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Fat Bunny
- Thread starter SOAD
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bunnyhuggger
Warren Veteran
cut down pelleted food, fruit and any treats and up the hay, hay and more hay! :wink:
SOAD
Wise Old Thumper
Hi I should cut down on dry food, she has lots of hay already but I could up it.
She and marly has a big dog dish of dry food (russel rabbit), lots of hay and on the evening she and Marls have a large caserole dish of veg with always consists of:-
broccoli, apple, couple of segments of oranges, celery, carrot, tomatoes, a tiny bit of cucumber, spring greens and cabbage. Occasionally she has a little bit of dried brown bread. There is always dried food and hay left the next day, but never any of the veg.
She is a total free range house bun she has plenty of exercise and her favourite thing to do is run up and down the stairs, so she should be burning a lot off.
She and marly has a big dog dish of dry food (russel rabbit), lots of hay and on the evening she and Marls have a large caserole dish of veg with always consists of:-
broccoli, apple, couple of segments of oranges, celery, carrot, tomatoes, a tiny bit of cucumber, spring greens and cabbage. Occasionally she has a little bit of dried brown bread. There is always dried food and hay left the next day, but never any of the veg.
She is a total free range house bun she has plenty of exercise and her favourite thing to do is run up and down the stairs, so she should be burning a lot off.
Yep, I agree with Lynda, cut down the dry food. With all those yummy veggies she should need hardly any dry food at all 
If there is some left the next day that tends to be an indication there is too much, bunnies only need a bunny sized dish About 50g per medium sized bun per day. It does feel abit mean but veggies taste nicer anyway and are better for them and hay is great for their inside and their teeth
Tam
If there is some left the next day that tends to be an indication there is too much, bunnies only need a bunny sized dish
About 50g per medium sized bun per day. It does feel abit mean but veggies taste nicer anyway and are better for them and hay is great for their inside and their teeth Tam
touie
Wise Old Thumper
I havent had Treacle and Fudge weighed recently but I think Satins are larger than average? I weighed their food for the first time yesterday and worked out that they get through 100g of dried food each a day completely emptying the bowl! plus a piled up tea plate of veggies and lots of hay!!! :? Though they don't look over weight!
Maaike_Butter
Mama Doe
As always, Tam's totally right and beating me to it! lol
Rabbit's food should always be weighed out, really, and the same amount given every day. Dry food is only a complementary thing, anyway, the bulk of the diet should be hay, and then veggies...only at the bottom of the list do you get dry food.
Rabbit's food should always be weighed out, really, and the same amount given every day. Dry food is only a complementary thing, anyway, the bulk of the diet should be hay, and then veggies...only at the bottom of the list do you get dry food.
kimbun's mum
Banned
bunnyhuggger said:
Huh, Auntie Lynda is right again, I'm a bit chubby (mum says I am a couch potato bun) and I've been put on a diet too. Thanks to Auntie Lynda all I get now is hay, hay and more hay :roll: I'm just waiting for her to send me the Bunnyhuggger Bunny workout video :lol: :lol: :lol:
lol (not as chunky as I was) Aggie and her mum (Pam)
My bunny Pip is slightly tubby too so I've cut back on her dry food and although she eats loadsa hay, she eats even more now!! Cos she is a bit older, her fat tends to drop so you can feel her bones on top but there is this fatty bit dangling underneath!!
Since cutting down dry food she has lost weight and doesn't seem to mind the reduction. It is def the dry food that puts the weight on!!
Nicola
Since cutting down dry food she has lost weight and doesn't seem to mind the reduction. It is def the dry food that puts the weight on!!
Nicola
The reduction of the pellets should definitely help. Rob had to lose weight as he was a bit of a chunky boy - I didn't reduce his veg at all, if anything he gets slightly more, but his pellets were reduced to about 20-25 pieces of SS, twice a day (not sure what that weighs :? ).
The reduction of pellets also helped tempt him to nibble at hay/grass.
He has now lost a quarter of his body weight
- I didn't reduce his veg at all, if anything he gets slightly more, but his pellets were reduced to about 20-25 pieces of SS, twice a day (not sure what that weighs :? ).The reduction of pellets also helped tempt him to nibble at hay/grass.
He has now lost a quarter of his body weight
Maaike_Butter
Mama Doe
Yea, but muelsi mixes like Russel Rabbit are different. Just make sure you read on the bag how much you should be feeding every rabbit...
bunnyhuggger
Warren Veteran
Towsbuns said:
Yep, me too Jules, but not an awful lot more. Keeping themselves warm in colder weather burns up more energy/body fat. But it's difficult judging just how much more to give them :roll:
