What to feed young bunny?

[Chocoteddy0]

What should I feed my likkle bunny? Can he live off carrots, apples and grass?

 

[pinksalamander]

Carrots and apples have far too much sugar and should only be fed as a treat. Get some normal rabbit pellets and keep hay/grass constantly available. Try feeding greener vegetables, although not too green. Anything like cucumber or iceberg lettuce is too watery. Cauliflower stalks or brocolli is good because its not too watery.

 

[Chocoteddy0]

Thanks!

 

[Bo B Bunny]

He needs hay and pellets if you can get them. Also the greens are good for him but he cannot live on that only really.

 

[Chocoteddy0]

Yeah, I have pellets but he doesn't like to eat them. And I use grass instead of hay, cos I heard thats okay.

 

[tamsin]

Grass is fine instead of hay aslong as that is what he's used to. Introducing grass suddenly can upset their tummy. It's handy to have hay as well and it's easy to store and suppliment grass with. Which ever use use he needs to have constant 24/7 access to it as rabbits eat all the time. That's why hay can be handy as it's not always practical to have rabbits on grass all the time. You also need a large area as the eat through it and you'll need to move the run around.

Rabbits would usually eat other plants with grass so thats why you feed pellets to get the extra vitamins/minerals. Do you have different pellets brands available - he might prefer a different type.

Herbs are better than fruit eg parsley, basil, sage etc.

Tam

 

[Chocoteddy0]

Thanks! I'll try the herbs. At last - my bunny is eating pellets! though she splatted loads of water over them and ate the mush. Odd...:?