I have two bunnies, Lily and Daisy, and Daisy will eat Anything and is healthy as can be. Lily on the other hand is a Super picky eater. She does love to eat timothy hay, only timothy but plenty of hay nonetheless. I was feeding them a half cup of Oxbow timothy pellets per day to share but the calcium content is a little high and Lily’s urine was very dark orange.
So, I decreased and stopped the pellets and increased fresh veggies. Only problem is, Lily doesn’t really like veggies. She will eat radicchio and some cabbage but I don’t want to feed too much cabbage in case it causes bloat. I feel that this isn’t enough variety to give her proper nutrition.
She turns her nose up at: butter lettuce, romaine, red and green leaf lettuce, endive, escarole, dandelion greens, mustard and turnip and beet greens, kale, bok choy, arugula, and swiss chard. I’ve tried putting some pellets under them, but she just eats the pellets and then continues to ignore the veggies. I tried rubbing the leaves in the pellets to make them smell like the pellets and she takes a sniff, one nibble and then hops away.
She will eat collard greens and carrots but they are high in the calcium that I’m trying to cut from her diet.
In addition to all of this, when I do put out greens, Daisy goes to town on them and will eat them all before Lily decides she even wants to try them. I’ve separated them and given them individual servings but Lily just sits in the corner and avoids the veggies for hours and I don’t want to keep her penned up for days until she eats.
What can I do to get her to eat more veggies?