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Poo

Hi, me and my boyfriend have been having an argument about rabbit poo for months now (sad I know) So I thought I would ask the question on here. Do rabbit eat their sloppy poo or their firm poos?
Thanks
Kirsty
 
mine eat all their soft but I caught sooty tucking into a really big dry poo which is a little annoying as I think it would probably have won the giant poo thread thats around somewhere (it seemed to be about 2cm wide when squished so It must have been quite big when normal)
 
Well, they tend to release like cluster poo, or grapes I call it that is sloppy and mucus like...

This is still packed with goodness and they should scoff this up.

Then you have the semi hard ones.. like normal to us that they eat these too I find...

So in truth I say they eat both types ..

:D
 
"Three to eight hours after eating, and thus mainly at night, soft, mucus-covered caecal pellets are expelled and eaten directly from the anus (a process known as caecotrophy, coprophagy, refection, or pseudorumination). "

http://www.aquavet.i12.com/Rabbit.htm

There you go, factual sounding things never fail to win an argument. :lol:
I've never seen mine eat a hard poo.
 
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