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Weird big poop?

carysannie29

Young Bun
My bunny has spent over a month now recovering from a head tilt. She's improving and holding herself up more so that's all good news.
When she was poorly I was syringe feeding her because she wasn't eating anything on her own and she lost lots of weight. In the past couple of weeks she's been eating kale, celery and a few other veggies and herbs so I've just been feeding her whatever she wants really. In the last few days she's been eating some pellets too and the occasional strand of hay.

But this morning I got home from my shift and was in feeding her and cleaning her bum (because after a 12.5 hour night shift what else would I rather do?!) and she was producing some very strange poops. Not round or dry, but not diarrhoea either. Without being too graphic they were a bit similar to human poops, quite big (for her) and smelt a bit bad :S

Is this just because she's been eating nothing really but veggies? I'm stuck at what to do because I need her to start gaining her weight but don't want to upset her tummy too much.

Thanks!
 
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I think I would be inclined to feed her with pellets and hay to see how she responds to this for a few days. Then if she starts producing normal poops all well and good but if not, you need to think again. Is she a dental bunny?
 
I had the same thing happen when mine had had a few dandelions too many. I didn't know which rabbit had done the nasty poop, so I fed them nothing but hay + the occasional pellet for a few days. Pretty soon their poo was back to normal :wave: So yeah, definitely try to get her to eat more hay.
 
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