Fly maggots in rabbits dirty bedding?

Question

how do i get rid of them. i'm sure their maggots i just want to get rid of them with out harming my rabbit. thanks

Answer 1

clean the cage realy good.

Answer 2

take out ALL of the bedding and spray it out then put fresh bedding in

Answer 3

check your bunnies bum, maggots eat flesh - not p**p.

FLY STRIKE is when a fly lays its eggs on a bunnies bum. the maggots enter the bunny and start to eat it.. if their are maggots in the p**p its because bunny went bathroom at the right time..

make sure you clean bunnies cage and bottom.  

this was our bunny Marissa

http://www.picable.com/Nature/Animals/Fu...

fly strike killed her before we knew about it..

check her picture out, she was a cutey

Answer 4

Where are you keeping your rabbit? If it is outside, then I would possibly move the hutch/cage into a different location and keep it as clean as possible. Flys tend to feed on and lay their young upon things with a foul or dead odor which is most likely the waste of the rabbit. My cousin just got a rabbit that I saw for the first time yesterday and she is keeping it in the garage (that always has it's doors open). Although there were flys all over the bottom of the cage and in the food container. - She thinks you are only supposed to clean a rabbits cage once a week. Fact: Outside rabbits need their cages/hutches touched up daily to prevent things like this happening. Inside rabbits most likely need their cages cleaned once a week (if you are not using a litter box) and if you are using a litter box -inside rabbit or outside- you need to scoop what ever waste is in there just to keep your cage in tip top shape.

There are also things like deoterizers that you can purchase online or at your local pet store to keep down the smell of your rabbit's waste inlcluding: deoterizing treats that lower some of the acidity in your rabbit's urine so that it's urine won't smell so strong or bad, deoterizing litter/bedding for the cage that absorbs the smell of the waste to keep it smelling fresher in there and is not toxic to your rabbit, a kind of deoterizer that you can hang on the outside of the also keeps your cage smelling fresher, dry shampoos and sprays that you spray on your rabbit to keep it smelling fresh, wipes for your rabbit when go to the bathroom on themselves, sprays for the inside of the cage that is non-toxic to you or the rabbit that you can spray directly on the litter box -clean or not- to keep down the smell (or just to freshin up the smell in the cage) (( It is always best to clean out the cage and put new bedding and stuff in before you spray the freshining spray)).

A website that is great for these kind of product is:

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Default.cf...

^ just click on the "small pets" button at the top of the screen and there will be a list of supplies that are for rabbits and other pets there like litter, sanitation products, healthcare, etc.

Hope this helps!

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Answer 5

Take the rabbit out of the cage/hutch.  Clean everything well.  Use bleach diluted in water.  Rinse VERY WELL.  Let dry.  In the future change the bedding more frequently

Answer 6

...Clean it out.

It doesn't take a genius to figure it out.

Clean out the dirty bedding, including the maggots, use a pet-safe disinfectent to scrub the hutch, with your bunny running around outside, and put clean bedding in its place and don't let it get that bad again.

Simple.

Answer 7

Flies breed very quickly in warmer weather and maggots will be more abundant so put your rabbits somewhere safe, sweep, scrape and scrub everything down using hot water to rinse and let it dry. Put in nice clean bedding, water/food bowls and your rabbits.

Clean out twice a week with a really good scrub once a week.

In warm weather check how things are, at least once a day - better twice - when you water and feed them. Rabbits can get flystrike and are more likely to if their home isn't clean.

http://www.darwinvets.com/rabbits/flystr...

Good care and prevention is always better than cure.