How much?

[colleenbunny]

 If you have a rabbit that weighs 4-7 pounds, could you please take the poll?

 

 

EDIT: I meant to say month.

[colleenbunny]

If your rabbit eats more than 16 pounds, could you please specify how much it eats in a comment?

[bunnylova123]

That took me awhile to work out 

[Beka27]

A pound of a hay is a lot. It’s compressed and expands when opened. My two rabbits (4 pounds and 5.5 pounds) go through a 50 pound box about every 6 months, so divided out, that is approximately one pound per rabbit per week. There is, of course, some waste as well.

I can’t imagine a rabbit of any size eating too much more than that, let alone 16+ pounds of hay in a week. I don’t think that is physically possible.

Why are you asking in these specific amounts? What is your purpose in starting this poll?

[Beka27]

Posted By bunnylova123 on 04/23/2013 01:06 PM

That took me awhile to work out 

I’m guessing your rabbit DOES NOT eat between 10-15 pounds of hay a week.  That’s an incredible amount.  

[Bam]

If your rabbit eats more than 16 lbs of hay a week it’s not a rabbit, it’s a falsely labeled goat.

[Stickerbunny]

Erm. Well. My rabbits are 6lbs and 8lbs. Between them both, they eat a farm bale of hay (roughly 50lbs) every 2 months or so. There is a lot of waste though, they pick out what they like and trash the rest.

[Monkeybun]

My 4 together go through 25ish every month… So roughly 6 pounds a week?

[bunnylova123]

Beka27: she might not, I’ve no idea how much the bale of hay weighs so had to guess using info on the internet, anyway, she gets through a largish hay bale every 6 months or so, with left overs. She gets through a lot of grass too, I don’t know if that sort of counts, we haven’t had to mow the lawn for about a year because of my little lawn mower 

[MoveDiagonally]

Bunnylova, If we say a bale of hay is 40-50 pounds and your bunny goes through one every 6 months that would be 6.6-8.3 pounds a month or 1.65-2 pounds a week.

A bunny eating 16 pounds of hay a week would go through a 40-50 pound bale in less than a month. 

[bunnylova123]

Thankyou MoveDiagonally, that doesn’t make her sound like a small sheep 

[Beka27]

Bunnylova123, I figured it was a US > UK conversion issue! If my buns each ate 10 pounds of hay a week I wouldn’t be able to buy food for us! Lol!

Colleen, there is usually a good amount of waste with hay too, so maybe that was figuring into your measurements? Lots of people use it in the litter box so it gets thrown out.

[colleenbunny]

Okay thanks! The purpose was to figure out how much hay I would need to get. I found a 40-45ish pound bale of hay.

[Bam]

It takes my bun at least 3 months to finish a 1-kilo-bag of hay. 1 kilo is 2,2 pounds. My bun weighs 4,4 pounds (2,3 kg).

I still think 16 pounds of hay a week sounds like an impossible amout of hay for just one bunny. It would be like 35 litres of hay or more than 9 gallons. You’d need an extra room just to store the hay you need for a month!

40-45 pounds of hay would take my bun 5 years to finish and I don’t think hay should be stored for so many years, better to buy smaller packs more often. I buy organic hay in kilo-bags.

Sorry about the joke about the goat. It just seemed so preposterous with such a huge amount of hay for one little bunny!

[Beka27]

Ok, she edited the poll to say month! That sounds more reasonable… lol!

As I stated, my two buns go through 50 pounds in 6 months, which is about 8 pounds a month, 4 pounds per bunny.

Mine don’t eat as much as some other buns, but some eat even less. It really varies. This is why the big farm bales of horse-quality, grass hay are SOOO nice. There is so much hay, you’re not running out every week and having to run to the store for a tiny bag.

Hay keeps a very, very long time, as long as it’s stored in a very dry, pest-free area. You don’t want to store it air-tight, hay needs to breathe.

[Bam]

Oh, I didn’t see that. Again I’m sorry!

[colleenbunny]

It’s okay! I bet it was really hard to imagine any bunny eating 16 pounds of hay a week!

[Monkeybun]

Well, I’d change my vote then if I could. 25 pounds a month for the 4 of them

[Stickerbunny]

I wish my buns went through hay as slowly as yours do, Beka!

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