Bee’s Diet

[Lintini]

I’ve been having some issues with Bee’s diet. I keep experimenting to see what I can get away with because she has mush poo after too many pellets or too many treats. I’m trying to find a balance. When she eats too much she gets tiny soft poo all stuck together.

Right now she is getting about 2 tbs of oxbow pellets a day, spinnach for veggies this week, and for the treats…i overdid the treats last night, I fed her 2 rose hips, 1 raisin and 1 papaya. Oh and unlimited timothy and oat hay. She is also enhaling those timothy hay cubes.

 

So if I do absolutely no treats and do 1 tbs of pellets ?? 2 cups veggies + hay ?

[Carrot Lane Bunny]

Are the pellets timmy or alfalfa? And how old is Bee? Just wondering cause it might make it easier to come up with a solution.

[Sarita]

She can actually eat more pellets, she’s just a baby. I suspect that she came from a breeder who did not feed her mother any veggies and the mother was on a pellet only diet which is why she is having mushy poo’s right now. That’s usually why it takes a little longer to introduce veggies to babies – you generally want the babies diet to be close to the mom’s and introduce the veggies slowly. If you know the mom was eating veggies then you can start feeding babies what mom was eating but unfortunately you don’t know what mom was eating.

I also think I would not do spinach – try something like romaine and parsley. I don’t think that those treats are the problem.

[Sarita]

Another thought is that you might want to consider a fecal test if you never got one for her.

[MimzMum]

I had to cut pellets out of my bunnies’ diets altogether…even now they only get a few for a treat occasionally. Of course all three of mine are adults.
I used to have a little trouble with veggies too, but Sarita told me to just stick with it and now they eat them with little to no trouble. I have to be sure they keep eating at least a 2nd cut timothy to keep fiber in their tums, but they really enjoy the extra fluids and it seems to balance their digestion nicely.
How old is Bee now?

[Lintini]

3 Months now. I don’t see any scooty poo’s right now. I just got home. This is the first time I’ve fed her spinach. Every week before is romaine/green leaf lettuce, parsley and cilantro and a piece of baby peeled carrot. She enhales her pellets, I thought that was doing it along with my treats. She about runs me over for treats so I thought I was getting worked over too much for them. Okay I’ll cut out the spinach. I think it might be the spinach now that I think about it…she was fine with lettuce/parsley/cilantro. If I don’t see an improvement by the end of the weekend with how I can adjust her diet I’ll bring in some poo for the vet to check. thanks.

[Lintini]

Oh I also have those tablets ..the papaya ones, should i give her those too? I’ve only given her one about a week ago.

[MimzMum]

Papaya tabs are usually to aid digestion where accumulated fur is concerned. I’d just stick to the basics for now if nothing like that is indicated. You want to keep her diet as normal as possible without going overboard with the treats.
Spinach is high in oxalates. Perhaps this is what upset her tum. I find kale can do that too and so only feed it sparingly to my bunnies. Of course any unusual veggie can cause tummy upset or changes in poo if your bun isn’t used to it.
Who was it that just posted last week about bok choy causing trouble, or maybe collard greens? Wasn’t it Fern’s momma?

I can’t believe Bee is only 3 months, she seems bigger than Mimzy was at that age!

[Lintini]

Yea she’s getting really big, she’s almost caught up to Indy and he’s 4lbs. She used to fit into my hand *sniffle* my lil baby all grown up and in love already!!

She recieved the name “BumbleButt today”

[Monkeybun]

wouldn’t it be neat if she was a flemmie/lop mix….lol

[MimzMum]

D’aww…I remember that piccie of her standing in someone’s hand. ^_^ What a cutie pie!
I also just noticed the timothy hay cubes in your original post. Don’t know how I missed that…anyway, mine won’t eat them anymore, but I notice those could upset their tums too…I think it’s whatever they use to bind both the pellets and the cubes, there must be some connection with those two products.
But really, if you’re adding new veggies or she had more treats than she’s used to, that could be all it is. Fiver is VERY limited to what he can have for the same reason. Unlimited hay is an excellent way to keep bunnies stomachs and eliminations from going wonky.

[Lintini]

Hmmm I dunno…She’d eat me out of house and home then! I should video her when I give her pellets.

