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- 10/18/2007 at 9:27 PM
  Carolyn
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  I have two bunnies about 5 and half months now. Scamper is a food hound, he lives to eat….
  
  Molly on the other hand, She not much of a food hound, she couldn’t care less. but what I have notice is she is eatting a large amount of pellets, some veggies and harldy any hay, I know they are supose to have unlimited amounts of pellets until they are 8 months of age but I’m worried she not eatting enough hay.
  
  So my question is, Do you think I can cut Molly’s pellets back at this age to encurage her to eat more hay???
- 10/19/2007 at 12:59 AM
  Floppy
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  I don’t think cutting back pellets is a bad idea, I only give my bun limited pellets that
  should last him all day when I am not home or for him to munch on throughout the night
  and I always have Hay in his cage for him, but what I also did to encourage him to eat
  more hay was that I put it in a paper bag (I think there are photos in the Toy Test forum)
  if you want to see, anyway I put it in there and when he is hopping around he will go
  in there and munch on hay. Maybe if you find fun ways for her to play or find the hay she
  will eat more!
- 10/19/2007 at 6:07 AM
  Sarita
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  No, I think that is perfectly fine – I would measure out the pellets starting now for your chowhound bun so you can see how much pellets she is eating. Do try Floppy’s paperbag trick too for hay. Also try different types of hay for variety.
- 10/19/2007 at 11:49 AM
  BunMumTiff
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  Oreo will eat a full food dish two times a day if i let him. But I cut him back to 1/4 and LOTS of hay. I would cut it back and offer more hay and veggies. You will be able to tell if it is a good thing or a bad thing. Just go with what you think is best.
- 10/19/2007 at 2:10 PM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  One thing I do to encourage hay eating in my buns (they LOVE their freash veggies and greens and hardly touch pellets, but don’t prefer hay…) is when I plate the hay for them (I plate it now so I can see how much they are eating) I put some treats in with it….Not rabbit treats, but cut up peaches, pineapple and mandarins (I just buy cheap tinned fruits for them for treats, and dried fruti)…That was the smell has them at the plate quite often, and they are wet treats so I thnk they flavour the hay a bit for them too…And voila! they are eating more hay!
- 10/19/2007 at 6:54 PM
  Scarlet_Rose
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  That’s a very creative way to get them to eat hay. A tip with the tinned fruit though, a lot of them are packed in sugar syrup so try to purchase the ones packed in juice. Too much sugar can be a bad thing.
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