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Poopy tail- diet related?

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Emmy131

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My rabbit has been getting faeces stuck to her tail and bottoms of her legs, They have a large hutch to run around in, and I clean them almost every 2-3 days. She is on the larger side but I'm not sure how to cut her food down as she lives with a male...

I think shes getting this because shes eating most of the pellets, whereas my male doesn't get it and must be eating most the hay...I leave the bowl in there for them as I'm out all day so can't take it out after i've put it in

Can anyone advise how I would either cut down the pellets without making my male loose weight or without her eating all the pellets to herself?
 
Adult buns should only be getting a handful of pellets once a day, I recommend reducing the pellets dramatically. If you're worried about hay, heap it up, enough for them to burrow into, huge piles of it.
 
Can you give them pellets just once or twice a day? Rabbits don't need a lot of pellets, usually 1 egg cup full per day is enough for one rabbit and the rest of their diet is mostly hay.

I give my guys a handful or two of pellets per day (but not all at once, mine do better if it's spread out throughout the day) and they gobble it down in minutes. They have hay all day so they don't need access to pellets too, or they'd just eat the pellets and ignore the hay.
 
I weren't sure about dramatically reducing as I know rabbits are sensitive to change. So would it be best to give them a small handful in the morning and then another small handful in the evening?
 
What brand of pellets are you using?

Change in the form of food additions can certainly cause gut upset, but as you are already experiencing a case of a bun with gut upset, removing a possible cause could only serve to improve matters! It will also encourage her to eat her hay and improve her gut in that respect too.
 
You are right that they are sensitive to change, so if you gradually reduce the pellets until they are on a handful in the morning and another in the evening that would be fine. Some veg can cause them to have a messy bottom too, particularly carrot, as it is sweet, so I would reduce veg if they have a lot of that too. You could scatter the pellets in the hay to make them search for them, it might encourage them to eat more hay too :thumb:
 
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