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Keeping weight on rabbits..

LeahsRabbits

LeahsRabbits

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Helloo :)

I've just weighed both of my rabbits which I like to do regularly, to find out both of them have lost weight. I'm not TOO concerned but I certainly need to make diet changes to ensure they don't lose anymore.

Neither are underweight, they havn't changed in looks etc, just on the scales!!

Leo (My 5 month old Lionhead) weighs 0.9kg and Blossom (My 4 year old Lionhead mix) weighs 1.5kg.

Currently, Leo is fed on a mixture of burgess excel, A&P rabbit natural pellets and harringtons.. And Blossom is on a mix of A&P and harringtons as burgess causes him to have mucky bottoms.

They both get around half an egg cup each of pellets but i'm going to start giving them 1 full egg cup each a day, along with their normal amount of unlimited hay!

Any other suggestions would be great.
 
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Some bunnies do lose a bit of weight on A&P so it's good that you are mixing it with something else :) not sure what else to suggest really, a couple of my buns who do lose weight on A&P get some Chudleys Rabbit Pellets mixed in and that seems to balance things out.
 
silverrabbit said:
Some bunnies do lose a bit of weight on A&P so it's good that you are mixing it with something else :) not sure what else to suggest really, a couple of my buns who do lose weight on A&P get some Chudleys Rabbit Pellets mixed in and that seems to balance things out.
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I've actually taken away the burgess from Blossom now, no matter what I try he always gets mucky bottoms from it. So he's getting an egg cup of A&P with a sprinkle of Harringtons now .. I'll look into Chudleys. Hopefully he'll start to put the weight back on now i'm giving him more of it, but we'll see!
 
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