He’s about 11 weeks old right now; I’ve been refilling his food bowl with pellets whenever he runs out, but he really hasn’t eaten more than 1/4 a day since I brought him home. And since he’s still a baby, I haven’t introduced any veggies to him at all; I generally don’t give babies veggies until they hit 6 months, so I’m sticking to that regimen.
I didn’t explain it very well before, but he only emits a few small poops; the sizes seem to vary. Like, he’ll have normal size poops, and then right after will emit a few small ones. I also can’t tell if it’s because he’s so small; he’s a dwarf rabbit AND a baby on top of that, so I’m not sure how normal the poop size variance for this small breed is. And like you said, he’s eating his hay constantly, which is why I’m confused why his gut would be slowing down. The types of pellets I’m giving him are Manna pro-formula timothy pellets, and the hay is a local organic natural cut timothy hay.
I’m definitely taking him to the vet on Friday, and I’ve been getting regular updates on him from home; he’s eating and drinking and has been pooping all day, and once again the sizes vary. Also, I have touched his stomach to feel if it’s hard and distended to indicate gut bloat, but so far his tummy is very soft and squishy, so this is all a very confusing set of symptoms.
I’ll try putting apple juice in his water to see if he’ll take it! That is a great tip, thanks
As for the EC – my vet said she’d never seen such a severe case of EC in a rabbit; the alligator rolling at the end had become uncontrollable, even when she was stabilized in a box with towels keeping her in place. She was on the antimicrobial EC medication for a week and a half and instead of getting better, she only got worse. She was put on the antibiotics to treat a possible ear infection, but none of the medications she took seemed to help. The only thing her vet could tell me at the end was that this was either not going to get better, MIGHT get better but she would have severe deficits (severe head tilt, ocular problems, etc.) or that this wasn’t EC at all, it could be another internal cause that we couldn’t diagnose without extensive cat scans and MRI scans. In the end I opted for humane euthanization because at the very peak of this illness, she was constantly stressed and was in pain, so it was inhumane to continue any treatment or any type of care for her. But normally EC is supposedly very treatable in rabbits, my rabbit could have been a very extreme or severe case; she was an adopted stray, so I have no idea where she was or how she was treated before I brought her home