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BINKYBUNNY FORUMS

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- 01/09/2011 at 2:12 PM
  mocha200
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  I need help… LOL
  
  However hard I try I can never stick to a schedule! So my rabbits sometimes get there veggies at 10am or at 2pm. I know rabbits really like schedules so I would really like to have one. I have tried so many times but never got through on day! So how do you guys stick to yours?
  
  ( I am having to much fun with these)
  
  Thanks!
  
  Mocha200.
- 01/09/2011 at 2:44 PM
  RabbitPam
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  I find that no matter what type of day, I always get up in the morning to get ready for it. That’s my best time to meet the needs of a small fuzzie beastie before I tend to my own. So after I get out of my own litter pan I open a cage, change a water dish, return it with a handful of veggies for the other dish, and grab a scooper for pellets. I am closely supervised by someone, who usually hits the pellets immediately.
  
  Fill up the hay bin, and that way you know that whatever time the second serving of veggies happens, a steady stream of hay, water and pellets is available. Since I give one day’s serving once a day, and hay is unlimited, it’s really not so bad having flexibility for the greens and treats. Bunnies regulate their eating times to bits throughout the day – unlike dogs that inhale it all at once then wait for hours.
- 01/09/2011 at 2:54 PM
  Sarita
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  I think you have to organize your time better and make a schedule a priority for yourself and for the rabbits. Even if I am off, I get up around the same time (maybe an hour later on weekends) and get up clean and feed. Same thing in the evening – I get home and right to work cleaning and fresh water and treats and hay for the buns.
- 01/09/2011 at 3:02 PM
  LizzieKnittyBun
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  Three words for you… cell phone alarm!
  
  Most of us keep our cell phones nearby, and many of them can be set to go off during weekdays, everyday, weekends, etc. Set your phone to go off at the same time every day and you’ll know to feed the buns!
  
  : D
- 01/09/2011 at 4:48 PM
  Monkeybun
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  My buns get their dinner when we get ours, which is usually about the same time of day. So that works out well. And then they get pellets when I go to bed.
- 01/09/2011 at 4:52 PM
  Rabbitsareecool
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  I feed my buns when i get up. When ever im hungry i suspect that they are to.My buns get grass each day at lunch time & Pellets in the morning and veggies at night
- 01/09/2011 at 5:01 PM
  mocha200
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  LizzieKnittyBun: haha I wish. I’m not allowed to have a cell phone until i get my license. My mom has a a watch that has multiple alarms on it and she mentioned she might be getting a new one and I could have her old one.
  
  I should try feeding right when I get up. I am always so hungry that I go and eat, but i guess they are too, then I do school.
- 01/09/2011 at 5:05 PM
  LoveChaCha
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  Perhaps waking up earlier before school?
  
  I make sure, even with I am with friends, that I am home by 9:30 pm, or I prepare veggies and have my dad give them to Chacha.
- 01/09/2011 at 6:16 PM
  mocha200
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  I am home schooled so I am home all day to look after them so i kinda just take care of them every time I walk in my room. Like make sure they got hay, water, pick up poop, ect. so its hard for me to get on a schedule.
- 01/10/2011 at 12:50 PM
  Elrohwen
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  I honestly don’t worry about it too much. Sure, they like schedules, but they also beg for dinner hours before they would normally get it, so I’m not sure they even know what the schedule is supposed to be 😛
  
  Whoever wakes up first feeds them every day. On the weekdays we always get up at the same time, so it’s easy. On weekends DH is usually up first and feeds them, but it could be anywhere from 6:30 to 8:00. They have hay, so they’re fine.
  
  We feed them in the evening whenever we go to bed (usually 10pm). However, we’ve fed them at 5pm and left for the night, only to come back and feed them at 10am the next morning. They adapt!
  
  I would just feed them when you get up (you can eat breakfast first if you want, but then go and feed them), then feed again when you go to bed. Easy!
- 01/10/2011 at 12:55 PM
  Deleted User
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  Actually, I think it’s terrific you can check on your two every time you go to your room. You would catch an illness very fast that way.
  Rabbits are grazers so they pretty much like to nibble all the time when they are awake. Greens and hay can be given throughout the day/night for that reason. Just stick to a schedule with the dry feed (pellets); you could give them at night at your bed time.
- 01/10/2011 at 12:58 PM
  Otti
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  I think the suggestion of feeding them once in the morning when you get up and once at night before you go to bed is a good one. That’s pretty much how I do it.
  
  One serving of veggies and fresh water in the morning.
  
  Then second serving of veggies, 1/4 cup of pellets, fresh water again (if needed) and fresh hay before I go to bed.
  
  Sometimes I spread out the evening feeding into pellets and fresh water when I get home from work, and veggies and fresh hay before bed. Depends on how desperate he looks for the pellets LOL
- 01/10/2011 at 1:20 PM
  Balefulregards
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  Cripes, mine KNOW the schedule, regardless of me. They get one big dish of greens at about 7:30 am on the weekdays ( more like 8:30 on the weekends) and 5 p.m. is the dinner hour.
  
  Normally, I start to see them standing near the food bowl about now, looking longingly at me. Hoping that Today the sad bunny eyes will be enough to bring the dinner salad early. Because they are free roam, dinner time is the only binkies I ever see anymore, and if I let them push it up then I fear it would just creep earlier and earlier.
  
  Refresh water with each greens. Hay gets refreshed at about 11:30 p.m., before I go to bed and at about noon.
  
  Mine are pellet free at the moment, so once they finish the greens, they simply eat Hay ( and lots of it)
  
  I’ve also noticed that they have become more relaxed about walking away from the greens when they are full, and then finishing the lot at about 9 pm…so this is the schedule that has worked best for us. I jokingly have told my daughter that the house gets fed in this order: Bunnies, Cat and then Humans.
- 01/10/2011 at 2:42 PM
  mocha200
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  I normally feed them around noon then around 10-11pm before I go to bed, so I guess that’s about 12 hours in between so I think I will stick to that!
  Thanks!
  Petzy: Yeah, I love going in my room and having them run up to me for treats and pets all day long!
- 01/10/2011 at 2:49 PM
  Otti
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  Yeah that sounds good They always have hay so they’re only acting like they’re starving, no worries LOL
- 01/11/2011 at 12:25 PM
  Beka27
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  Posted By mocha200 on 01/10/2011 02:42 PM
  I normally feed them around noon then around 10-11pm before I go to bed, so I guess that’s about 12 hours in between so I think I will stick to that!
  
  That sounds fine! As long as it’s somewhat consistent, I wouldn’t worry about it. You want some flexibility in there too.
- 01/11/2011 at 3:48 PM
  RabbitPam
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  Balefulregards – the silent but eloquent stand beside the food dish. I know it well. I get home from work, open the cage door, and does she run out? No. She stands by the dish with the big eyes and doesn’t move. Waiting. For the greens to arrive. It’s so funny and works soooooooo well.
- 01/11/2011 at 7:55 PM
  Beka27
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  They really are so smart. I have a phone and a clock and a computer and a laptop and a cable box… All with the time on it… Yet I don’t know what time it is…. They just know.
- 01/12/2011 at 4:35 AM
  Lintini
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  If I mess up my rabbits feeding schedule by having an overnight orchestra tour trip or late night out with friends……I pay for it dearly. I will be washing bedding when I get home. I just went on vacation to PA for new years and even though my mother watched my buns…she didn’t use the same schedule I did and I warned her!!! They were making a mess of my bed…so gross.
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