is this a disease?

[andy_browning 0]

did that rong i totaly agree lngdog thts alwayz bin my understandin

[Moe 108]

while i was cleaning out one of the rabbits i caught yesterday i came across a large ball like growth inside the rabbit,it was a bit smaller than a tennis ball,white and hard,when i cut it open the inside was a thick white liquid,about the same thickness as wallpaper paste,does anyone know what this is and would the rabbit have been ok to eat(i threw it away).thanks

sounds like a ball of tape worm eggs ,ive found them all over on rabbits,if its like puss probably just a cyst.wormy ones need boiling ,or freezing for 1 month to kill them ,cysts just cut them out and use ,hope this helps.

[inan 841]

I think you'll find it was young inside thats been aborted due to the cold snap, the rabbits reabsorb the goodness in the unborn young rather than abort it out of the body.

 

yis

smoggy

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And the meat is prefectly ok to eat, although its not the best time to be stocking up your freezers as most rabbits are in poor condition due the rescent weeks of bad weather

 

yis

smoggy

 

 

The rabbits Magwitch and I have been taking are invariably in fine shape ,with big deposits of fat around the kidneys, a lot of them are caught around orchards,,where they eat apples and tree bark,they seem to thrive on this fare.

Edited February 7, 2010 by inan

[comanche 3,024]

Big white bags filled with cheesy pus-cysts.Watery bags filled with tape worm eggs, and other odd growths that might be triggered by disease,a wound or a foreign object turn -up quite often .We all get spots ,parasites,growths and cancers why should rabbits be different ?.

The reabsorbed feotii are just that -reabsorbed -gone-you won't find them . Occasionally though you might find a mummyfied feotus-a hard ,lumpy little baby bunny a bit like a large kidney bean . I believe the same can happen in most animals but pigs are prone to it.

[lapin2008 1,587]

while i was cleaning out one of the rabbits i caught yesterday i came across a large ball like growth inside the rabbit,it was a bit smaller than a tennis ball,white and hard,when i cut it open the inside was a thick white liquid,about the same thickness as wallpaper paste,does anyone know what this is and would the rabbit have been ok to eat(i threw it away).thanks

I saw the exact same thing friday night but had never seen it before. The rabbit itself was pretty skinny so looked a bit ill. ball was perfect sphere and siz of golf ball, also had white paste in it. I preseume was a cyst because of the puss type stuff inside it

It was a male as well

Edited February 7, 2010 by lapin2008

[auld salmon 28]

got this yesterday size of a golfball might be tapeworms or fluke worms was like water inside but liver was pale in colour and had little lumps on it spoke to a mate today and said put it in the bin to be safe as it would be right through the meat

[richberry79 1]

one of the rabbits i got today had a lump the same, i thought it could be of a bite as the rabbit looked like it was in a fight, i binned it to

[joey1979 0]

Big white bags filled with cheesy pus-cysts.Watery bags filled with tape worm eggs, and other odd growths that might be triggered by disease,a wound or a foreign object turn -up quite often .We all get spots ,parasites,growths and cancers why should rabbits be different ?.

The reabsorbed feotii are just that -reabsorbed -gone-you won't find them . Occasionally though you might find a mummyfied feotus-a hard ,lumpy little baby bunny a bit like a large kidney bean . I believe the same can happen in most animals but pigs are prone to it.

I seen quite alot of these cysts this year, their rampant why do u think this is the case?. One suggestion i have is, might tie in with the weather and hunger.