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MARANTHA!! Even so, come LORD JESUS!!!
One of my rabbits had a huge lump on it's throat. Initially I thought it was an abcess from a cut or bite, but as I looked at it, I saw there was something in it. It was GROSS!!!!! It was moving!!! First I pressed on the lump, but couldn't get anything to come out. So, I took the thin blade of a knife and picked at whatever it was....I could almost pull it up to where I could get hold of it, so I pulled it up some more. After three tries, I had pulled it up enough to grab it with a pair of pliers.....UGH!!! I pulled out a hairy worm, that was about 2 inches long and about 3/4's of an inch around!!!! DISGUSTING!!! After some research on the web, I discovered it was a botfly larva.....TOTALLY DISGUSTING!!!!
Here's a link if you want to see what it looks like:
http://entomology.unl.edu/images/botflies/rabbitbotfly2.jpg
I filled the big hole it left with "Nu-Stock", (a FANTASTIC medicine we found on E-bay, which is for ANYTHING that causes a dog to lose it's hair, ie. mange, allergies...anything (it WORKS!!!) ) I filled up the hole by pushing the salve down inside with a Q-tip and continued to fill it until it was totally full. Then I smeared salve all over the wound and put the Bunny back in his pen. We had to be out of town for 5 days and someone else was feeding my rabbits, so no further treatment was possible. When we got back last night, I checked the bun, and he was fine!! The wound only had a small scab, which I pulled off to check if it was abcessing, and how deep it was still. It was only about 1/8th of an inch deep and about that long also, compared to when I left, when it was AT LEAST 1 inch deep, and about an inch long! Bun is eating, hoppimg around, doing fine....just thought some of you who raise rabbits might want to know about these GROSS bugs/larva.....
Here's a link if you want to see what it looks like:
http://entomology.unl.edu/images/botflies/rabbitbotfly2.jpg
I filled the big hole it left with "Nu-Stock", (a FANTASTIC medicine we found on E-bay, which is for ANYTHING that causes a dog to lose it's hair, ie. mange, allergies...anything (it WORKS!!!) ) I filled up the hole by pushing the salve down inside with a Q-tip and continued to fill it until it was totally full. Then I smeared salve all over the wound and put the Bunny back in his pen. We had to be out of town for 5 days and someone else was feeding my rabbits, so no further treatment was possible. When we got back last night, I checked the bun, and he was fine!! The wound only had a small scab, which I pulled off to check if it was abcessing, and how deep it was still. It was only about 1/8th of an inch deep and about that long also, compared to when I left, when it was AT LEAST 1 inch deep, and about an inch long! Bun is eating, hoppimg around, doing fine....just thought some of you who raise rabbits might want to know about these GROSS bugs/larva.....