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Feeding two buns? Advice needed please

zayna1

zayna1

Warren Scout
Hi. Just wanted to know, when you have two buns living together, how do you feed them the right amount of dry pellets? According the the feeding guidelines on the food bag, it says to feed the smaller one 95g per day, and the larger one 120g per day. Is it even possible to get them to keep to their own bowls? (considering they're going to be outside buns in a hutch?) I know they need a constant supply of water and hay...and this they can share, however I do want them to have the amount of pellets required, and neither of them eat all of their pellets in one go. :S
 
I find that I put mine together and they share OK however if you find one becoming territorial or dominant and greedy you might have to scatter them to enable the other bun a chance to find an equal share, gives them something to do foraging aswell.

It's worth hand feeding greens aswell to guage whether one is greedier than the other and eating all the best bits - I tend to put their greens either side of the dried food bowl which is big enough to allow them both access equally at once - quite often they run to each other's allocation or eat the same bit from either end and touch noses as they meet at the end of the kale strand :lol: They don't seem to be greedy or dominant but, I think if I noticed they were I would hand feed greens and scatter pellets around. Just make sure the bowl is big enough for both to eat together.:wave:
 
If you give them two bowls and put them about 6 inches apart you should find they eat out of them seperately. This relies on them wanting the food when you give it to them, so if you feed too much you may find they don't eat it quickly and then they will both just eat it when they feel like it
 
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