Do you feed her oat hay? Give her something like orchard grass instead because there are no seeds. A lot of buns really like the sweet flavor too.

I’d just keep cycling through recycled hay until it’s gone, and not adding in new hay until then. Wick falls into the same category in terms of pickiness, so I have a hay box system. When I clean Wick’s boxes, I take all salvageable hay and place it in the box, mix it up, and replace a handful in his clean litterboxes. I do this consistently and when the hay box becomes low, I fill it with some fresh hay from the hay bag. Mix that all up, and repeat the process. The recycling hay works well since eventually there are no more fuzzy tops to pick over, and when the hay is shuffled together, it re-enacts the scent of fresh hay and may encourage eating the previously rejected pieces.

I’d recommend orchard grass too. Lovely long stems that a lot of buns go mad for!

Definitely less enthusiastic about recycled hay, but will eat it.

An interesting note about hay, although you are right that much of the fiber is in the stems, the leaves can be also good for preventing dental disease. Here’s a cool link: http://www.therabbithouse.com/blog/2011/10/07/grass-hay-tooth-wear/

Basically, the reason we feed rabbits grass hay is that those sharp barbs on the leaves are good at wearing down teeth. It’s the molecular structure of the hay that tends to wear down teeth rather than the harness of the material. This is why fresh grass is just as good for tooth wear as hay.

Of course it is still good to prevent waste, and more fiber is good for the digestive system. I agree with Wick that recycling hay and mixing it up can help encourage them to eat “old” hay!

Posted By ThorBunny on 12/02/2017 7:05 AM

An interesting note about hay, although you are right that much of the fiber is in the stems, the leaves can be also good for preventing dental disease. Here’s a cool link: http://www.therabbithouse.com/blog/2011/10/07/grass-hay-tooth-wear/

Basically, the reason we feed rabbits grass hay is that those sharp barbs on the leaves are good at wearing down teeth. It’s the molecular structure of the hay that tends to wear down teeth rather than the harness of the material. This is why fresh grass is just as good for tooth wear as hay.

Of course it is still good to prevent waste, and more fiber is good for the digestive system. I agree with Wick that recycling hay and mixing it up can help encourage them to eat “old” hay!

Interesting! Learn something new every day