The
Vet
Phone 01254 53622
The VETerinary Health Centre,
Daisy St.
Blackburn,
Lancashire, BB1 5EW
serving Blackburn, Darwen, Accrington, Rishton, Great Harwood,
Clayton-le-Moors, Oswaldtwistle, Langho, Whalley and Clitheroe
USA:
U.S. Dermatologist Lowell Ackerman has discovered
and used pictures from this website in his new book on Veterinary Dermatology
book
Australia Parts of our website are now being used for teaching vet nurses on
Gilles Plains Campus
JAPAN:
Our Firework Phobia leaflet is now in use in
Japan!! (Download
Japanese version)
In warm weather flies will lay
eggs on the skin of rabbits with dirty bottoms.
The eggs hatch out and in just 2 or 3 days hundreds of maggots are eating
the skin and flesh of the live rabbit.
Lower back of rabbit with flystrike. Loads of very active
maggots.
So active we could hear them scurrying about and munching.
The poor rabbit simply sat there quietly distressed.
A rabbit in a hutch will not show signs of fly strike until the situation is
hopeless.
In summer check your rabbit's rear end daily for signs of fly strike. If the
bottom is not clean see the vet for urgent advice.
The fly strike in this rabbit was too advanced to treat.
Sadly we had to euthanase him.
