Sentences with phrase «normal cecotropes»

The treatment of ISC is based first on a serious diet restriction to grass hay, which acts to return the GI tract to normal, and secondly a gradual reintroduction of additional foods after normal cecotropes are produced for at least a week.

Vitamin supplementation should be short term and need not continue once the pet is on a healthy diet and is producing normal cecotropes.

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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.

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

Unlike the normal droppings, cecotropes are not waste material.

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

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

Vitamin C should also be discontinued once the cecotropes return to normal.

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.

While owners are often disturbed when they see their pets eating their own feces, realize that cecotrope ingestion is a normal and important...

Cecotropes are soft feces that are nutrient - rich and are passed out of the body like normal stool but then are re-ingested later by the rabbit so that important nutrients can be reabsorbed.