Is it normal for bunnies to be eating normal droppings?

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- 09/01/2022 at 6:06 PM
  tbunnie
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  My 6-month old lionhead dwarf occasionally takes a bite out of her regular droppings (not cecotropes) if she poops outside her litter box. A month or two ago, she did this too (probably because she was a baby so still getting used to eating cecotropes) and hasn’t been biting normal droppings since recently. Is this normal? If so, is it only something that occurs for young rabbits, and when they grow up will stop?
- 09/01/2022 at 6:32 PM
  LBJ10
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  It happens. I wouldn’t be overly concerned. It isn’t something that they grow out of necessarily. I always just thought of it as their body craving something.
  - 09/01/2022 at 8:12 PM
    tbunnie
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    Does that mean I should be giving her more hay/food? She has a good amount in her litter box but sometimes doesn’t like to eat the older hay that has been sitting out for a few hours.
  - 09/02/2022 at 5:27 PM
    LBJ10
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    That’s normal. Bunnies can get picky sometimes. You can sometimes trick them by “fluffing” the hay and mixing it with a little bit of new stuff. I don’t think that would be related to the poop eating though.
- 09/01/2022 at 8:42 PM
  Moonshadow
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  My bunny tends to eat his if he lets out a dropping in a place he’s not supposed to (that’s not in his room or litter area). For example, it happens sometimes he relaxes and accidentally lets out one on the towel I have in front of my computer if I’ve been petting him for awhile. He usually notices immediately, then ‘cleans up after himself ‘ by eating the dropping. I find it funny he does that since he’s an intact bun but he seems self aware enough to do it every time🙃
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