Happy Hopping
Wise Old Thumper
So far, I drop their pellet by 1/3, I'll drop some more in the next many days. But even if they move to a near pure timothy hay diet, how would a bun get rid of some of those weight?
it's winter. There is no outside. :lol:
I just start dropping the pellet today. Say the diameter of the bowl is 7", and say the surface height is just the thickness of pellet, then only about 1/3 of that surface is full. So loosely a few tablespoon for 2 buns. It's not the pellet that causes 1 of my bun to gain about 10% weight, it's the Christmas treatsSo 1 of the bun should loose 10% or so. The other 1 is fine.
In 2012, my finance is not good so I only bought 1 box of christmas cookies. And they have 1 cookie OR 1 egg roll style cookie shared between 2 rabbit during the christmas holiday. It's been like this every christmas and because it's such a small amt., and I ate most of the cookie anyway, my buns never gain any weight.
In 2013, I made good money. So for the 1st time in years, I bought 3 boxes of cookies. It's still 1 cookie OR 1 egg roll style cookie shared between 2 rabbit PER DAY during the christmas holiday. So 1 of my buns gained some weight, it's about 10%.
Starting today, I take her to the bottom of the stair, and make her run to the top of the stairs, I'll do that about 6 times today, and moves it to say 12 timer per day in the next few weeks to come.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't advise this: you are likely to end up with a very frightened rabbit. As long as your rabbits have plenty of space to run around in, and things to keep them occupied and have fun with, making them run up and down the stairs is completely unnecessary.
Perhaps you don't realise how bad human food is for rabbits? The cookies, etc will be very high in sugar and therefore bad for their teeth and their digestive systems.
Much better to give them treats of fresh or dried herbs, special hay etc.
As long as they are eating plenty of hay (should be 80-90% of their diet) and you are not giving more than an eggcupful of pellets each a day, their weight should stabilise.
I agree w/ 80 to 90% timothy hay stem, her weight will stabilize. But that wasn't her weight all these years, and if there is no exercise, she can't lost back those weight.
She's 1 of those rare bun who let me pick her up. So after I pick her up, I walk down the bottom of the stair, and let her hop back up. Alternatively, I can put treat upstair and let her run upstair for it. That works the same way
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