There are now vets that specialise in rabbits :) Check with your local vet and they will be able to help you. Vets these days focus much more on smaller animals than they used to due to their rising popularity as pets. Greens - the darker the green, the better. Try growing spinach. It grows like a weed and they LOVE it. You can also grow grass in tubs. Restrict apples and carrots - they contain a lot fo sugar which the rabbit just doesn't need. Make sure they have loads and loads of top quality hay to munch on at all times, that's very important for their system. I never fed mine pellets, just grass, hay and loads of dark green veggies, most lived to about 8 or 9 years old apart from Rosie who died of dog attack, and even so when she'd go see her vet, she was always saying how great Rosie looked. House rabbits are AWESOME fun! But be very, very careful to rabbit-proof the house. You'll be amazed at what they can get into!
Yeah, I know what to feed, it's just going to take a bit of time to get it growing. Silverbeet will grow like a weed and they like it. Mum and dads bunnies LOVE Amaranth too and get a lot of grass. Sucks living in a little unit with a bitchumen courtyard, we have to grow everything in tubs. At the moment we have plenty of broccoli, but I believe that brassicas aren't great for bunnies!
Our local vets are pretty good with small animals I think, I'm not sure about how they are with bunnies but they're pretty good with our pet rats :D I''ll have to make sure that James knows to mozzie-proof the hutch when he makes it. Mum and dad managed to lose a couple of bunnies to myxo a few years back >.
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Greens - the darker the green, the better. Try growing spinach. It grows like a weed and they LOVE it. You can also grow grass in tubs. Restrict apples and carrots - they contain a lot fo sugar which the rabbit just doesn't need. Make sure they have loads and loads of top quality hay to munch on at all times, that's very important for their system. I never fed mine pellets, just grass, hay and loads of dark green veggies, most lived to about 8 or 9 years old apart from Rosie who died of dog attack, and even so when she'd go see her vet, she was always saying how great Rosie looked. House rabbits are AWESOME fun! But be very, very careful to rabbit-proof the house. You'll be amazed at what they can get into!
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Our local vets are pretty good with small animals I think, I'm not sure about how they are with bunnies but they're pretty good with our pet rats :D
I''ll have to make sure that James knows to mozzie-proof the hutch when he makes it. Mum and dad managed to lose a couple of bunnies to myxo a few years back >.