funnybunnymummy
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I posted a few weeks ago asking about feeding beet pulp:
http://rabbitsonline.net/view_topic.php?id=60526&forum_id=48&jump_to=811126#p811126
Anyway, Gus has only been on it for a few days, but I thought I'd post an update.
The woman at the feed store seemed to think feeding beet pulp to rabbits would be totally fine. "It's just fibre," she said.
I bought plain beet pulp. It comes in a fairly large pellet (about double the diameter of wood stove pellets). It's purplish-grey in colour andsmells like, well, beets! It's not very dusty either. So no allergy response at all!
It's also VERY hard.It takes Gus a while tocrunch upa pellet (vs. his rabbit pellets, which I don't even know if he chews sometimes!). Soit should keep him busy at night.
I gave him one pellet at first, just to see what he'd do. He must've thought it was a rabbit pellet, because it barely touched his dish and he'd gobbled it up. He sat there chewing for several seconds then he got this look on his face like, "What are you trying to feed me????"
Anyway, I left him a few pellets in his dish that night and they were gone in the morning. I gave him a few more that morning with his breakfast. He ate them sometime between breakfast and lunch.
Right now, I'm still introducing them to him, but I'm planning to increase the amount he's getting to at bedtime until there's still some left over in the morning. I'm not sure how much that will be. Maybe between 1/4 and a 1/2 C?
He still gets his hay during the day. We had a thunderstorm roll through after dinner, but he wanted to stay out and eat his hay, even though it started to rain. Silly rabbit! (Don't worry, there weren't any lightning strikes close by!)
Rue
http://rabbitsonline.net/view_topic.php?id=60526&forum_id=48&jump_to=811126#p811126
Anyway, Gus has only been on it for a few days, but I thought I'd post an update.
The woman at the feed store seemed to think feeding beet pulp to rabbits would be totally fine. "It's just fibre," she said.
I bought plain beet pulp. It comes in a fairly large pellet (about double the diameter of wood stove pellets). It's purplish-grey in colour andsmells like, well, beets! It's not very dusty either. So no allergy response at all!
It's also VERY hard.It takes Gus a while tocrunch upa pellet (vs. his rabbit pellets, which I don't even know if he chews sometimes!). Soit should keep him busy at night.
I gave him one pellet at first, just to see what he'd do. He must've thought it was a rabbit pellet, because it barely touched his dish and he'd gobbled it up. He sat there chewing for several seconds then he got this look on his face like, "What are you trying to feed me????"
Anyway, I left him a few pellets in his dish that night and they were gone in the morning. I gave him a few more that morning with his breakfast. He ate them sometime between breakfast and lunch.
Right now, I'm still introducing them to him, but I'm planning to increase the amount he's getting to at bedtime until there's still some left over in the morning. I'm not sure how much that will be. Maybe between 1/4 and a 1/2 C?
He still gets his hay during the day. We had a thunderstorm roll through after dinner, but he wanted to stay out and eat his hay, even though it started to rain. Silly rabbit! (Don't worry, there weren't any lightning strikes close by!)
Rue