A just hay day?

[rach83]

Do you guys have one day a week where your buns only have hay? no pellets/veg?

i have heard in the past its good for them to have a hay day once a week?

thanks

[Sarita]

I think for a rabbit over one year old it would be fine but rabbits who are still growing still should have their pellets and veggies. Definitely cutting back on pellets is a good idea overall too once they reach maturity.

[Karla]

I do that…the reason is that I have read several times that 80 % of a rabbit diet should be hay. And I have a bad feeling that this does not apply for my bunnies. And now that I have seen with a wrong diet can do to a bunny’s teeth, I am really conscious about the importance of hay.

The hay helps to keep the teeth trimmed unlike eg. pellets. I wish I could find the link that Petzy gave me when I had a diet question. But basically, the more hay, the better teeth

[Adalaide]

I’ve noticed that Freya does this on her own, but if she didn’t or doesn’t continue I’ll certainly force it on her when she’s all growed up. Four or five days a week she inhales her veggies and pellets like a Hoover. Then the other days she’ll hardly touch them and sit on her third level almost all day just munching on hay lazily. I read somewhere once that the whole food pyramid thing for adults is a lot more fair if you add it all up and do it a week at a time instead of a day so I figured the same would apply for Freya.

[RabbitPam]

You can email Petzy by just clicking her link on her avatar to get to the message center, Karla. Just ask her for it again.

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