Sentences with phrase «cecotrope in»

You will see the normal round, dry waste droppings and only the occasional formed cecotrope in the litter box or cage floor.

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Once fermented, it passes through the body in the form of a cecotrope — which the rabbit then eats to properly absorb its nutrients.

Grass hay should be available in your rabbit's cage at all times throughout the its life, because it provides much of the vitamins, minerals, protein, and fiber rabbits need and is the building blocks for the micro-organisms that create cecotropes.

Nonbreeding houserabbits do not need these extra calories and they produce most of their own vitamins through their cecotropes when provided a diet high in hay and fresh foods.

The nutrient - rich material is then excreted in the form of cecotropes (some people call these «night feces») which are eaten directly from the anus by the rabbit and redigested.

In addition, obese rabbits may have a hard time eating their cecotropes, which can result in matted fur and nutritional deficiencieIn addition, obese rabbits may have a hard time eating their cecotropes, which can result in matted fur and nutritional deficienciein matted fur and nutritional deficiencies.

In all of these cases, there is nothing wrong with the digestive system and normal amounts of cecotropes are being produced, it is just that the rabbits can not or will not turn around to ingest the cecotropes.

This is one reason why we try to avoid the use of Elizabethan collars in these species — it can prevent the ingestion of cecotropes, thereby altering the balance of gut flora and potentially resulting in gastrointestinal upsets.

In addition to the normal droppings produced (round and hard), which is waste material, their digestive system also produces cecotropes.

Rabbits that are too heavy can have problems reaching their anus in order to collect the cecotropes.

In a normal rabbit, insoluble fiber is fermented in the cecum and eventually released as cecotropeIn a normal rabbit, insoluble fiber is fermented in the cecum and eventually released as cecotropein the cecum and eventually released as cecotropes.

In a nutshell, the problem is not the production of soft stool (the waste material that makes up the round, dry droppings) but that the cecotropes, the nutrient - rich droppings produced by the cecum, are abnormally liquid and can not be eaten.

We will refer to this condition as intermittent soft cecotropes (ISC) in this article.

When the contents of the cecum are retained for longer than normal periods of time the cecotropes are eventually excreted in a more liquid state and it is impossible for the rabbit to eat them.

In order for the rabbit to get these nutrients, the cecotropes, including the organisms, must be eaten and digested.

The poop they consume is called «cecotropes,» which is different from the rabbit's regular poop in that it is softer and full of nutrients the rabbit needs.