Today, rabbit breeding is a very profitable business, and not very difficult. Breeding of fur-bearing animals, in principle, does not require special skills, but it happens that pets one after another mows the disease.
How to avoid mass mortality and strengthen the immunity of pets, let's look at this article.
Immune system function
No matter how clean the animals are, the mass of microorganisms, including the pathogens, is still present in the external environment. In addition, during the life of the rabbit may experience some kind of stress, caused, for example, by fear. Females spend a lot of energy on carrying and the birth of offspring, on his feeding. Shedding fur-bearing animals also does not pass for them completely. Thus, even the most healthy organism can be vulnerable to environmental aggression, stressful situations and the consequences of special conditions, diseases. 
Initially, nature laid protective functions that help to cope with all these troubles. If the rabbit's immune system does not cope with the task entrusted to it, it needs help with this. Otherwise, when attacking viruses or infections, the animal's body will not be able to fight the disease in full force, which can lead to death.
Of course, there are vaccines for animals against diseases, but even in the case of vaccination, a weak immune system will not fight off pathogens. Therefore, the health of pets is supported with the help of available means: natural vitamins and immunomodulators.
Did you know? Rabbit breeders were such famous personalities as Friedrich of Prussia and Napoleon III.
Strengthening with natural products
Natural sources of vitamins are vegetables, fruits and herbs. In the diet of fluffy animals should be present such products:
- carrots - 270 g;
- cabbage - 250 g;
- beets (fodder or sugar) - 250 g;
- radish tops - 20-30 g;
- beet tops (sugar sludge feed) - 250 g;
- celery, spinach, salad - up to 500 g;
- apples, young rhubarb - 70 g;
- branches of fruit trees and shrubs - up to 500 g;
- herbs (dandelion, clover, burdock, plantain, willow-tea) - up to 500 g
Important! Rabbits should not be given red beet: it leads to digestive problems.
Drug method
Medicines have many properties:
- strengthening the immune system;
- restoration of congenital pathologies of the body's defense system;
- post-vaccination adaptation;
- resistance to stress;
- reducing the risk of miscarriage in sukrolnyh females;
- reducing the risk of fetal hypertrophy;
- reducing the risk of stillborn baby rabbits;
- assistance in the stimulation of labor;
- hepatoprotective and detoxification action.
Find out what vitamins are necessary for rabbits.
Gamavit
The drug is administered in several ways: subcutaneously, intravenously and into the muscle, added to drink. The dosage for prophylaxis is 0.1 ml per kilogram of weight in the case of an injection, from 0.3 ml to 1 ml per day with watering. The course lasts up to four weeks, but the drug is not given daily, but one-three times a week. 
One week prior to the expected birth, pregnant females are injected up to 0.05 ml per pound of weight, which helps to ease labor activity.
Read more about the use of the drug Gamavit for rabbits.
Newborn weaker rabbits are injected according to this scheme: the first, third, fifth, seventh and twenty-first day after birth, at a dosage of 0.1 ml / kg.
Animals before participation in an exhibition or other event that may be stressful, make one injection at a dose of 0.1 ml / kg immediately before the event. If there are fears that the nervous system of an animal will undergo a strong nervous breakdown, then it is advisable to undergo a small course of injections: eight, six and four days before the day "X". 
Gamavit has a strong anti-toxic effect, in the treatment of poisoning, the dosage is increased (as far as the vet decides) and is administered intravenously, twice a day for five days.
Important! If a pet has suspected oncology, Gamavit cannot be used.
Imunofan
The tool is injected under the skin or into the muscle in a dosage of 1 ml:
- to prevent stress - twelve hours before the event;
- adaptation after vaccination - the dose is mixed with the vaccine;
- for synchronization of the sexual cycle and the health of the reproductive system - once with an interval of three-four months;
- immunity support and treatment of weakened young - three shots per week;
- treatment of viral infections - every other day, four injections;
- gastrointestinal tract diseases - three injections with an interval per day;
- against the plague - six shots at intervals of a day;
- from intrauterine infections - five shots at intervals of a day.
Katozal
Katozal, in addition to the listed properties of immunomodulators, has a significant impact on metabolic processes, improving digestion and motility of the intestines of animals. Injections are administered intravenously, intramuscularly or subcutaneously once a day at a dosage of from 0.5 to 2.5 ml, for five days.
For therapeutic purposes, the dose of catosal is halved, if necessary, repeat the course in two weeks. Catosal can be combined with therapeutic drugs that suppress pathogenic microorganisms. 
Fosprenil
Fosprenil, in addition to injections and oral administration, can be used for washing mucous membranes with infections of the eyes and nose. The dose of the drug is 0.05 cm3 / kg of weight according to this scheme:
- for the prevention of disease - once a day from five to fourteen days;
- post-vaccination adaptation — administered with the vaccine, but in different syringes;
- rabbits for weight gain - along with food for a week;
- for therapeutic purposes, depending on the disease, the course lasts from two weeks to a month.
It is useful to know why rabbits grow poorly and do not gain weight, as well as how much rabbits should weigh.
Possible reaction to the drug - rapid heartbeat, lethargy, fever. The phenomena pass by themselves in a couple of days. 
Evinton
Homeopathic solution for intramuscular or subcutaneous injections. Used to strengthen the immune system, as well as for medicinal purposes in autoimmune diseases, as a prevention of viruses and injections used a course of five to fourteen days, one-twice a day in a dose of 0.1 ml / kg of live weight.
Did you know? In the US, there are a number of laws relating to rabbits: you can not sell babies under eight weeks; Only a person over 18 can buy an animal; When purchasing an animal (in individual states), a police certificate is required stating that there is no criminal liability for cruelty to animals.
Elvestin
Elvestin is used orally for the prevention of gastrointestinal diseases, during pregnancy, for rabbits on artificial feeding, adaptation after vaccination and deworming. 
The dose per day with food is 2-3 drops per individual, within two weeks. To summarize: ecology, stress, housing change, diet change, exhibition - all of these factors can weaken the protective functions of the animal. Only the owner and his attention depend on the health, ability to reproduce offspring and the life of the Fuzzies.
