I. Symptoms of Vitamin A Deficiency in Female Rabbits

1. Vitamin A deficiency in female rabbits may lead to blurring of the cornea of the eyes, white spots, and accumulation of purulent discharge around the eyes. At this time, if you can not get vitamin supplementation, its disease will further deteriorate, serious inflammation of the cornea and iris ciliary body, and even cause permanent blindness in female rabbits.

2. Vitamin A deficiency in female rabbits can cause infertility, and even if the female rabbit is successfully fertilized and becomes pregnant, there will be early fetal death, resulting in abortion, stillbirth, or embryonic deformities.

3. The lack of vitamin A in female rabbits can also lead to hydrocephalus in their litters, which is mainly due to the lack of vitamin A in female rabbits and the elevated hydraulic pressure in the brain marrow of female rabbits. Even if hydrocephalus does not occur in the rabbit's litter, the rabbit's growth will be retarded and some neurological symptoms, such as paralysis of the limbs and loss of control of the body will occur.

Second, how to prevent and control vitamin A deficiency in female rabbits

1, preventive measures: start from the source, give female rabbits adequate vitamin A or carrot supplementation; feed carotene-rich feed to female rabbits, such as feeding rabbits high-quality pasture, yellow corn, old pumpkin, yellow sweet potato and other feeds, which is to prevent vitamin A in rabbits a simple and more reliable way to prevent vitamin A in rabbits. When rabbits lack vitamin A, feeding rabbits a large number of carrots can effectively give rabbits to supplement, which is the prevention and treatment of vitamin A deficiency in female rabbits is more effective initiatives.

Three, drug supplementation of vitamin A:

(1)Give rabbits internal vitamin capsules, can be used in accordance with the use of medicines for rabbits to feed, generally 1 times a day to feed the service, a week of continuous feeding for a course of treatment, the mother rabbit eating a course of treatment, you need to stop a week after the service and then another course of treatment until the mother rabbit's physical condition to restore health.

(2) Give the mother rabbit oral cod liver oil for supplementation, each time to feed the rabbit 12ml, if it is mixed with the rabbit's feed, can be added according to the ratio of 0.2ml cod liver oil/kg of feed.

(3)Give intramuscular injection of vitamin A to female rabbits, and give female rabbits combined injection of 50,000 units of vitamin A and 5,000 units of vitamin D.

The above is the introduction of Dr. Paw Paw's symptoms of vitamin A deficiency in female rabbits and methods of prevention and treatment. Generally speaking, if the pet owner scientifically matches the rabbit's diet, the rabbit will not have a vitamin A deficiency, if the rabbit has a vitamin deficiency, it is necessary for the pet owner to adjust the rabbit's diet.