What Do you feed your Rabbit

[3muttsandaboston]

A rabbits diet should consist of 80% hay 10% veggies and 10% pellets.

[buttercup132]

A rabbits diet should consist of 80% hay 10% veggies and 10% pellets.

No actually, pellets are just compacted alfalpha which isn't supposed to be fed to adult rabbits.
Pellets were made back in the day for rabbits meat farmers because they didnt feed them veggies and hay so it was faster to just feed them pellets. Plus they wanted fat rabbits which is what alfalpha does.
Pellets have no real nutrition.
Where did you hear that statement from?

[3muttsandaboston]

I have owned rabbits for several years and have learned that from many rabbit message boards and websites. Not all pellets are just hay. Mine has other stuff in it to. My rabbit isn't fat at all.
http://www.rabbit.org/faq/sections/diet.html

[zippy-kat]

Pellets can be made from timmy hay, too.

Piper gets timmy hay (sometimes mixed with coastal or another grass hay), Zupreem pellets, veggies (primarily cilantro - his fav), and limited fruits.

[Suki Wingy]

When I can get it, he really does best on Heinold 15-20 Show Formula pellets. He's a really picky eater, though. He only likes really rich hay like alfalfa, but I don't let him have a lot. He also enjoys dried berries as treats and I suspect my sisters sneak him a little too many.

[Karen]

Miss Hoppy has never eaten pellets. The day we brought her home, we put some in a dish, she sniffed them and dumped the dish out and looked at us as if to say ... "well? where's the food?"

As a baby bunny she got alfalfa hay - and once full grown it's been Timothy hay.

Besides that, she eats:

parsley
dandelion greens
dandelion flowers in season
junior baby bok choy (regular bok choy is vehemently refused)
chicory
dill
radish tops - she usually just leaves the radishes, sometimes will nibble a teensy bit, but usually not
there is usually a carrot in some stage of being consumed around, she used to love the carrot tops, now she's 50/50 about them ...
every once in a while lacinto kale - but that's high in potassium, so she cannot have it very often
an ear of[COLOR= GoldenRod] corn[/COLOR], complete with the husks can keep her busy for days - some husks she eats right away, some she peels of so the get dried and crunchy, then eats them, and she does eat the corn kernels as well
frisee - though she likes to let it get good and brown and disgusting before she eats it - Paul calls this "the bacon effect"
every once in while some other greens, like she had some sage today
basil
she gets seed treats, likes those, but like all treats, they are given sparingly, these days she gets a salted peanut sometimes when I am having some

and of course her very important three raisins every night at 11!

and the bark off yummy sticks Grandpa finds her

That's pretty much her diet, and she is 10 1/2 years old, and after her treatment for her thymoma this fall, she is back to her energetic self, too! You try getting just three raisins out of a box that is in a ziplock bag, when you have a rabbit who has hopped up on the couch and then climbed up you, pushing her face in yours and saying "Raisin! Where's my Raisin???!!!!"

[Argranade]

I give Bullet pellets & since he's lazy I try not to give him too many. So I guess when he's about 5 or 6 months old I can just give him veggies & hay all the time with maybe a few pellets once a week, I want him as healthy as possible.

Wow Miss Hoppy sounds like a Queen in your house Karen lol.