My boy seems to have a way sensitive gut or allergies. Darkish poops and not well-formed cecotropes. I use Sherwood Digestive tablets to help supplement, but I’d like some thoughts on how to help. My other rabbit on the exact same diet is fantastic, great poops, no cecotrope mess ever.

I give a small number of greens daily, but I think I need to cut them out completely. He eats 90% of his cecotropes, but he seems to get a poopy butt or just poopy area from a partially uneaten cecotrope at least once a week, sometimes twice. He also occasionally seems to get goopy eyes and sniffles, we’ve gone to the vet before for it, but it’s always super mild and I don’t want to give more antibiotics and possibly messing his gut up more. He’s had good poops before, but it seems over the past couple of months, the less then ideal poop habits have been more regular.

He’s the tiniest overweight, but not absurdly so, the normal amount of rex chub/excess skin. We’re working on that, but it seems that there’s a little more going on.

Here’s his diet in full:

-1 Sherwood digestive pellet in the morning

-1/8 cup pellets once a day in the morning (Oxbow Garden Select)

-Small Pet Select Orchard Grass Hay constantly

-1 cup of greens

-Small sprinkle of herbs and dried veggies (usually mint and a little dried parsnip and carrot)

Anyone else have a bun with a sensitive tummy? I’m going to cut out greens completely starting today, but I feel bad for the lack of variety.

Should I switch hays? I know orchard grass has more protein than timothy, but I didn’t think it would cause a large shift.

I know some dried herbs can cause some weird poops, are there ones that are helpful for digestion?

After my last vet app. he talked about an old school tactic of a kind of poop transplant, taking a rabbit with really healthy poops and making a slurry of that and feed that back to the one with digestive issues to try and replace gut flora the way a probiotic would.

On the topic of probiotics, is there one that is helpful to rabbits? I’ve heard mixed things on how lots of the pet available ones aren’t actually useful to rabbits.