My bunny doesn’t seem to be drinking much?

[Auburnie]

I’ve had her a little over a week now and introduced some leafy greens to her a few days back and she’s had some every day.

She loves them, loves her hay, seems to be eating fine although she hasn’t completely been finishing her serving of pellets. 
She’s pooping fine, believe me, and acting fine and as crazy as ever.
The only other thing i can think of is her ears have been pretty cold. But i’m unsure if it’s because my rooms been pretty cold the last few days in my room. We keep it about 65 and heat doesn’t get into my room that well, especially when I have her out and have to close my door. So i’ve had the small heater on in here the past two days in case she’s just been cold. 

is she drinking and eating less because of her greens?
She’s still eating plenty hay.

[BabyBoy]

She’s fine as long as she eating hay! I can barely get my bunny to eat hay! I feed him a mix of pellets with the colorful rabbt treats, and now he is VERY picky! He will only eat the colorful ones; and very few brown pellets. Instead of eating his hay, he prefers the natural grass in my backyard. I don’t feed him leafy greens, which I should since its very healthy for them. But basically, stick to mainly hay, and ONLY brown pellets food, and give her leafy greens & treats when you want her attention

[StachesMommy]

65 degrees is more than fine for a bunny. It’s the heat you need to worry about actually. I wouldn’t be worried if your bunny doesn’t finish her pellets. As long as she’s eating well and all that other good stuff. My bunny never finishes her serving of pellets. Bunnies regulate their temperature through their ears. My bunny has warm ears usually but the other day her ears were cold. She seemed fine and today they are warm again. If the ears are very hot or very cold that signals sickness/fever or drop in temperature. But warm and cool is normal. Do you know how much she drinks regularly? Some days my bunny only drinks 6oz of water and other days she drinks 8-10oz. I noticed the days I give her extra romaine she drinks a little less. It maybe the water content in that specific vegetable. Other days when she stuffs her face with tons of alfalfa hay she will drink more water.

[Auburnie]

She has been eating romaine. I’m not sure how much she usually drinks but I noticed that the water level wasn’t as low as it usually is this morning when i got up.

[Azerane]

Rabbits will drink less when they are eating greens because they can get some of their water intake from them, so it’s not a surprise to see that she’s decreased the amount she is drinking. If she stops drinking completely then it would be cause for concern.

[drwil]

I have a bunny who never drinks water at all. He gets water from the greens I feed him (I only give natural foods and hay).

Years ago I had another bunny who was the same way.

Maybe your rabbit just does not get thirsty.

[DaisyMae]

I worry about that too because my bun doesn’t seem to drink a lot. I do offer her both a bowl with water, and a water bottle, but she still doesn’t drink a whole lot of either one of them. She does love her greens, though, so I guess it’s OK.
BabyBoy, I used to give my bun the dry food with the treats in them, but I gradually switched her over to Small Pet Select. She tried to ignore the good quality pellets at first, but I would leave them in her bowl all day, and once she figured out she wasn’t getting any more of the tasty stuff, she started eating them. Now, she goes crazy when she gets the high quality pellets.

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