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evening all

my 5 month old male un-neutered rabbit keeps doing orange wee's...

is this normal??

hes getting neutered in a few weeks btw..

Is he eating carrots?

The Duchess said:

Is he eating carrots?

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last week he had a carrot a day for about 4 days, which i found out is bad for them.. so I stopped and will only give him 1 once a week..

but that was about 4 days ago he had his last one...

I don't know of any 'technical' reasons why, but experience tells me that some buns suffer from incredibly orange wee following the consumption of carrots. Carrot coloured urine is nothing at all to be concerned about if it's indeed caused by carrots.

I can't offer any other reasons why it should be so, but I'd suggest if it doesn't stop today/tomorrow and you are worried, that you seek vet advice to check that it's not blood in the urine.

Sorry couldn't offer more help with the colour of the wee but could I suggest that it's better not to stop carrots every day but just to reduce it to a very small portion and continue to give it every day.

Here's some text from a very useful diet sheet I was given at my local rescue centre for you to have a look at. It might actually help your bunny with his wee and his poo.

"The key with a rabbit's diet is to be consistent with the portion size and what you feed so that your rabbits gut can build up the right bacteria to digest what you give them. For example, in a rabbits gut there are specific bacteria to digest the things they eat frequently so there would be specific bacteria to digest rye grass, specific bacteria to digest timothy grass, specific bacteria to digest parsley etc. In a healthy rabbit, there will be a wide range of these “good bacteria” living happily along side one another. These keep the “bad bacteria” that can cause upset tummies and infections crowded out too. But, the good bacteria only live a few days at a time and if they don’t have a job to do, digesting their specific food type, they die off. When bacteria die off, they release gas into the gut and this can cause very serious illness in rabbits such as “bloat” and “gastric stasis”. Owners assume its more interesting for the rabbit to feed a variety of foods, and this is a nice idea, but you should feed the variety inside each portion. For example, don’t feed a portion of Kale one day, a portion of cabbage the next, a portion of broccoli the next, spring greens the next etc Instead feed one portion per day consisting of a small amount of all these things."

my vet has told me to total remove store bought rabbit food from his diet as its not really good for them and stick to just tim hay and greens... does anyone else do this...

My girls get coloured wee every now and again and nothing has changed in their diet.

rabbit wee can be orangy/reddish colour caused either by what they've eaten or sometimes caused by something stressful like a new bunny in their area.