Others will be much more experienced with younger bunny diets, and will be able to answer your questions a lot better.

However, if everything is approved, I would still recommend buying Oxbow and adding it to your mix. Once your bun is older (6+months I think…) and can have a wider variety of veggies, you will be giving a very small amount of pellets. Sometimes it is as low as a teaspoon! So 5lbs would last quite a long time.

I’ll poke a couple of the aussie members here and see what they say.

Oxbow is rather expensive there.

Alfalfa isn’t “bad” food, but fed in too high quantities it can cause pudgy bunnies. We’re fortunate (in the US) because we have the option of both timothy and alfalfa, so timothy (or grass hay) is what’s fed to adult buns here, but I know many members in AUS have successfully fed alfalfa/lucerne because that was what is available there.

It sounds like you’ve done your research and an Angora bun could definitely benefit from the added fiber.

Hi Toady, welcome to BB.com : )

Like you, Barastoc is the only pellet I’ve found here that has reasonable protein/fibre levels. That’s what I use. Yours being a baby, that would be fine to feed unlimited. Do get a little of the feed the breeder has it on when you pick up the bun. Then you can slowly transistion it onto your feed.

I *think* the wool breeds can have little more protein then the average rabbit because of them constantly producing wool. I don’t know specifically what they angora rabbit needs in the diet though…

You could feed Lucerne hay and then oaten or wheaten hay. Chaff in a mix sounds like a good idea. I’d avoid adding too much else though as rabbits can pick out what they like and leave the rest. Not sure what they breeder uses but some mixes contain grains and seeds and molasses which you probably want to avoid.
Personally I think it would do fine on basic pellet and hay. Grass and hay requires the chewing action thats needed to keep the tear worn down.

ps. you might like to rig up a hay rack. I’m told the hay can get caught in their wool pretty easy.

Is that your little bun in your avatar pic?
 

Cute!!

Theres lucerne chaff also but pricey I think. The lucerne in the pellets would be enough I expect.
I’d go oaten over pasture/meadow hays. The latter has stuff that would stick in the wool badly. Plus it’s hard to find good meadow hay. Well, at least here in SA it is.