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BunnySilver

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Silver has always been very excited for his food ever since I switched him over (many months ago), but lately I've been noticing it more than usual. He is a Netherland Dwarf, a little over a year old, and gets 1/8 cups of pellets in the morning, and a solid cups of greens at night. I feed him the Oxbow Adult Rabbit Food and organic greens with unlimited Timothy hay (which he loves) of course.

The bag says to feed 1/8 of a cup to bunnies his size (he's around 2-3 lbs) and every vet I have been to enforces the same. He just seems … hungrier than usual and was even grunting continuously away while running around extraordinarily quick to pick up the pellets I scattered around while chomping down on his dinner yesterday.

I am just wondering if I am feeding enough because I know he would eat the whole bucket if I gave it to him, but a few family members have been giving me grief about how I'm "starving" him :p

Thank you in advance
 
How does he look and feel? Can you feel his bones, do they stick out sharply? A bunny in good weight should have a spine and ribs that can be felt, but with a layer of flesh that can be moved over the bones easily.
 
He looks perfectly fine, and feels alright too. I can feel his larger bones, but there is definitely a good layer of skin and fur over them.
 
As long as he is maintaining a good weight and body condition, what you are feeding sounds just fine. Most rabbits LOVE their pellets and will always act like you are starving them to death when it comes to them and their treats. As long as a bun always has access to a good quality hay and is staying at a healthy weight, they don't need to be getting more pellets than what they are currently doing well on. Lots of hay is good for them anyways. Good for teeth and a good activity to prevent boredom.

You can usually tell if a bun is at a good weight by feeling along the sides of the spine and around the hips. If the flesh along the sides of the spine fills nice and rounded and filled in, and there is flesh around the hips and nothing feels too boney or angular, then the rabbit isn't too thin.
http://www.therabbithouse.com/diet/rabbit-weight.asp
 
Okay thank you so much! I thought he was fine, but just wanted to double check and make sure! :)
 

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