So in these parts, this IS the feed of choice for show Cali's, basically, if your NOT feeding this, your not even considered a contender..
1/4 cup crimped oats/barley 50/50 conditioning mix with black oil sunflower seeds
(My conditioning mix is contains 50% crimped oats + 50% crimped barley + 7-10 sunflower seeds per cup. however, you start off feeding 1/4 cup for 4 bunnies then over 7 days work up to 1/4 a cup each.)
1 tablespoon Doc's Rabbit Enhancer
(1 tablespoon for 4 buns then over a week work up to a tablespoon each)
Some people give a teaspoon of pure calf manna to their buns, I do not becausethe Petrus 700B comes with Calf Manna.
Mine also get a 4 way acid pack in their water, which is slam full of vitamins and electrolytes. It is essential for babies and nursing mothers, I wouldn't be without it.
Something else, which I don't actually know if this applies to other breeds, and I don't actually know if it is true, but what I do know, is at the show table, all of my Cali's noses and ear marking's are almost pitch black. They are given a carrot every day. I am told the beta carotene does this. Like I said, I don't know if it is true. But I do know, I can pick my buns out from every one else's, by site alone, not by ear tags, so it is a theory I am not willing to disprove.
For some of my buns who are a bit on the picky side, they get the crimped oats/barley/sunflower mixture with the addition of wheat germ oil and cheerios. BUT a dab will do ya on the oil... you can not only blow there coats, you can give em the bunny runs...and the Cheerio's can slap on weight, they are usually only reserved for underweight bun's who need to make weight.
Actually, as far as the fur goes, my buns are notorious for their sleek silky fur and stellar coloring.. never had a *blowout* as we call them..or a "shedding/molt" problem.
The judges always comment on my buns fur, and actually go on and on. I can toot my own horn and say if you mixed mine in with a bunch of others.. I can still pick mine out by sight alone..
