Sunday 12 February 2017

Vaccinated the baby bunnies

I mentioned in the post about the baby bunnies being born that we are paranoid about them dying of a thing called clostridial enterotoxaemia and that there is a vaccination for it that we get from the vet called Coglavax. We were not sure whether to do it this weekend or wait another week until they were a bit bigger. In the end we decided on this weekend. They all seem to have survived.
We had a baby count for the first time and there are 7+6+5 = 18. Two have died that we have seen. One got out the nest box in the night and was dead by morning, the other appeared to have been strangled with a bit of sheeps wool.

Here is mum looking in and checking what I am up to.

This is them sleeping the next day, apparently they survived the ordeal. There was a lot of screaming when the needle went in. I think they try to scare of predators like that.

They need redoing in 6 weeks. Fingers crossed they all live that long. They are very fragile little things.

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