Healthy Stool

Pictured on the left are lovely normal fecal pellets.  The key to healthy stools starts with lots of fresh timothy or orchard grass hay!  The more fiber, the better.  If you feed to many carbohydrates,  the cecum may start to function improperly.  This can lead to serious health problems.  The normal, healthy rabbit produces 90 to 150 healthy pellets a day!

The stool pictured to the right is normal, healthy night feces.  Rabbits are coprophagic.  This means they eat these special healthy cecal pellets to receive complete nutrition.  If you are finding these uneaten pellets around your rabbit, it can indicate health problems.

Pictured below are two pictures of mucousy stool.  The first is from a hospitalized rabbit starting to recover from a very sick cecum.  Some times, these are the first stools that we see with recovery.  Sometimes the are simply small and multiple.  The rabbit is not considered healthy until the large healthy stools pictured above return.

Clear mucous may be produced with serious cecal problems.  These rabbits need to be in the hospital!

Of course any time your rabbit stops producing stool, it is considered an emergency!  Please call Chicago Exotics at 847-329-8709 if your rabbit is experiencing stool problems.

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