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Gnawing Stone for Healthy Teeth

Hi,

Rabbits don't need and should't have gnawing stones for wearing teeth. The only thing they need for teeth wearing is hay (or grass). Rabbits chew with a different (and better) chewing pattern when eating hay compared to eating things like pellets or musli. Furthermore grass and hay contains silicas to help with teethwearing. So lots and lots of hay or grass is the best thing to wear a rabbits teeth properly:)

Chewing stones also often contains calcium and rabbits excrete excess calcium that they don't need in the urine. This means that if given too much calcium a rabbit could get urinary problems like sludge and stones in the bladder.

However rabbits like to chew so to keep them busy and happy it's a good idea to give some twigs from safe trees like apple or willow:) This doesn't wear the back teeth though (that's the hays job) but it helps prevent boredom:)
 
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Walli said:
Hi,

Rabbits don't need and should't have gnawing stones for wearing teeth. The only thing they need for teeth wearing is hay (or grass). Rabbits chew with a different (and better) chewing pattern when eating hay compared to eating things like pellets or musli. Furthermore grass and hay contains silicas to help with teethwearing. So lots and lots of hay or grass is the best thing to wear a rabbits teeth properly:)

Chewing stones also often contains calcium and rabbits excrete excess calcium that they don't need in the urine. This means that if given too much calcium a rabbit could get urinary problems like sludge and stones in the bladder.

However rabbits like to chew so to keep them busy and happy it's a good idea to give some twigs from safe trees like apple or willow:) This doesn't wear the back teeth though (that's the hays job) but it helps prevent boredom:)
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Excellent advice :thumb:
 
Walli said:
Hi,

Rabbits don't need and should't have gnawing stones for wearing teeth. The only thing they need for teeth wearing is hay (or grass). Rabbits chew with a different (and better) chewing pattern when eating hay compared to eating things like pellets or musli. Furthermore grass and hay contains silicas to help with teethwearing. So lots and lots of hay or grass is the best thing to wear a rabbits teeth properly:)

Chewing stones also often contains calcium and rabbits excrete excess calcium that they don't need in the urine. This means that if given too much calcium a rabbit could get urinary problems like sludge and stones in the bladder.

However rabbits like to chew so to keep them busy and happy it's a good idea to give some twigs from safe trees like apple or willow:) This doesn't wear the back teeth though (that's the hays job) but it helps prevent boredom:)
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InspectorMorse said:
Excellent advice :thumb:
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Thank you!!! This has cleared it all up perfectly!!!
 
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