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Light Coloured Rabbit Livers.


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Ok Ive been ferreting sheep fields today and had all the usual problems with tapeworms. I usualy freeze these and feed them to the ferrets. But whats realy worrying me is every rabbit I caught had a very light pink almost white patchy liver. I assume this is liver fluke, will freezing kill fluke or should I bin the lot to be safe?

 

Also when I was peeing the rabbits 1 of them had very dark orange urine and anothers urine looked like pure blood. Im thinking its best to chuck the lot out just wanted to get another opinion or 2 before I waste them.

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It was just like blood on the paper I had in the hutch search it on google

Thanks peter just googled it and it seems the urine can turn blood red dependant on what the rabbit has fed on. The livers look terrible though so Ive chucked the lot out just in case its something that could make the ferrets ill.

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You will notice a lot more rabbits with red urine when there has been prolonged snow or heavy frosts when the rabbits have been feeding on young trees and bark and tree roots.atb

So it is to do with diet. Amazed Ive never noticed it before. Cheers

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hard winter of 2010 they were living of bramble leaves bark of hedge rows , they were red urine in snow with die , it was that bad they were running along top of hedges snow being that deep ,same with hares all they had was hedge rows to eat and straw

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