All-cecotropes

[beebun]

Asking for a friend:

Her rabbit had been pooping cecotropes all week. Today there’s no ‘normal’ poop. All cecotropes. He’s still acting normal, eating and peeing and playing.

He was eating Burgess junior pellets, then a massive shortage happened in Indonesia when most of the stuff got held in the cargo longer than expected. My friend, having no clue this would happen ran out of his usual food and got him the adult pellets. This was when the problems started. I recommended lowering the amount of food he eats, but the all-ceco thing still happens even when my friend cut off pellets entirely for a day.

He’s now eating oxbow young bun, still having issues. He has probiotics and a lot of water.

Ps: might be unrelated, but he’s been sniffling/sneezing a little.

If anyone can shed some light in the situation we’d be very grateful!

[Mikey]

Those wouldnt be cecals but rather a sign that his diet is messing with his stomach. When is the soonest she can get his normal pellets back?

[beebun]

Right. The soonest could be in two weeks- this is the best case scenario, as we don’t know for sure when the cargo will be cleared by the authorities.. Usually around the holidays there’s more stuff than usual in the docks.

Is there anything we can do in the meantime?

[Mikey]

If possible, find food with ingredients as close as possible to the ones hes used to being on. And of course, keep encouraging him to eat his hay and drink his water

[Azerane]

You could also reduce the amount of pellets and just encourage more hay eating, hay will get the gut back on track. Rather than risking more upset with more different pellets.

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