The banana issue. Ok, hands up. We feed ours very cheaply. We have a greengrocer/fruiterer just around the corner from us who leaves big boxes of the outside leaves of spring greens, cauliflower, cabbage etc out most days so when we get low we just grab a box no charge. Anything even remotely "iffy" goes straight in the bin. I got to up to 8 car boots on a saturday and sunday and at one is a chap who works in a fruit market. We started off by buying 8 bananas for 50p, graduating to a carrier bag full for a quid. We now buy them by the box for £2 :shock: ! I've just counted them
shock: ) and this week we got 82 large bananas, though sometimes with smaller ones we've had over 130. We supplement this with carrots from Tesco or Asda (approx £2 a week) and their sacks of dried food which we order specially in and are the cheapest we can get, although still with comparable fibre content to Burgess Super etc and also pick carrier bags full of grass from the car boots as and when available.
So to summarise, ours will get a cup of dried food,and two from half a banana each, half a carrot and a handful of greens and naturally copious amounts of hay. I wouldn't consider any of ours to be unhealthy or overweight, they usually go for the banana first so the rest of the food "washes" them down ie sugar is not sticking to their teeth in the same way it would if they ate it last.
I'm telling you all this because someone mentioned recently that it probably wasn't a good idea to admit feeding bananas every day to which I agreed. Every time we visit another forum member they do and will continue to get bananas from us largely because we get them so cheaply.
If anyone thinks I am compromising the health of my rabbits by giving them bananas I invite sensible debate
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Neil
