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*Grooming or idiopathic overgrooming
 
*Grooming or idiopathic overgrooming
 
*Displacement activity in rabbits that can’t groom – automutilation
 
*Displacement activity in rabbits that can’t groom – automutilation
 
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*Hair loss due to pseudo- and actual pregnancy is frequently encountered  in rabbits due to nest-building activity and obviously requires no treatment. It is self-inflicted.
Hair loss due to pseudo- and actual pregnancy is frequently encountered  in rabbits due to nest-building activity and obviously requires no treatment. It is self-inflicted.
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*Alopecia in rabbits may be due to dietary causes (fibre or magnesium deficiency, or both). To correct magnesium deficiency, the addition of magnesium oxide at 0.25% to the diet may be required.
 
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Alopecia in rabbits may be due to dietary causes (fibre or magnesium deficiency, or both). To correct magnesium deficiency, the addition of magnesium oxide at 0.25% to the diet may be required.
      
"Hair eating" localised mainly on the head was recorded by Morisse 1978 in groups of rabbits with experimentally-induced colibacillosis and this should be remembered by the clinician confronted with this clinical sign in pet rabbits that have received oral antibiotics especially those with a reasonable spectrum of activity against gram-positive organisms.
 
"Hair eating" localised mainly on the head was recorded by Morisse 1978 in groups of rabbits with experimentally-induced colibacillosis and this should be remembered by the clinician confronted with this clinical sign in pet rabbits that have received oral antibiotics especially those with a reasonable spectrum of activity against gram-positive organisms.
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#reducing the light intensity (Okerman 1994).  
 
#reducing the light intensity (Okerman 1994).  
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Fur Loss in Vent area is usually due to  discharges from the vent:
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Fur loss in Vent area is usually due to  discharges from the vent:
 
*Urinary overflow
 
*Urinary overflow
 
*Treponema cuniculi
 
*Treponema cuniculi
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