Fans of breeding rabbits know that these animals are prone to frequent infectious diseases that spread rapidly throughout the population and are fatal. The article will tell you how to treat a number of common infections in rabbits with the drug Amprolium and in what dosage it should be used.
Amprolium: what kind of drug
Amprolium is a white powder. The drug is intended for the treatment and prevention of infectious and parasitic diseases in animals. Before use, the powder must be added to the feed or dissolved in water in the proportion described in the instructions below.
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100 grams of powder contain 30 grams of the active substance - amprolium hydrochloride, which quickly penetrates into the cellular structures of parasites and disrupts their metabolism. This tool has four levels of safety, so it is not toxic to animals and, subject to the recommended doses, does not cause side effects. 
Up to 97% of the substance is excreted in the faeces, the rest is excreted by the kidneys through urine. The tool is packaged in plastic cans or bags of 0.5 kg, 1 kg and 5 kg.
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What is applied against
In rabbit breeding, Amprolium is used to treat the diseases described below.
Coccidosis
The disease affects the digestive system, due to which the absorption of nutrients from the food consumed becomes impossible, provokes blood loss and dehydration of the body. Also, due to coccidosis, the animal’s immunity is greatly reduced, which increases the risk of infection with other infections. With the wrong treatment or lack of it, the animals die. 
Trematodosis
The causative agents of trematodoses are trematodes (flukes). These are flat leaf-shaped helminths with two suckers on the body. When trimatodo invasions in rabbits, there is a loss of appetite or, conversely, appetite may increase, but they lose weight, their behavior becomes sluggish.
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The animal may suffer from diarrhea, constipation or constant alternation of these conditions. The hair on the body becomes disheveled and falls out.
Entomoz
Invasive disease caused by ectoparasites, such as fleas, lice, fly larvae, and lashes, which cause sifunculosis on the body of animals. As a result of their vital activity, the parasites cause itching and peeling of the skin, as well as baldness, anemia, and development and growth.
Cestodosis
The disease is caused by cestode larvae that infect the liver of a rabbit, resulting in complications such as peritonitis. Symptoms of this parasitic infection are the sluggish behavior of the animal and the lack of appetite, which leads to a weakening of the body. The death of animals from this disease is quite high. 
Eymerioz
Parasitic lesion, which is caused by the simplest genus eimeria. The disease has two forms - intestinal and hepatic, contributes to the depletion of the body and the breakdown of the digestive system. Sick rabbits lose weight, are oppressed, their appetite is disturbed, abdominal distention, diarrhea, yellowness of mucous membranes, cramps, dull and ruffled fur are observed.
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Because of the pronounced exhaustion, the animals mostly die, and the survivors become carriers of pathogens for 1 month and infect healthy individuals. 
Coxidia Eimeria-magna under the microscope
Instructions for use
"Amprolium" can be used for the prevention of the diseases described above, as well as for their immediate treatment. Next, we consider two ways to use it.
Important! It must be remembered that the aqueous solution of Amprolium should be the only source of drinking for rabbits during treatment.
With water
To prepare an aqueous solution of Amprolium, you need to act as follows:
- Prepare a container for water with a volume sufficient for the entire population of rabbits.
- For each liter of water, add 1 gram of Amprolium powder and mix thoroughly.
- The mixture is added to the drinkers with an independent water supply or poured manually.
- During the day, it is necessary to regularly pour water with medication into the drinkers.
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Mixing with feed
An alternative to an aqueous solution of Amprolium is the mixing of the drug with feed. To do this, usually use roots, hay, corn or concentrated feed. Next steps:
- Prepare a tank for food of sufficient volume.
- Pour dry food into it - as needed for all animals.
- Add to the food "Amprolium" and mix (1 gram of the drug per 1 kg of feed).
- Feed the animals.
Contraindications
Although Amprolium does not cause side effects in the rabbit, some contraindications to its use do exist:
- the drug should not be used with simultaneous antibiotic therapy or antioxidant;
- individual intolerance to drugs of the furan group;
- hypersensitivity to the drug;
- after 16 weeks of age at maintenance calves;
- renal and hepatic diseases;
- pathologies associated with difficult passage of feces and urine.
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These diseases that rabbits are prone to are quite serious. If we start their treatment in time with the use of the antibacterial drug Amprolium, then the problem can be successfully localized.
