I kinda need some help/advice please, as much as possible!
My mums neighbour asked her yesterday if she wanted a rabbit (my mum is known for taking in waifs and strays so this is why she was asked) well mum has been wanting a rabbit for a while so she said yes.
The neighbour told us she has only had the rabbit 'a few weeks' and it's 8 weeks old. So she either has the age wrong or had a rabbit that shouldn't have been given away. She wanted to get rid of the bunny because the children thought it was ugly That left me speechless!
Anyway we went to collect bun who was in a single story 4ft cage with NO hay, tiny bit of straw and was being fed weetabix and bread :shock:
The bunny (now called Pippin) is absolutely gorgeous and so friendly, she fell asleep in my arms and kept flopping out in my arms with her back legs stretched out!
I am no good at telling the age of a rabbit so dont know if she is really 8 weeks or not.
Anyway I have never had a baby/young rabbit before, mine have always been at least 1 year when I have adopted them, plus I've never had a netherland dwarf.
So I have some questions.........
1. How much should she weigh? We weighed her and she was 607g
2. What and how much should we be feeding her? I have wagg pellets for my buns and we gave her those but she wasn't really interested. We also gave her a tiny piece of cabbage which she ate.
And we gave her tons of hay which she has been nomming all day.
Does she need pellets for dwarf or young rabbits? Or is Wagg ok?
3. She will be off to the vets this week so we can register her and get her first check up done but what age will she need her first vaccs? Does she just need myxi and vhd? Or any others like 'starter' jabs?
4. What age can she be spayed at? As we would like to get her a husbun eventually.
5. Is there any other info you can give us on keeping a tiny little nethi happy??
Thank you for reading all of that, any replies welcome. x
My mums neighbour asked her yesterday if she wanted a rabbit (my mum is known for taking in waifs and strays so this is why she was asked) well mum has been wanting a rabbit for a while so she said yes.
The neighbour told us she has only had the rabbit 'a few weeks' and it's 8 weeks old. So she either has the age wrong or had a rabbit that shouldn't have been given away. She wanted to get rid of the bunny because the children thought it was ugly That left me speechless!
Anyway we went to collect bun who was in a single story 4ft cage with NO hay, tiny bit of straw and was being fed weetabix and bread :shock:
The bunny (now called Pippin) is absolutely gorgeous and so friendly, she fell asleep in my arms and kept flopping out in my arms with her back legs stretched out!
I am no good at telling the age of a rabbit so dont know if she is really 8 weeks or not.
Anyway I have never had a baby/young rabbit before, mine have always been at least 1 year when I have adopted them, plus I've never had a netherland dwarf.
So I have some questions.........
1. How much should she weigh? We weighed her and she was 607g
2. What and how much should we be feeding her? I have wagg pellets for my buns and we gave her those but she wasn't really interested. We also gave her a tiny piece of cabbage which she ate.
And we gave her tons of hay which she has been nomming all day.
Does she need pellets for dwarf or young rabbits? Or is Wagg ok?
3. She will be off to the vets this week so we can register her and get her first check up done but what age will she need her first vaccs? Does she just need myxi and vhd? Or any others like 'starter' jabs?
4. What age can she be spayed at? As we would like to get her a husbun eventually.
5. Is there any other info you can give us on keeping a tiny little nethi happy??
Thank you for reading all of that, any replies welcome. x
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