RESUMEN

The aims of this project were to determine mortality rate and aetiology of losses in suckling rabbits during the first 14 days of life. Post-mortem examinations were done on 1096 siblings from 8 conventional farms. Mortality rates varied from 0 to 17.0%. Main death causes were non-infectious and included stillbirth (13.9%), weakness due to reduced birth weight (3.0%), starvation (11.6%), runting (11.6%), cannibalism (0.5%) and scattering (7.9%). The last four causes mainly attributed to insufficient nursing by the doe. Only 21.8% of the losses were of infectious aetiology.

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Animales Lactantes , Causas de Muerte , Conejos , Animales , Canibalismo , Femenino , Muerte Fetal/epidemiología , Muerte Fetal/veterinaria , Masculino , Sepsis/mortalidad , Sepsis/veterinaria , Inanición/mortalidad , Inanición/veterinaria , Suiza/epidemiología , Heridas y Lesiones/mortalidad , Heridas y Lesiones/veterinaria