How do you weigh your buns?

[Sleepy]

While weighing buns is a recommended check up, we’ve been running into some issues getting accurate readings recently. Part of the problem is we have a 11-pound food scale and it used to work great with the buns when they were small, since we’d just put them in a metal bowl on the scale and weigh them. However, the buns are now fully grown and Guinness in particular is in 5-6 pound range and refuses to sit still long enough for us to get an accurate measure. 

We’re looking into options but does anyone have any tips on how they measure their buns?

[Gina.Jenny]

I use a large plastic mixing bowl, which I place on the metal bowl of our ‘old fashioned’ style scale. I weighed Podge at 2.44 kg in it, a few days later the vet weighed him at 2.45 kg, so its accurate enough.

2.45 kg = 5.4 lb

[Theodorusrex]

Weigh yourself on people scales then weigh yourself while holding bunny and take them away. Never done it this way but heard of others doing it whose buns are too big for kitchen scales

[Vienna Blue in France]

This is how we weigh heavy packages at work too big for normal letter scales. A small weight is NOT reliable directly placed on people scales. It has to be over about 15k for it to read accurately on its own (ie dont place bun in transport box directly on people scales), as Theo so rightly said weigh it with a human holding it and delete the weight of human (and box)….. I used to do that with my 16kg dog!!!

[Hopper]

I weigh myself holding Hopper, then without holding him, subtract the two measurements to get the weight of Hopper!

[LittlePuffyTail]

I always used a kitchen scale for my smaller buns. Not sure how I’m going to weigh Sterling.

[Q8bunny]

I have a digital suitcase weigher – one of those contraptions with a hook on one end for dangling luggage by the handle before rushing off to the airport? I weighed my weekend bag, and then weighed it again with Chewie in it, and subtracted. It matched his vet weight pretty darn closely.

[bubyken]

Posted By Theodorusrex on 7/07/2016 9:01 AM

Weigh yourself on people scales then weigh yourself while holding bunny and take them away. Never done it this way but heard of others doing it whose buns are too big for kitchen scales

Hi, what the kitchen scales brand are you using?

[ThorBunny]

I weigh my bun on a kitchen scale because she is fairly small (4.8lbs at last checkin!). However, I have heard of people using baby scales for rabbits that are larger and/or won’t hold still. Something like this? https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Weigh-Weighing-Capacity-Accurate/dp/B01IC7P3GS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1494590733&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=baby+scale&psc=1

I’d actually like to get one, since it is always a bit of a fight to get Thor into our kitchen weighing bowl With the larger scale, you could just tempt him up there to eat a treat while also getting weighed!

[vanessa]

My bunnies are too big for a kitchen scale. I hold them, weigh myself on a human scale, then put them down and weigh myself again. If I’m holding them in a towel or in a carrier, I weigh myself with that towel/carrier and subtract the difference to get their weight.

[kirstyol]

I don’t weigh my buns, they get three monthly vet checks and get weighed then but the vet uses baby scales for all small animals

[vanessa]

Those vet scales are cool.

[Gina.Jenny]

I put a big mixing bowl inside the small metal bowl on our kitchen scales, it works fine for Snickers, who is our heaviest bun at 2.75 kg. Everybun gets weighed and claw clipped every 5-6 weeks

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