Baby rabbits - what to feed?

My friend has bought two baby rabbits which are 8 weeks old. They have been fed on Excel adult rabbit pellets. Also, they were in a pound with guinea pigs and their food was mixed up - if indeed they had separate food.

Friend now wonders if she should change their food slowly to baby rabbit food or is it OK to stick with adult stuff. Also, she was told that the batch they came from had an intolerance to greenstuffs as they had not been fed any. I wondered if other customers had complained about their baby buns having loose stools due to the fact that they hadn't had greens before.

Advice please!

I fed both Phoebe & Piper on Excel junior as babys (esp phoebe as adult phoebe tended to make his bum sticky) I also fed Holli this till she was about 4 month old.
You could try them on a tiny bit of green to see how they handle it, and common sense tells u if they end up with sticky bums they cant have it

Hmmm. I dont feed excell but maybe worth changing the babs slowly onto the junior pellets which has higher fibre (i think!!) Also make sure thy are getting enough good quality hay to eat 24/7

I very strongly doubt they are intollerent to veg, probably more like they have never had it before. Just introduce veg very slowly with small pieces at a time, probably no more than quarter of a cabbage leaf sized portion to start with then once they start to accept the new food you can gradually increase veg portions.

Junior excel all the way Nibbles & Bobby are on that, and Nibbles is 2 years old now! The adult stuff gives her a sticky bum.

I am thinking I answered this in your other thread - but "popped by" to say that I hope all is sorted soon!

TP

Thanks to everyone for answering. I did realise after I posted that it should have been in a different section and as she was so concerned, copied the text over to another thread.

My friend went into a garden centre on Saturday for some plants and ended up with two baby bunnies! Not perhaps the most considered of purchases, but she felt sorry for them. And after she described them being in a place which doubles as a dog and cattery (so lots of barking), a garden centre and with pets on the side, I think she did the right thing. They were in a compound with guinea pigs and all were eating the same pellets, so the GPs probably weren't getting their specialised food either, and the babies were being fed adult pellets. The guy said that they didn't do big bags of junior pellets, so he fed them what he had!! He didn't sound like the sharpest knife in the block!

The babies are both fluffy lops and sound adorable. She has them outside in a hutch with attached run on concrete and they seem happy enough. She was concerned because the larger of the two had lots of poops stuck on her bum and both had matted fur. She said they were really content being groomed and intends to do that every day or so as it will help them get used to her handling them.

I think that she may have fed them too much initially as a friend told her that 'rabbits will self-regulate with food and only eat as much as they need'!!!!!! (obviously someone who doesn't have a rabbit!) so the excess poops might have been night pellets and not runny poo.

Either way, she is going to keep them on Excel just now and see if their poops settle down. She won't give them greens until the pellet situation is settled, then see how it goes.

Hopefully they will be fine.