Jinny
Young Bun
This is a sort of follow on thread to all of the others, about my 12yr old (13 in April) un-neutered, pet, indoor, Netherland Dwarf, male bunny, but I felt it was worth separating, for ease of other people, who may be searching.
Since he has been ill, he has gone off all of his food, even the treat foods. He is just starting to show interest now, after yesterday, stealing, much to my surprise, a bite of my French Stick, that I was nibbling while feeding him. The only other food he wants to eat, is fresh romaine, or carrot - which he can't have, because fresh makes him ill.
He has basically been syringe fed every 2-3hours around the clock, on Oxbrow Critical Care, and Supreme Recovery liquid feeds, since December 21st. He maintained his weight well, until about 3 weeks ago, when his bladder infection really got bad, and due to constant diarrhea, and the anti-biotics, his weight just fell off, and you can feel all his bones now. He's like a fur covered skeleton now.
But now his Diarrhea has stopped, and he's showing interest in his food dish again - other than banging the full dish, to tell me it's feeding time! - I want to start building his body weight back up gently..... so my question is how?
His normal daily feed is:
All of this fits in one bunny sized bowl, and he'd eat a fair bit of that every day - usually there was just dust, and a few Bunny Basics T Pellets, left 24hours later.
If he has anything fresh in terms of vegetables or fruit - within 20mins he has really bad Diarrhea, so he's long since been on small amounts of the dried stuff a day. If I give him too much of the dried, he gets a runny tummy too.
The items from Vitakraft are things I generally consider Junk Food, and the Burgess pellets, were only added when he was last ill and lost interest in eating and went on normal food strike, and would only eat the junk. He slowly went back onto eating the larger amount of Burgess Pellets - but now he won't eat any of it, but a couple of bits of the Boredom Breaker Herbs Plus, and Nature Salad.
Any advice you can give me, on how to build him up slowly, would be great.
Thanks in advance.
Since he has been ill, he has gone off all of his food, even the treat foods. He is just starting to show interest now, after yesterday, stealing, much to my surprise, a bite of my French Stick, that I was nibbling while feeding him. The only other food he wants to eat, is fresh romaine, or carrot - which he can't have, because fresh makes him ill.
He has basically been syringe fed every 2-3hours around the clock, on Oxbrow Critical Care, and Supreme Recovery liquid feeds, since December 21st. He maintained his weight well, until about 3 weeks ago, when his bladder infection really got bad, and due to constant diarrhea, and the anti-biotics, his weight just fell off, and you can feel all his bones now. He's like a fur covered skeleton now.
But now his Diarrhea has stopped, and he's showing interest in his food dish again - other than banging the full dish, to tell me it's feeding time! - I want to start building his body weight back up gently..... so my question is how?
His normal daily feed is:
- Bunny Basics T pellets
- A pinch of Burgess Senior Bunny Pellets
- A pinch of Naturals Boredom Breakers Herbs Plus
- A pinch of Naturals Boredom Breakers Nature's Salad
- 2 Naturals Boredom Breakers Fenugreek Crunchies
- 2 sticks of Supreme Bladder Support Feed
- 2 Vitakraft Lofty's pillows
- 2 Vitakraft Alfalfa biscuit rings
- A pinch of Ocean Spray Craisins
- 3 quarters of a Supreme Joint Support Biscuit
- As much hay and Western Timothy Hay as he wanted
- 0.6mls of Metatone Tonic
- Drinking about 120mls - 150mls of water a day from a bowl
All of this fits in one bunny sized bowl, and he'd eat a fair bit of that every day - usually there was just dust, and a few Bunny Basics T Pellets, left 24hours later.
If he has anything fresh in terms of vegetables or fruit - within 20mins he has really bad Diarrhea, so he's long since been on small amounts of the dried stuff a day. If I give him too much of the dried, he gets a runny tummy too.
The items from Vitakraft are things I generally consider Junk Food, and the Burgess pellets, were only added when he was last ill and lost interest in eating and went on normal food strike, and would only eat the junk. He slowly went back onto eating the larger amount of Burgess Pellets - but now he won't eat any of it, but a couple of bits of the Boredom Breaker Herbs Plus, and Nature Salad.
Any advice you can give me, on how to build him up slowly, would be great.
Thanks in advance.