Today I went out to go and see my rabbits and when I came up to the cage of one of my female rabbits named Chocolatechip her three babies came and welcomed me, but although she came to the front of the cage she was not as excited as she usually is and so I brought her inside but all she did was lay around and she wouldn't eat anything. Finally I got her to eat some regular food and she is moving around a bit. It has been very rainy lately and I do not know if that could be the problem or if she just had a stomach ache, for I took her off the regular food and had her eating straight grass for a while.
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Help sick rabbit
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helgalush
Wise Old Thumper
Rabbits need hay all the time. What you do with her diet besides this will have an effect, if for instance you just stopped feeding her pellets/muesli one day and replaced that with grass, which is what it sounded like, but sorry if thats not what you meant. Going off any aspect of her food is definitely worrying, and I agree with GrahamL that she needs to see a vet.
Is she still feeding her babies?
Is she still feeding her babies?
I will put her back on the hay again and see if I can get an appointment with the vet, but her babies are now wined and the changing of her dieted took months to do.
helgalush
Wise Old Thumper
Oh I see. Yes she definitely needs hay all the time, 80-90% of their diet should be hay, then whatever else you are feeding (pellets, muesli, grass, veggies etc). Definitely get her to see the vet - not eating is likely secondary to some sort of pain, and in itself is one of the first signs of gut stasis. Good luck.
