellets. The weeks following after I adopted her, she was developing soft stool (not sure what the exact cause was, but I can narrow it down to either the new environment or her not getting enough antibodies from her mother’s milk). I remedied the soft stool with probiotics and eventually she was able to have solid, normal droppings. The reason for mentioning this is because today I noticed that Baby had more dandruff than usual (which I had noticed when I had adopted her, examined but did not see anything outright abnormal). I searched through her fur to see if anything was weird and noticed one of the “dandruff flakes” moving. I was so disturbed and immediately realized she may have mites. From my research it’s common for mites to affect young rabbits, and I believe her digestion issues may had a hand in her having them. Baby is fine and hasn’t been scratching excessively, and she doesn’t have any bald patches or crusting forming from scratching. She’s actually acting very normally and hasn’t shown any weird symptoms of her having mites besides some “dandruff”. I am booking an appointment with the vet, but since appointments are extremely difficult to get at the moment I was worried I wouldn’t be able to see them soon enough. I was wondering if there was anything I’d be able to do now for treatment? I am very worried since I already have an older rabbit that shares the same play and rest areas with the younger bun. She’s also had direct contact with her as well.
Please let me know, I’m really freaking out since I want to be a good bun mom to both of my bunnies. Thank you!
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