How much banana is too much?

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- 05/05/2017 at 5:32 PM
  LauraPalmer
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  I gave my 7 month old bunny a bit of banana as a treat this evening, but now I am a little concerned that I may have given her too much! I gave her about 1/2 a tablespoon before realizing that it might be too much (especially since I think it is her first time). How much is too much?
- 05/05/2017 at 5:52 PM
  vanessa
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  The house rabbit society recommends no more than 1-2tbsp per 5lb body weight per day. Bananas and grapes r high in sugar and should only b used “sparingly as occasional treats”. By that statement, one could deduce 1 tbsp a few times a week, but its not exactly spelled out. It also depends on the individual rabbit. I have 3 that tolerate fruit, and 1 that doesnt. I prefer veggies as treats instead of fruit. If your rabbit develops soft cecotropes or uneaten cecotropes, cut out the banana.
- 05/05/2017 at 5:55 PM
  LauraPalmer
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  Oh, ok. It shouldn’t have been too much, then.
- 05/05/2017 at 6:07 PM
  Muchelle
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  My rule is 1tbsp of fruit every 2 weeks (I have a bun with sensible tummy), so far so good!
- 05/05/2017 at 7:25 PM
  LauraPalmer
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  At the moment, I am trying one new thing each week. Romaine first, then cilantro, now banana…so far, I have not found her to be sensitive. I wasn’t even planning on adding fruit into her diet regularly, I just wanted to see what she would do. She ate the whole thing in one bit! ?
- 05/06/2017 at 4:24 AM
  sarahthegemini
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  I think half a tablespoon is too much when introducing something so high in sugar for the first time. Personally I’d start with the teeniest amount and then build up.
- 05/06/2017 at 1:53 PM
  LauraPalmer
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  Yeah, I was looking at it more as in comparison to an human. To me, it seemed super tiny…then, (of course, after I fed it to her) I remembered just how tiny she is. ?
- 05/06/2017 at 9:01 PM
  vanessa
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  It’s about more than just her size. Our bellies are designed to handle sugar, theirs aren’t The sugar disrupts the bacterial balance, and their cecums need the right microflora in order to be able to produce those yumy cecotropes. That’;s why I just don’t feed fruits at all. I give my bunnies all sorts of yummy veggies. I guess that’s like saying – “I don’t eat chocolate as a treat”. I don’t need it – but it’s yummy. Rabbits don’t need fruit, but we like to treat them. Most people here feed small amounts of fruit to their rabbits. The high-sugar fruits like banana/grape.raisin – shodul be a few times a week if you choose, best not every day. The best age to start feeidng fruit is also highly debated. Many people prefer not to feed young growing bunnies (under a year) fruit.
- 05/07/2017 at 1:37 AM
  BanditCamp
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  I share my banana with my bunny he’s 3.5 months. The reason I share with him is because it’s social and he will come up and is willing to share food with me
  
  I take two big bites for every one of his and i do half a bannana at a time no more than once a week.
- 05/07/2017 at 6:16 AM
  LauraPalmer
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  I guess I didn’t really clarify in my OP. I meant, how much is too much for that one time, and should I rush her to the vet in case it was too much. I hadn’t even considered fruit at all for her (seemed like a weird concept to feed a grass eater fruit) but I saw that people on here fed their rabbits bananas, and that they went crazy for them. She didn’t go any more crazy for a banana than she does cilantro, so it really doesn’t make much sense for me to include it into any part of her routine (my thought was, if she really liked it, that it would make nail trimmings more painless). It’s not good for them, so there’s no benefit, if she likes it the same as everything else. (I have a feeling that she will be quite the garbage disposal!). ?
- 05/07/2017 at 7:16 AM
  Bam
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  A “fruit-overdose” is not sth you’d have to rush a bun to the vet for, but sometinmes a bun can get gassy or sticky poop from eating too much of a new food-item, it doesn’t have to be fruit. You only treat the symptoms, you can’t make a bunny vomit (they have a very narrow passage between esophagus and stomach.
  
  How much fruit a bun tolerates is very induvidual. Some buns have the stomach of feral goats. Some can’t even have a slice of carrot (my Bam).
- 05/07/2017 at 8:21 AM
  Vienna Blue in France
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  Some buns have the stomach of feral goats
  
  3 guesses for which bonded pair….. !!! LOL
- 05/07/2017 at 9:58 AM
  BanditCamp
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  My bunny eats until he feels full, he’s also a snacker and it’s literal amazing to watch him consuming a 3ft piece of hay
- 05/07/2017 at 10:18 AM
  LauraPalmer
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  How much fruit a bun tolerates is very induvidual. Some buns have the stomach of feral goats. Some can’t even have a slice of carrot (my Bam).
  
  LOL…I think I have a feral goat bunny. She must have been ok…no cecotropes laying around, and she’s eating/drinking/pooping just like her normal, factory self. What happens if Bam has carrot?
- 05/07/2017 at 10:25 AM
  Bam
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  He gets sticky poop aka poopy butt. But he tolerates fruit, so he can have that
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