This is a long story that I will make short. We had dog issue (not ours) at our house which tramatized are beautiful mini rex which caused here to over eat and be aggresive. Since then we have built new pens and she is much more calm now and is no longer over eating. Since she has lost weight her skin looks loose. what can we do to tighten her up?
How old is the doe? As we age, most of us, rabbits included, lose a degree of tone in muscle and skin tissue. Weight gain and loss contribute to this.
If your rabbit is relatively young, proper diet and perhaps allowing her to run on the ground for some excercise, may help. If you want to build firm flesh, steam rolled barley (just a pinch) added to the top of her daily ration should help. Make sure she has plenty of fresh water and a good grass hay 2 or 3 times per week.
Normally, the type of stress you are referring to would cause a weight
loss. Regardless, I would follow the above guidelines and feed just what your rabbit will clean up within 12 hours, making sure the pellets are of good quality and at about 16% protein.
Charlcie Gill
Zodiac Rabbitry
Astoria, OR
http://www.zodiacsatins.com
If you allow her to free feed some will overeat- I had many does get loose skin and become overweight- bucks actually make a better show rabbit
I know that in our rex does they get what we call a skirt around their back section... it\'s just like the dewlap but it\'s around their bottom.
Don\'t know if this is what\'s going on with your rabbit but thought that I\'d share just incase it is.
Yes it\'s a skirt. What do you do about a skirt?
There\'s nothing that you can do about them getting a skirt it just happens just like their dewlap...
Breed those does- to a buck with muscle and nice and firm skin