New bunnie pooping WAY too much...

[Shadows_Girl]

So I just fed my rabbit carrotts and a piece of celery and he sat on my lap for not even 2minutes and I had more then 15 little poops all over me. Normally its only like 4. This is the second time its happend. Whats up?? He has a vet app next weekend, the petstore gave me a certificate for one free visit. They cancelled this weekends, but I got another one for next sat. Anyone haveany ideas??

 

[Nicky Snow]

lots of poop is good. as long as the poops are regular sized. and not to dry or wet. my bunny Kweli is a poop machine. 15 poops are nothing for her.

Nicole

 

[rabbitgirl]

Very normal!New rabbits do it even more because they are feeling uncertain about their territory--and young rabbits have much less control than adults. Oh, and males have a major thing about pooping all over. Give it time and much of that should settle, although my 2-yr.-old STILL likes to leave lots and lots of presents--but he's not neutered, so he thinks I'm his girlfriend aka territory.

Has he hit puberty yet (what breed, and how old)?

Rose

 

[naturestee]

Sounds like you've been claimed!

Like Nicky said, it's normal as long as the poops look normal.

 

[TinysMom]

I'm a little bit concerned about the fact that you're feeding a 9 week old bunny carrots and a piece of celery. I don't have the exact information in front of me - but I was thinking that 4 months was the recommended age adn that 6 months was even better. However, it is late at night and I can't remember for sure. Please understand....I'm NOT criticizing...just concerned about your bunny. (I did have one bunny that snuck from Tiny's salad at a young age and he was just fine).

I would suggest that if you see some diaherrea (sp?) develop in the next couple of days...you feed a small amount of oats (oatmeal - usually the long cooking kind - but uncooked) or hay. This tends to help the rabbits stop have diaherrea (although it is not a cure-all).

Peg

 

[rabbitgirl]

Just wanted to add that I began very small amounts of greens for my 4-wk.-old Pals, on up through their adolescence and adulthood--with no problems whatever. by nine weeks they were like little piranhas when the greens appeared. However, my Hollands are touchier and tend to react to greens/carrots. Weird.

Did someone mention the strings of celery being bad? I can't remember. Peg's right about the oatmeal, and I've had excellent luck with de-spined raspberry and blackberry leaves (stupid winter!).

Rose

 

[northerndancer]

My bunny started pooping more and more to claim territory as she went from 2 months to 4 months and I had her neutered at 6 months which stopped the problem. Similar experience with my unneutered male when I introduced him to my neutered female it was like an explosion in a ball bearing factory but again stopped on neutering!

Liz

 

[rabbitgirl]

northerndancer wrote:

Similar experience with my unneutered male when I introduced him to my neutered female it was like an explosion in a ball bearing factory

That is absolutely the best description I've ever heard.

:rofl:

Rose