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Forum DIET & CARE Safe bunny food

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    • HippityEeyore
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        Hi! My sister and I got 2 bunnies and they’re at the 10 week stage. We’ve been feeding them a “young bunny pellet” but our supplier didn’t get any in on the truck and we’re out. Is it safe to switch them over to an adult bunny pellet food now? Thank you for your help!


      • tobyluv
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          Whenever you change pellets, you are supposed to do it gradually. You start with a mix of 3/4 part old pellets and 1/4 part new pellets. Do that for the first week, then the second week, you can mix half and half. The third week, you can mix 1/4 part old pellets with 3/4 part new pellets, then the following week, you can go with all new pellets. It sounds like you will run out of the young bunny pellets before you can do the gradual mix process, so you may have to go with all adult (timothy based) pellets soon. Have you tried to find any other store in the area that sells the young bunny food?

          If the bunnies are being housed together, since they are 10 weeks old, they will have to be separated in a couple of weeks. It is easy to incorrectly sex rabbits, which is why people often end up with unwanted litters. Even if the bunnies are the same sex, when they hit puberty, which will be soon, the hormones can cause aggression and fighting. And that can lead to injuries. After they are spayed and or neutered, they can be re-bonded.


        • HippityEeyore
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            OK. The bunnies are littermates and on very close, and embarrassing to the buns, inspection they definitely have the same hardware. I’ll let my sister know about separating them. We sadly only have the one pet store that sells quality bunny food. The other store sells Young Living Extrusion and after reading the post about proper foods I wouldn’t feel comfortable feeding them that. The adult food we got is an alfalfa base, like the young bunny food we had. Thank you for your guidance. We’re so new to all this bunny stuff!


          • tobyluv
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              If you haven’t already checked it out, the BUNNY INFO link at the top of the page will be very helpful to you. It covers all the basics of rabbit care. Feel free to ask any questions that you may have. The members here are always glad to help. Welcome to Binky Bunny!


            • HippityEeyore
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                Thank you! I didn’t realize I could fall so completely in love with a bunny, but here we are. Lol


              • flemishwhite
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                  If it’s available to you, you need to feed the bunnies a grass hay.  Harking back to their wild animal  days, grass hays were their principal diet.  Our bunnies get all the oat hay to eat that they want. Hay is important for bunnies since their teeth are always growing and they need to eat something abrasive to keep their teeth worn down.  Oat hay is abrasive.  Fortunately we live near a feed and grain store that sells oats to horse owners. 

                  We feed our bunnies, in addition to oat hay,  leafy green vegetables.  Carrot tops  and fennel tops (from the farmer’s market), romaine lettuce, parsley, cilantro, dandelion leaves (farmer’s market).  The carrot and fennel tops from the farmers market are free. We buy the romaine lettuce from the 99 cent store.  It’s 99 cents a head.  Much cheaper than from the local grocery stores. We typically buy 12 to 16 heads at a time! Also bok choy, aka Chinese lettuce.  BTW, don’t feed the rabbits iceberg lettuce, it’s not good for them. For the bok choy and romaine lettuce, the rabbits only eat the green leafy part.  The remainder of the stalks go into my wife’s soup!  

                  We give them treats.  Banana slices,fuji apple slices, guava slices.  Tthey like the bananas to have a green with traces of yellow skin.  They like the  bananas to be a little bit tart. 

                  Finally we keep their food bowls full of pellets….just in case they are hungry and want something different.  I look at the ingredients of the pellets and try to make sure we are not buying pellets with molasses or corn sugar; i.e. we try to avoid the high calorie pellets since our rabbits don’t need the extra calories.

                  We have two 10 month old Flemish Giant rabbits.  They are neutered sisters. They chomp through a lot of food, especially green leafy vegetables.  Don’t know how much they weigh.  12 to 14 pounds I’d guess.  They are pretty big bunnies.  They are house rabbits.  They have a pen in our living room and they spend a lot of their day in the pen. However, the pen door has been open continuously now for 8 months.  Anytime of the day or night, they can roam anywhere in the house except our bedrooms. When not in their pen, the next favorite place is behind the dining room curtains. 

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