karelkees
Member
Hi guys,
hope you can give me some advice.
last saturday i picked up two 6 week old boys at a well known breeder. all the rats seemed healthy and well taken care for. they weigh 200gr.
when i came home with them i noticed a lot of sneezing. my other rats are also sneezing, time of the year, getting colder, heating on... and with the kittens i thought new home sneezes/stress.
my other boys i give thyme tea when sneezing and it helps them.
i gave this to the babies too, i also directly switched them from the homemade breedermix to science selective nuggets (i feed it dry, and twice a day i feed some soaked nuggets)
saturday afternoon and sunday morning i fed them a little bit almo nature wet food (salmon and chicken)
sunday morning i noticed a foul smell in the babies cage. poo everywhere and one of them had wet poo on his tail and butt.
i cleaned it with warn water and i immediately stopped the thyme tea. and changed to fresh water only.
this morning still smell and diarrhea (not just kitten stresspoo i think) but it does seem to be a little bit less wet, i'm not sure.
i cleaned the cage up and cleaned him up. both babies are gaining weight (i weigh them every morning) and are eating and drinking well and are playfull.
the sneezing (just dry sneezes) continue and the diarrhea also.
they are on the same bedding that the breeder used: back to nature.
i also see norml poo, only one of the kittens has diarhhea.
do you think the diarrhea is stress related? came from the thyme tea? from the food change (from the breeder mix to science selective)?
is there anything i cn do for him now? give him somtehing like probiotics? or just let him get used to his new food, feed only the nuggets and clean water and see if it clears up?
(and keep a good eye on health/behaviour/growing)
hope you can give me some advice.
last saturday i picked up two 6 week old boys at a well known breeder. all the rats seemed healthy and well taken care for. they weigh 200gr.
when i came home with them i noticed a lot of sneezing. my other rats are also sneezing, time of the year, getting colder, heating on... and with the kittens i thought new home sneezes/stress.
my other boys i give thyme tea when sneezing and it helps them.
i gave this to the babies too, i also directly switched them from the homemade breedermix to science selective nuggets (i feed it dry, and twice a day i feed some soaked nuggets)
saturday afternoon and sunday morning i fed them a little bit almo nature wet food (salmon and chicken)
sunday morning i noticed a foul smell in the babies cage. poo everywhere and one of them had wet poo on his tail and butt.
i cleaned it with warn water and i immediately stopped the thyme tea. and changed to fresh water only.
this morning still smell and diarrhea (not just kitten stresspoo i think) but it does seem to be a little bit less wet, i'm not sure.
i cleaned the cage up and cleaned him up. both babies are gaining weight (i weigh them every morning) and are eating and drinking well and are playfull.
the sneezing (just dry sneezes) continue and the diarrhea also.
they are on the same bedding that the breeder used: back to nature.
i also see norml poo, only one of the kittens has diarhhea.
do you think the diarrhea is stress related? came from the thyme tea? from the food change (from the breeder mix to science selective)?
is there anything i cn do for him now? give him somtehing like probiotics? or just let him get used to his new food, feed only the nuggets and clean water and see if it clears up?
(and keep a good eye on health/behaviour/growing)
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