Rabbits Flashcards
1
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Facts
- teeth
- testes location
- droppings
A
- open rooted incisors and molar teeth
- testes in front of penis
- 2 types: fecal and cecotropes
2
Q
Meat life stages
A
babies –> fryers (8-12wk) -> rosters
3
Q
Diet
- ratio
A
70% hay: 25% pellet : 5% veggies
4
Q
common presenting problems
A
- anorexia
- resp
- head tilt
- trauma
5
Q
Vitals
- temp
- HR
- Resp
A
- 38.8-39.8
- 140-300
- 30-60
6
Q
Restraint methods
A
- towel burrito
- hold front sitting back against you
7
Q
Signs of pain
A
- arch back
- belly press
- orbital tightening
- ears down
- cheek flattening
- nostrils in slit
8
Q
What’s special about urine and xray?
A
- hypercalcium in urine –> more radio-opaque
9
Q
Recommended abc
A
- FQ, TMS, aminoglycosides, tetraccline
- avoid B-lactams and macrolides (kills gram +ve and anaerobic flora)
10
Q
Vessels can use-
- fluids
- blood collection
A
- lateral ear vein
- central ear a., saphenous, cephalic, jugular
11
Q
Common gen anesth proceedures
A
- spay/neuter
- dental
- mass removal
12
Q
When to do spay?
Type of uterus?
Something special about uterus?
A
- 6-8mo
- duplex
- deep vaginal vestibules
13
Q
When to castrate
A
- 12wko
14
Q
Facial/dental abscess
- pathogen
- tx
A
- Pasteurella, Staph
- drain, remove affected teeth, abx
15
Q
GI type
A
- large cecum
- sacculated prox colon
- thin walled stomach
- lymph tissue by ileocecal juction = sacculus rotundus
16
Q
What good things are in cecotrophes
A
- vit B, K
- protein
- fibre
17
Q
GI stasis
- cause
- signs
- dx
- tx
A
- dehydration, many,
- anorexia, wgt loss, dehydrated, general malaise
- palpapate, xray
- IV fluids, force feed, exercise, sedation, +/-pro-motility (cisapride, metoclopramid), +/- softners (enzymes)
- sx if can’t avoid
18
Q
Diarhea
- pathogens
- tx
A
- the typical, Astrovirus, C. piliformes/spiroforme/difficule
- ## fluids, adequate fibre, analgesia, +/-abx,
19
Q
C. difficile or spiroforme
- what it causes
- causes
- signalment
A
- enterotoxemia, typhlitis, colitis
- fauna disruption: e.g. carb overload, abx
- 4-8wko
20
Q
C. piliforme
- dz
- PM
- age
A
- acute diarrhea, rapid death
- lesions on cecum, liver, and heart
- weanlings
21
Q
Coccidiosis
- species
- sporulation time
- tx
- signs if in liver
A
- Eimeria spp.
- 2d
- TMS, goodheygiene-
- dect grwoth, pendulous abd
22
Q
Pasteurella multocida
- signs
- tx
- prognosis
A
- conjunctivitis, septicemia, abscesses, repro
- long term abx
- palliative only, reoccur often
23
Q
Resp pathogens
A
- Pasteurella multocida*
- Bordetella bronchiseptica
- herpes
24
Q
Abscess pathogens
A
- Pasteurella
- Staph
25
Causes of eye issues
- pasteurella
| - encephalitozoone
26
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Encephalitozoon cuniculi
- what
- where
- lesion
- signs
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- miscrosporidial parasite
- kidneys
- granulomatous encephalitis
- health tilt, cataracts, uveitis, subclin
27
Urinary conditions
- kidney stones
| - nephritis: encephalitozoon, bac
28
Repro conditions
- uterine adenocarcinoma*
- pyometra
- uterine aneurysm
29
Uterine adenocarcinoma
- signs
- malignancy
- non specific
| - slow metastasis
30
Uterine venous aneurysm tx
- stabilize
- fluids
- spay
31
Treponema paraluiscuniculi
- aka
- lesions
- rabbit syphilis
| - scabby scaling lesions, vulvitis
32
Mammary issues
- cystic hyperplasia
| - dysplasia
33
Skin dz's
- barbering, pododermatitis, ringworm, parasites
34
Pododermatitis
- pathogen
- cause
- tx
- staph aureus
- poor sanitation, wire housing
- clip, topical iodine
35
Parasites
- Psoroptes caniculi (ear mites)*
- cat fleas
- sarcoptes scabei
ceterebra
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Psoroptes caniculi
- signs
- tx
- scratching, head shaking
| - selamectin, moxidectin, systemic ivermectin --> repeat in 2wk
