Bunny cecotropes
Ok, kind of a weird question 😅 I have a dwarf Netherland bunny (flat-faced), and I know those little bunnies can sometimes have difficulty reaching to eat their cecotropes. Every morning when I wake up, there are poop stains on his little blanket or mattress. Not actual poop, more like stains.
He also seems to have pretty bad balance 🤣 I finally saw him eat one of his poops, and it looked like it was a rather difficult process for him to reach it. He was almost falling over and losing balance. That said,is poop was actually pretty mushy, not in a grape-like shape like my other bunny’s it was more like a big clump of poop, but he ate it, so I assume it was really a cecotrope, just with a weird consistency.
Is that normal? Or are cecotropes really supposed to be in a grape-like shape? I’m wondering because my other bunny doesn’t leave stains like he does when eating them. I’m wondering if maybe he’s squishing them while trying to eat them because he loses balance and has some difficulty reaching them.
Just trying to see if anyone has had a similar experience. I could try talking to a vet, but this is really his only issue, and I don’t want to spend a fortune just for the vet to tell me it’s normal 😅