Rabbit update... and questions... and PICS!

[cali]

Kari eats pellets and veggies, she loves her pellets but I dont believe in making any animals eat the same thing day in and day out of their whole life, my dogs are on a RAW diet, and my gerbil get a mixed diet, and my guinea pigs get the same as kari. K ari will not eat pellets only lol if she gets pellets and no veggies for a while she goes on a hunger strick and refuses to eat her pellets at all she got so skinny one time it scared me, I had to feed her oats, and cerial, and berries for a little while then slowly start adding the pellets back in because she went completly off her pellets no way am I doing that again! she is gonna keep getting her veggies and greens etc.. I never want her to scare me like that again! I swear she refused to eat for like 2 weeks, only smudge(her guinea pig cagemate) was eating, however as long as she gets her veggies she happily eats her pellets

[wolfie]

Thanks for the information everyone!

Yes, he's an opal, and he's 8 weeks old. And he's tiny - he was the runt.

Oh... I'm confused with all the feeding info. He has pellets now, and lots of alfalfa hay. I read that you shouldn't give babies veggies - so I was waiting until he got older.

[legendrabbitry]

Exactly Snuggles, a lot of the HRS stuff is false info. I said it CAN cause diarreha but maybe that is not the case with your rabbit. I have 30 rabbits and all of them get Purina Show Formula pellets with papaya tablets every day for the Jersey Woolies and a handful of grass hay(not alfalfa) every week. Oatmeal and pineapple are much better and healthier treats than veggies. Please check out the forum and also Rabbit Web Forums. Check out the Purina Mills web-site for feed info Purina Mills. Also ARBA has links to great sites. And Usagi No Tsukiyo Rabbitry. If you want to be completely safe, since you Opal Mini Rex hasn`t had any veggies at all yet I recommend you not give him any veggies at all. Stick with the pellets. Alfalfa works but grass hay if the best.

[legendrabbitry]

Oh Hey "snuggles" I didn`t realize you were Lana from all of those other forums

[Snuggles]

Snuggles is my holland lop bunny

[Snuggles]

Originally posted by legendrabbitry
Exactly Snuggles, a lot of the HRS stuff is false info. I said it CAN cause diarreha but maybe that is not the case with your rabbit. I have 30 rabbits and all of them get Purina Show Formula pellets with papaya tablets every day for the Jersey Woolies and a handful of grass hay(not alfalfa) every week. Oatmeal and pineapple are much better and healthier treats than veggies. Please check out the forum and also Rabbit Web Forums. Check out the Purina Mills web-site for feed info Purina Mills. Also ARBA has links to great sites. And Usagi No Tsukiyo Rabbitry. If you want to be completely safe, since you Opal Mini Rex hasn`t had any veggies at all yet I recommend you not give him any veggies at all. Stick with the pellets. Alfalfa works but grass hay if the best.

100% agreed

[wolfie]

Okay, thanks Lana and Anna. ^_^

[chrissycat21]

If you do put your rabbit's cage on the floor, make sure Daphney can't hurt the rabbit.

If you do feed him alfalfa hay, I heard that you should switch to timothy after one year because alfalfa has too much calcium.

I don't think he should live on completely pellets. Mix it up with some greens and some pellets. But make sure not to give him too many!

-Chrissy

[Snuggles]

If you do feed him alfalfa hay, I heard that you should switch to timothy after one year because alfalfa has too much calcium.

it has too much protien IF you feed a alfalfa feed- i would use grass hay though, cheaper & not as much wasted.