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larger bunnies and food

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sparklefairy

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Is it normal for a large ish bunny of around 8-9 months of age to eat non stop?
How much should he be eating? The only experience of big buns I have is of storm, who was a french lop. The only time he ate non stop was when he was still growing. Is it possible that benny is still growing? :shock: I am not sure what kind of bunny he is.

This is Benny :love:







he also drinks more than any bun I have ever known. Is this normal for a big bunny?
 
*bump*

I don't know much, but I think it looks like he has some growing to do, judging by the size on those ears...

He could be a conti or conti cross?

He's lovely!

:love:
 
I reckon most bunnies would like to be eating non-stop! :lol::lol: I have a NZW and she gets a small amount of food, lots of hay. She is 4 and a half now and I know she would eat and eat. How much does your rabbit eat approximately? Once they have stopped growing they only need a small amount of food (apart from hay) for maintenance (according to Sandy Crook lady who wrote a book on Lop Rabbits and is quite knowledgeable). Obviously you don't want him to get overweight and once put on it isn't easy to take it off again I don't know how long you have had him but I have noticed some of the new bunnies drink an awful lot for a while then they become more normal drinkers.
 
He looks very very very very much like a conti to me! How much does he weigh?

In my experience Contis are very food orientated, so he might not grow out of it!
 
For comparison this was my Farore

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She was small for a conti at around 4ish kgs. So she might have been a cross but both me and her foster mum (catherine09) think she was pure conti just a little one, she was very conti like in character!
 
I have only had him since Sunday. :D

He weighs just under 5kg but he is very long.

Aww farore looks beautiful :love: and very much like my benny:love:
 
sparklefairy said:
I have only had him since Sunday. :D

He weighs just under 5kg but he is very long.

Aww farore looks beautiful :love: and very much like my benny:love:
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At 8 months he will still have some growing to do, I really think you have a greedy guts conti there! :love:
 
Eeep :shock: I think I need to invest in some bigger bales of hay, not sure those little bags of posh hay are going to cut it ( plus I will need to sell a kidney or something ) :lol:
 
:lol::lol::lol:

It's not so bad once he is grown up! Like all buns most of their food is hay, but yeah I was feeding baled hay when I had Farore so way cheaper than the bagged stuff... My 3 are on wilkos and b&m hay with some treat hays from zooplus now as the place I bought the bales from got really dusty :( it would have been much harder to buy enough hay for all 4 of them from a shop!
 
Yes. Bigger rabbits certainly put it away. My two belgian hares easily eat as much as the quad (all lionhead x).

Benny looks amazing. Hope they settle together.
 
I usually get hay from the hay experts, oxbow and alfalfa king timothy. Are hay for pets any good? Large bales are needed now:lol:

Aurora and benny are ignoring each other at the moment. Benny wants to be friends but aurora skips off. Benny is really respectful and doesn't chase her . I hope they make friends soon.
 
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