Myxomatosis ??

[Tornado1979 145]

Noticed several rabbits this week on one of my permissions with swollen / dodgy eyes, I'm assuming it's Myxomatosis, what's your thoughts with pictures guys ??

 

Rabbit on picture taken out with a body shot.

 

 

 

[J Darcy 5,871]

I've noticed quite a lot too, but it's not quite your 'typical' myxi, the eyes on some have ulcers around them, but they can still see ok....maybe its some strain of myxi....poor bunnys.

[Tornado1979 145]

Total of 3 this week, some worst than one from this morn .... hopefully just limited to this area.

[bobcullen79 1,495]

Could it not be scarring after getting over myxi?

[neil cooney 10,416]

The scarring after myxi is usually black scars over the eyes and on top of the head and in the last few years I don't usually take out the myxy cases unless they're nearly dead as they might actually get over it. Thus carrying on resistance in the local population, in theory anyways.

One thing I noticed while shooting last year was that in areas with myxy there was a lot of rabbits sitting out in cover far away from any burrows and even though the myxy was rampant there's still healthy rabbit populations there now.

I'm more concerned about RHD than the myxy nowadays.

[The one 8,503]

It doesn't look like myxi it look like its blind looking at the pupil with myxi i would be looking for more scabbing over the eyes and head and ears

[Outlaw Pete 2,224]

Okay. I'll ask the billion dollar question that seems to have eluded everyone else here, to this point:

 

How was the Other eye? And, was that a doe or buck?

[Tornado1979 145]

Okay. I'll ask the billion dollar question that seems to have eluded everyone else here, to this point:

 

How was the Other eye? And, was that a doe or buck?

Other eye was just bulging but looked ok, and it was a buck mate.

[tom17 18]

Could have been fighting over mates with another buck and got stratched in the eye but that's just a suggestion.

[Outlaw Pete 2,224]

See? There we ~ very likely ~ have it. Injury, rather than illness. Possibly some trauma?

 

Anyway, the eye rim looks clean and healthy, overall. And ye might have checked the behind for redness. I understand that's actually one of the very first signs of myxi.

[The one 8,503]

Check the anus if its scabbed its a form of myxi

[budgie123 163]

It was explained to me that the original virus has mutated many times and when we see an out break of miximatosis it will be a mutated version that rabbits are not resistant to.

This is why we see the periodic outbreaks in a lot of areas.

 

The gentleman concerned stated that all rabbits will be resistant to the original strain.

[micky 3,325]

It was explained to me that the original virus has mutated many times and when we see an out break of miximatosis it will be a mutated version that rabbits are not resistant to.

This is why we see the periodic outbreaks in a lot of areas.

 

The gentleman concerned stated that all rabbits will be resistant to the original strain.

there were not many that resisted that original strain, and if it came in that form again I think the result would be the same too.

[The one 8,503]

I heard they where ten strains if thats right and they where on 9 or ten now and it was killing rabbits less and less the R.H.D. appears should we be surprised ?,.

[Rabbit Killer12 5]

Okay. I'll ask the billion dollar question that seems to have eluded everyone else here, to this point:

 

How was the Other eye? And, was that a doe or buck?