Sentences with phrase «produces cecotropes»

I have had a house rabbit for 2 years but the last 6 months she constantly produces cecotropes throughout the morning till mid afternoon that she doesn't consume — she is consuming some but must be producing too many.

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

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Rabbits produce what are called cecotropes, a special dropping made from the gastrointestinal system that extracts the most important nutrients from their food.

This organ produces products called cecotropes, which are actually another type of feces that the rabbit then eats.

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.

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 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.

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

Cecotropes are a small, moist cluster of poops that a rabbits eats, normally as soon as they are produced.