My friend bunny change the pellet brand then her bunny is molting strangly too much

[TiramisuBunny]

My friend said since she got the bunny she didn’t give them much hay she gave only oxbow pellet and some viggie and lastly her bunny got stomache problem then the vet suggested to give hay. At that time she saw a local pellet brand with look very good benifit so she bought it and slightly change the pellet for her bun. for less than a month the bunny’s fur come out a lot so she decided to go back to the Oxbow pellet.

[Azerane]

The fur coming out may not be related to the pellets. Was it coming out like her rabbit was shedding heavily? Otherwise it’s very unusual for a pellet to cause something like that. That being said, Oxbow is a good pellet brand, and as long as she is continuing to give hay her bunny shouldn’t get stomach problems.

[TiramisuBunny]

Yes I think so. The problem is not come when her bun eat oxbow but she gave another pellets because she was afriad that her bun was motling and it may help as that pellet claim that I will show you picture

[TiramisuBunny]

[TiramisuBunny]

That picuture is someone I don’t know but the capture is about how to the pellets help the fur come out but actually for me I think it is weird and unusal

[Bam]

Hay can help the fur come out, but it’s best to try and prevent the fur from getting into the stomach. Rabbits get fur in the stomach when they molt and groom themselves. This is natural. The best thing is to brush the rabbit every day when it’s molting so you get as much fur off as possible.

Picture number 1 is typical poop from a rabbit that has swallowed a lot of fur. The fur must pass all the way through the intestines because a rabbit can’t vomit like a cat can.

Picture nr 3 looks like poop from a rabbit that has swallowed some fur and had a gut slowdown. A gut slowdown means the food in the intestines hasn’t passed through as fast as it should have. The poop become oval or flat or clump together two and two. A diet high in fiber (from both hay and pellets, but mostly from the hay) can help prevent this. It’s also important that the rabbit drinks water because fiber absorbs a lot of water.

Picture nr 4 is the type of poop that makes a rabbit-owner happy.

Can you tell us the ingredients of the rabbit food in your pic? I can’t find it when I Google.

[TiramisuBunny]

This one

[TiramisuBunny]

It would be hard to find for you as it is a local one. The owner do marketing on Facebook under the name “Rodent”

[TiramisuBunny]

The ingredient they said are Timothy Grass, Sunflower Soybean meal and Yucca Extract and they claim that this pellet has fiber 24.40%

[jerseygirl]

The pellets look good, as long as the rabbit is getting greens for other vitamins and minerals and hay, of course. So your friend changed over to this pellet slowly?

It was definitely the adult one she used? The young rabbit product has alfalfa meal which makes it higher in protein. If it was higher protein then the oxbow pellet the rabbit was eating, that *might* trigger some fur loss… The trouble is, details often only given the

minimum amount of protein, fibre, fat and so on.

Did things get better once she went back to the Oxbow pellet?
Was she able to get her rabbit to eat hay also? If so, what type of hay is it?

[TiramisuBunny]

your friend changed over to this pellet slowly?  —  She said  she stop oxbow for 3 days and give this one for almost 2 weeks then the bunny got sick and passed away in 2 days

It was definitely the adult one she used? – Yes she gave the adult one and before giving the bunny was so fine but the bunny was molting.

Did things get better once she went back to the Oxbow pellet?  The bunny is passed away however that is just one other bunnies get worse as liver problem but they are fine after returning back to Oxbow.

Was she able to get her rabbit to eat hay also? – All bunnies eat hay normally as the pellets is 2 tablespoons per day(1 in morning and 1 at night)

what type of hay is it? – Timothy only (from Anderson’s farm it is imported and cheapest)

[Bam]

It is really difficult to say if it was the pellets that caused the death of your friend’s rabbit. Sadly, rabbits can die unexpectedly and suddenly and we can only make guesses about the cause of death. Many of us here have had lost rabbits unexpectedly. I lost one of my bunnies very suddenly, and I will never know what was the cause of death. I hadn’t changed his food.

If you don’t trust the Rodent food, don’t use it. The ingredients sound ok, but we can’t know anything about the quality of the ingredients before they were made into pellets. Big brands like Oxbow do careful quality testing, because they can’t afford to get a bad reputation among owners of small pets.

Rabbits can get liver problems if they don’t eat as much as they should. Sometimes if you change pellets, the rabbit doesn’t like the new pellets, so it eats very little and loses weight. A rabbit that loses weight very quickly can get liver problems. This is one of the reasons why you should change rabbits over to new food very slowly. Another reason is that a rabbit can have problems absorbing all the nutrients from a food that its stomach isn’t used to. That too can lead to weight loss and liver problems. This is called hepatic lipidosis. Here is a good article from the House Rabbit Society about this:
http://rabbit.org/liver-hepatic-disease-in-rabbits/

[TiramisuBunny]

Thank you and Would I ask something else. Could rabbit eat almond?

[TiramisuBunny]

Is it possible? I don’t believe the pellet can help the fur come out and the first photo they use for claim how good of their pellet.

[Bam]

If you mean a pellet could make the rabbit molt quicker – no, I don’t think so. Because if a pellet could do that, it would be sensational and everybody would want it for all pets that molt. Molting is one of the (few) really boring things about owning a pet.

If you mean that a pellet can help the fur get transported out through the gastro-intestinal canal more effiecently, then a high-fiber pellet could help with that. Fiber acts a little bit as a brush in the intestines.

I found a scientific study on the use of Yucca Schidigera in rabbit food. The study shows that it is beneficial and helps the rabbit digest protein. Hair is made of protein. So Yucca Schidigera could help break down hair in the GI canal.

Here’s the study: http://www.vuzv.sk/slju/12-3/3-Chrenkova-SJAS-3-2012.pdf
There is a conclusion on page 5, so you don’t have to read all of it.

[TiramisuBunny]

Thank you so much Bam. I am so appreciated your answer and bear on my question.

We are still sad of lossing my friend rabbit. It was so quick. In the moring she(bunny) still be enjoy eating and run around but in the afternoon she stop eating. My friend took her to the vet and she was died that night T_T. And other got high (I don’t know the word) in liver. So up to here, we couldn’t find the way to protect.

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