Rabbit disease or parasite? What is it?

[Oldbloke]

I took the Brno out for a run last night on the bunnies. The first one for the evening was an old buck and I was in the process of cleaning it for Charlie my daughters dog when I noticed what looked like a local infection in the form of a liquid filled sack or abscess inside the back legs.

The fluid was an amber colour and after I drained it I saw some jelly like substance along with what appear to be "eggs". Reminded me of sago actually. I saw something along these lines once many years ago.

Does anyone know what it is? Needless to say the dog will not be eating this one.

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[headwerkn]

Can't say I've ever seen it before but it looks like some kind of cyst. You probably did the old bunny a favour.

[Oldbloke]

Obviously not liver fluke. (always in the liver) Beginning to think it is hydatid, but that would be unusual as it was in the leg, not an organ.

[petemacsydney]

it'll be fine mate!!!! just chuck it in the slow cooker with a few herbs and spices and before you know it.. you'll be throwing up with one foot in the grave...

oh and don't worry, the dog will take just one sniff and smell it's all just plain wrong...

[tom604]

i have seen the amber fluid sac,i just cut it out and cook for the dogs, but not the white lumps? dogs are still alive

[VICHunter]

I think you're going to find that's the beginning of tape worm (or some other kind of worm).

Some of them start as cysts about the size of a pea full of fluid.

They can transfer to your dogs too, so good call not feeding it to them.

[botfour]

Guuck.

Need a warning in the title for these things

[ghunther]

That's the kind of thing that makes me edgy about eating the wild ones.

[mikor]

it'll be fine mate!!!! just chuck it in the slow cooker with a few herbs and spices and before you know it..

I've been testing the cook it for ages method lately.

Had some steak that was 2 days past best and did a curry cooking it for hours.

Did the same for 3 days.

Going to continue to find the limit, will stop when I feel crook and knock it back a day

[portph]

Good luck with that Mikor.

If we never hear from you again we know you went 1 day too far

[tom604]

i cook all my dog food(rabbits/goats) that should kill all the worms? yes ?no? i eat a bit myself and don't have a ichy ring and im not losing weight damm lazy tape worms

[Westy]

i cook all my dog food(rabbits/goats) that should kill all the worms? yes ?no? i eat a bit myself and don't have a ichy ring and im not losing weight damm lazy tape worms

Yerr but it made you look like a frog with a SKS!!!!!!!

[tom604]

HEY !! back off Santa,, i look cool,,,ive got a hat and sunnies

[Oldbloke]

Some info here but dosnt give me a definitive answer.

http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv ... id_disease

http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv ... s/Pinworms

Perhaps it was eggs of thread worm as it was in the crutch area of the leg, not far from the anus/lower intestine but had some how found its way into the muscle/tissue?

[chickapow]

Aaaaand I'm never eating rabbit again.

[Westy]

HEY !! back off Santa,, i look cool,,,ive got a hat and sunnies

Santa with a shotgun!!!Come here little frog I've got something for you!!!!

[huccl]

Santa with a shotgun!

Then he really did get my letter!

[Westy]

And guess what he did with it ????


http://youtu.be/7Z3Wm0Frn8Y

[huccl]

LMFAO.

[Jeff303]

Always been told it was hydatid. I turf any that have it

[deanp100]

It would have gone through a few life cycles by now!,

[wrenchman]

rabbits get them here to in the states ihave only seen it a couple of times its more common in the warmer states i have been told to wait for it to get colder that it kills it
if you want to eat them

[YoungBuck]

Looks like some sort of infection the bunny had. Best not to pass it over to Charlie.
To me that looks similar to what my cousin had once, except he had it towards the back of his throat, they looked like white little suction cap things similar to the pic. Turned out it was from some sort of infection.

[safeshot]

It could be Hydatid. A nasty parasite. Don't eat and ont give to cat or dogas they will succumb toit. Burn in your back yards fire or bury. Cheers

[Elmer]

Its a Tapeworm cyst, those little white balls are the the first segment ( or head) of the tapeworm. I found one in a bunny a few weeks back...disgusting bloody things.

[Oldbloke]

Its a Tapeworm cyst, those little white balls are the the first segment ( or head) of the tapeworm. I found one in a bunny a few weeks back...disgusting bloody things.

Pretty gross. Have seen perhaps a dozen over the years and always toss them. I'll take your word for it. Especially when you see the potential outcome.

Www.discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/03-hi ... -the-brain

[Rikta]

yeah kill it with fire before it lays eggs........ Literally!

[marksman]

www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/cond ... id-disease

what I have always believed it to be, usually found around the paunch in a blister like sack of clear fluid the eggs look like rice
its the reason why I always skin rabbits before feeding them to dogs

[Rikta]

I have not heard of a case of Hydatid over here in WA for a very long time, what country was this rabbit on? farming land? if so what farming? do they drench/backline and inoculate?

[Oldbloke]

Shot on a hobby farm in August. Few sheep & goats. South West Victoria. Don't know if they drench. I'd say unlikely.

Pretty old thread.