14 DISEASES OF RABBITS 



hutches should first of all be scrubbed out with 

 boiling water and strong lye, then rinsed with 

 boiling water and finally dried with a gasoline 

 blow torch. Particular care should be taken 

 to scrape out aU cracks and crannies and to 

 ensure that the boiling water penetrates to all 

 these recesses. 



Rabbits showing the slightest sign of illness 

 should not be purchased and all additions to 

 the rabbitry should be quarantined for at least 

 fifteen days. 



Contagion may be introduced by bucks used 

 for service and it is advisable to make sure that 

 the buck is free from any form of disease or 

 parasitic affection, and also that the rabbitry 

 from which he comes or to which the doe is 

 sent, likewise has a clean bill of health. 



It should be noted that a very large per- 

 centage of adult rabbits are carriers of coc- 

 cidiosis, even if showing no symptoms of dis- 

 ease and on that account it is undesirable that 

 young and adult rabbits inhabit the same hutch 

 or run and for the same reason that the hutches 

 be kept free of accumulations of feces. 



In shipping rabbits for show or sale, care 

 should be taken to provide a box with sufficient 

 room and ventilation and to make sure that 

 points of nails or tacks with which the labels 

 are attached, do not project on the inside, as 

 this is frequently a source of injury. The bot- 



