Dutch Rabbit / female discharge?

Question
My daughters female Dutch Rabbit named Grace is 3 yrs old this April. She is a house rabbit who stays loose in half of the house with a baby gate keeping her from the living room and upstairs.  We also have a Guinea Pig names Ziggy for my other daughter, these two pets were bought together and have been raised together.  Ziggy does stay in a cage but we let him out for about an hour or two in the evening and gate the two of them off in our large bathroom to play and run together.  She has unlimited Timothy Hay, water and pellets.  But she has been treated for Urine scald about a year and a half ago and put on anitbiotics by our rural vet who willingly admits she knows very little about rabbits. Some time passed and I noticed her sitting with her bottom up off the ground kinda hiked in air and she would smell.  So I started bathing her again and called the vet and we got her some medicine like we had done prior.  But the round didn't work this time.  So I layed her on her back and looked at her and it seems to have a small mucusy discharge and smell and kind of irritated.  Do you think she has a female infection? Or maybe a stink gland infected?  Also her poop is mushy sometimes but not always, that seems to be an off and on thing and I first thought it was related to the other but now I think they are two seperate things.  Can you help?

Answer
Dear Suzy,

Unspayed, unbred female rabbits have a very high risk of uterine cancer and pyometra (infection of the uterus).  Spaying a female rabbit while she's still relatively young (as your bunny is) is very important to prevent these potentially life-threatening disorders.

If there is a smell, this suggests infection.  I would certainly try to get her to a good rabbit vet:

www.rabbit.org/vets

for examination, diagnosis and treatment.

If you have no choice but the rural vet, then please ask her if she can spay a rabbit, even if she has to consult with other vets online to learn the best methods for this, as well as safe anesthesia (usually isoflurane or sevoflurane).  

Another possibility is a urinary tract problem:

www.bio.miami.edu/hare/urinary.html

or possibly a GI tract problem, as she has mushy poop.  But this is usually secondary to another health problem.  Please also see:

www.bio.miami.edu/hare/poop.html

I hope this helps get you started.

Dana