Just saw your post Mimzy …She’s always had them since I got her the cubes. I’ll go read the package and see what’s binding it…I thought it was just pressure…or…well i didn’t think about it guess. Just thought it was hay. Ill go see~

 

 

[Lintini]

Hmm…the bag says timothy hay and alfalfa hay “sufficient for processing”

[Lintini]

Oh and thanks Mimz – I know you are a pro at this stuff – which is a good thing !

Sarita – ty Spinach no more!

Monkey – Bun says she is coming over for a visit and is taking all your sock bunz home with her!

[Monkeybun]

If Bun steps foot in this house, she’s never leaving I can handle another diva.. hehe

[Lintini]

I dunno…both her ears are pinned back right now. I’m staying away

[Lintini]

Lol she zoomed over to me, I pet her and said her name in a high pitch voice…she binkied like 2 feet in the air and a poo came out! And its solid! lol! ///WOOOOOw it’s the BUnny 500 here!!

[Lintini]

Okay bad news…I have her about 3 tbs of pellets and 3 leaves of romaine lettuce, and we had mush poo again all stuck together. It’s not sticking to her but its all clumped up like a mountain.

[Sarita]

Well, it takes awhile – I honestly think at her age she needs a little more pellets. It takes more than one time so keep up the veggies.

[Lintini]

Okay, how much would you suggest I should be giving her?

[Sarita]

At 3 months she may eat as much as she wishes since she’s still growing.

[lashkay]

My first bunny Lash had mushpoo every once in a while. When she did, I’d give her a loaf of dry bread I had let dry completely out and become hard as a rock. She would gratefully gnaw away on it and soon her mushpoos became solid again. No moist bread, no regular bread, though, must be completely dry and hard. I would wash away the dirtyness on her bottom in the meantime in my bathroom sink, with room temperature water or just a little warm. She was okay with that and would gratefully lick herself after she was cleaned up by me. I wouldn’t do any soap on her, just water. I would let the dirty water drain away as needed to keep the water clean until she was clean too. There still may be spinach in your bunnie’s system which is causing the mushpoo. Keep Bee on Cilantro and parsley, pellets and stalk timothy hay grass, take away the pellet cubes and spinach, then add the romaine after she becomes solid again. Take out a loaf of bread (any size, can be a mini) and let it harden. Best wishes!

[MimzMum]

I find that romaine lettuce is a little hard on my buns’ digestion too. I always feed green leaf.
*shakes head* I still think it could be the pellets. Pip and Fiver both ate them fine for a long time…then suddenly one day, mushy perpes!

Since I’ve stopped them, they both do much better. Regardless of what the ingredients are. I even fed Oxbow and they couldn’t handle them.

((((((((((healing vibes)))))))))))))

[Lintini]

Well it’s not poopy butt thank goodness, just the poop is questionable. I’ll try going back to green leaf and only do that with Parsley. And just keep to those 2 and see how that works and give her as much pellets as she likes. No more cubes for her…too bad she really likes those. I guess they are considered treats? Thanks for all the advice <3

[jerseygirl]

Lin, I’d just skip veggies and reintroduce them to her when she’s a bit older. Pellets and hay should get things looking better. If not, poop test time!

[MimzMum]

Is she a good hay eater if you remove the cubes? Or is that the only way she eats hay?
Also, what type of hay are you using? the cut is sometimes important. The second and first cuts of timothy I think keep things a little dried in the intestines than the 3rd cut. At least that’s my experience.

[Lintini]

I was feeding her Oat and Wheat hay from BinkyBunny and now she has 3 liter boxes and a shoe box full of Timothy. I don’t know what cut it is. MikeBun split the bale with me. I just asked him and he doesn’t know either. I will take a photo and show you.

Oh yeah she’s a pig without the cubes. Those were just a fun new thing for her to eat. She just really liked them when I originally bought them for my guinea pigs and they wouldn’t touch them, and Bun wouldn’t touch them. When I come into my room now she tackles me for food.

[Lintini]

This is from Indy’s box. I wish her Poo’s looked like this today

[KatnipCrzy]

have you had a fecal check on all the bunnies?- coccidia can cause mushy stool- and can be life threatening if it overwhelms the GI system and starts to destroy the intestinal lining.

[Deleted User]

I agree with Katnip, have her checked for coccidia.

As far as getting a sensitive stomach used to veggies, I had much success with Mops when he was young by feeding him dried vegetables first and gradually switching him to fresh. I would dry carrot slices and even lettuce.

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