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fleas on rabbits

  • 21-02-2021 7:30pm
    #1
    slipperyox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 598 ✭✭✭


    Got a rabbit for the pot this morning, and have never seen such a parasite load.

    Anyway, put it in a bin bag and when I got home, pumped the bag full of CO2.

    left it for an hour, and when I opened bag, all fleas dead. I'm sure a freezer would do the same, but just putting it out there...


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  • #2
    homerhop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭homerhop


    Yup, even if you had hung it for a few hours they would bugger off, won’t live on a corpse


  • #3
    cookimonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭cookimonster


    homerhop wrote: »
    Yup, even if you had hung it for a few hours they would bugger off, won’t live on a corpse

    Unfortunately this doesn't run to Deer Ticks, little feckers survive for days and into weeks on a carcass.


  • #4
    slipperyox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 598 ✭✭✭slipperyox


    Recent papers in journals have researched how fleas in rabbits die in low level warrens where CO2 Pools.
    Though other areas in the warren, allow the fleas/nymph/eggs to survive the winter..


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