eggs inside of a rabbits leg???

[foxtails 272]

i was gutting a rabbit yesterday and saw a bubble of water on the side of the rabbits hind leg about an inch in diamitter anyway i burst the bubble and found about 30 white eggs inside, this threw me back,as iv never seen this before, has anyone ever come accross this? what could of it have been? there was even a ditch in the muscle where this was ??

[Guest thebigdog]

worms

[BEARINATOR 2,872]

As Bigdog said tapeworm eggs

[johnrthrfrd 223]

tape worm cysts I always put rabbit in the freezer for a couple of weeks before I feed it to the dogs to kill them

Edited December 6, 2012 by johnrthrfrd

[Qbgrey 4,171]

yup tapeworm cysts,id be ditching it.

[Jamie m 668]

Aliens mate or goverment spies : /

[foxtails 272]

thanks guys,,never seen anything like that before first of all i though it was water where id been washing it, but after i had a proper look,and burst it there were eggs i was gonna keep it in the freezer for a few weeks then feed it to the dogs or ferrets but thinking about it now theres plenty of rabbit about its not worth the risk of them catching somthing, cheers guys atb fts

[SINDASOX 256]

Like this were they..... ....certainly puts you off doing a stew. I found a load once totally embedded in the back leg when i was chopping rabbits up for the ferrets and dogs.

 

 

 

 

 

SINDASOX

[foxtails 272]

yes thats the ones, the ones i found were right in the leg, imbedded , some of the muscle was missing, an hole in the leg where the eggs were, its nuts really, the rabbit must of been uncomfortable for a while, and yes there were loads of sheep and cattle around, just never seen nothing like it.

[The one 8,514]

Tape worm cyst try cut round it with out bursting it the next time mate

[moonlighter 1,164]

I've seen a lot like that this year, but previously I've never really noticed them before.

[Jamie m 668]

http://emob946.photobucket.com/albums/ad306/jamiem1/photo-189.jpg

[inan 841]

  On 06/12/2012 at 18:26, foxtails said:

yes thats the ones, the ones i found were right in the leg, imbedded , some of the muscle was missing, an hole in the leg where the eggs were, its nuts really, the rabbit must of been uncomfortable for a while, and yes there were loads of sheep and cattle around, just never seen nothing like it.

Cut them out, 3 weeks in the freezer kills them if you feed raw.

[ferret100 47]

Mmmmn, yummy. The pic looks very much like tapeworm cyst/larval stage of Multiseps Serialis. The mature form is found in the intestine of dogs (primary host) and the fluid sac/larvae/cyst/coenurus is found in the subcutaneous tissues of rabbits (intermediate host).

 

The white lumps are larval tapeworm heads, not eggs. The cysts/larvae don't damage the rabbits muscle tissue, if you remove the sac and cook the meat it's even fit for human consumption, you could even cook and eat the larvae too if you fancied, the only known way for humans to contact these species is ingesting eggs from infected Canid carnivorves (dogs/foxes) faeces, nice.

 

Problem lies when dogs kill and eat infected bunnies, then dogs develop the adult tapeworm. Some attempts have been tried to infect ferrets with the larval cestodes but failed, suggesting these species don't develop from larvae into adults in ferts either. Wouldn't take the risk though, remove any visible cysts and cook the meat as there may be others lurking about, sure the dogs or fert will eat cooked meat eitherway. ATB.

[Adam_Chuck 256]

Got 1 with a cyst a couple of weeks ago just ditched it for the fox. Hvent got the freezer space to rabbits to lie there for 2 weeks