Thanks everyone for your help! I was hoping it was normal, I’m just not really experienced since she’s my first bunny to know anything about this. I don’t really give her treats, except a baby carrot a couple times a week and just gave her a small piece of melon last night…so perhaps it’s like a fun treat for her. I don’t think it’s replacing nutrition since she eats everything else, it’s not like it’s the first thing she goes to. It seemed to be after her regular eating was done she’d go and munch away.
As far as her diet, first off, she’s just about 4 lbs (3.99 to be exact…we were just at the vet
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– I have just completed the switch to bunnybasics T pellets, which she transitioned to very easily. I give her 1/3 c a day and plan to reduce it a bit more now that I’ve completed the transition and increase the veggies. Currently she’s getting 2 salads a day (some mix of red leaf and green leaf lettuce, romaine, parsley, basil, and/or cilantro and we’re still working on adding in some others) and I weigh out almost 2 oz for each salad. If I feel she’s looking for more I’ll throw some extra veggies in afterwards. (If she’s not hungry she won’t stuff her face, so I go based on that with anything extra) Finally she always has hay available (mostly timothy, but also botanical timothy and just introduced orchard grass), and I know she eats quite a bit of it.
Just a side note, my vet highly discouraged too many pellets because it may cause issues with the teeth over time (not enough chewing required) and he already observed the beginnings of malocclusion, so he suggested as much as possible to limit the pellets (or remove completely) and give mainly veggies and hay. I don’t want to completely remove in case I wasn’t providing all the essential nutrients in the salads, but maybe over time I can. She’s still young (~6.5 months)
Thanks again!