Nutrient-packed dietary items essential to your companionĪ rabbit may produce cecotropes at various times during the day, and this periodicity may vary from rabbit to rabbit.
In fact, rabbits deprived of their cecotropes will eventually succumb to malnutrition.
The rabbits blissful expression when she's engaging in cecotrophy (the ingestion of cecotropes) will tell you that she finds this anything but disgusting. How does the rabbit get those essential nutrients? She eats the cecotropes as The cecum contains a natural community ofīacteria and fungi that provide essential nutrients and may even protect the rabbit from potentially harmful pathogens. The latter are produced in a region of the rabbit'sĭigestive tract called the cecum, a blind-end pouch located at the junction of the small and large intestines. Unlike most other mammals, lagomorphs (including domestic rabbits) produce two types of droppings,įecal pellets (the round, dry ones you usually see in the litterbox) andĬecotropes. You should consider it a life-threatening emergency requiring immediate veterinary care.
If you have an infant or juvenile rabbit suffering from runny stool, The Mystery of Rabbit Poop by Dana Krempels, Ph.D.
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