:wave: Hi!
She sounds adorable!
Giving her hay is the most important thing - as thier diets needs to be 80-90% hay! So thats great!:thumb: You can get different types of hay - timothy is great - mine love that - as well as the usual meadow hay. You can buy this in a bale for about £7 and it lasts for ages...great for winter too as you can heap loads in for her to snuggle and burrow into without worrying about the cost and of course it will encourage her to eat more. Make a hols in a carboard box...fill it with hay and watch her burrow:lol:
An egg cup sounds fine...but if she is an outdoor bunny - make sure she gets enough to build herself up ready for winter and also as she is young she is growing. I would weigh her and keep an eye on her weight to see how she does.
Of course if you feed her too many nuggets she will get a runny tummy. and also be too full up to graze on her hay - which is what you want her to be doing most of the time.
Bless her- half-one carrot a day is just too much for her. Its too high in calcium and should only be fed in small quatities. One of my buns is fine with things but the others really battle - so I feed them nuggets (high fibre ones) and hay hay hay!!!
A mix of meadow hay, timothy & rye and INGS (wetlands hay) and dried foraged foods...like hawthorn, apple leaves & branches, sunflower leaves, brambles herbs etc.
Only occasionally do I give them a bit of banana, carrot etc...of course they adore it but it makes their tums upset so most of the time they dont get it. I try to give them as much as a wild diet as possible and it works wonders. I have given vege before...a very slow introduction, but still found theyreally battled...esp. like cabbage & brocooli and brussel sprouts...all quite gassy foods...of course each bun is different and small treat for mine are fine, but i dont feed it daily..or even weekly.
Of course encouraging chewing of twigs..like apple branches and hawthorn is great for their teeth...great fibre too. and whenever they started to get interested in some furniture..I would stick a fresh branch under their noses and mine free range indoors and dont chew anything but their own stuff and their sticks....(touch wood!)
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As she grows up abit she can have abit more nuggets...but think of it like this..someone on RU said: Hay is their main meal and nuggets is dessert...the only reason we feed commercial nuggets is to make sure their diets has enough nutrients etc to enable a balanced diet. In the wild they would have more options...but they are grazers and grass/hay is what they need...it enables their systems to function properly and keeps their teeth ground down. Bunnies teeth never stop growing so they grinding motion of their back teeth whilst eating hay helps this and is very important.
is she eating her ceacotrophs?
Thats the poop you see when she has a messy bum...otherwise it should look like loads of tiny grapes all in a sausae shape...she should eat this straight from her bum...if you see any laying about she is prob having too many nuggets or veges and so feels she doesnt need them....but its important she does eat them ...the only poop you should see is the waste poop...it should be crumbly in consistency. Keeping an eye on your bunnies poops will tell you alot about how her system is doing, how her health is. Im always inspecting the poops! and can always tell when they have had abit too much of something....their little faces say "Im starving....Im going to run in little circles and tell you give me more give me more...Im SOOOOOOOOOOOO hungry!":lol:
buuut don tfsll for it...mine now do that when I get them apple leave and GOOD treats! in fact anything thats edible and tasty!:lol:
I thought Id mention drinking....giving them a bottle is great as oyu know they have fresh water...thats nnot be spilled or wee'd in etc...but a bowl, I think, is a must...purely because they drink more water this way...it more natural for them. Mine drink alot more at night too....I fill mine up twice in one evening.
Im not sure about her sneezing...but if she is on sawdust then replace that - sawdust is a huge problem for bunnies...its full of phenols and can cause respiratory problems...as they are small animals and are close to the ground - they breather it in and it can cause issues. You can use aubiose (hemp - about £10 for a massive bag - its horse bedding and works really well) or megazorb...or carefresh (expensive)....I tried some but mine ate it so now use aubiose and it smells great and works well...it keeps the buns feet dry as the wee soaks to the bottom. and you can compost it.
I'd love to see more piccies of her!Your pic is so cute! and her name? sorry its so long...
:lol: I hope it helps!:wave: