Wiserabbit
Young Bun
Well Juno and Verity will be arriving with us next week. Their house is now taking over most of the lounge as we upsized having read the advice here.
Now I have a question about food!
I am concerned by what the current owners are feeding them - rabbit mix, carrots and from what I can tell, nothing else bar a minimal amount of hay. I know how bad this is, and that I need to move them to a hay based diet asap when they come and live with us. So, the questions are as follows:
1. Can anyone recommend a good pellet and hay? We use Charnwood's for the chinchilla as it was recommended by the breeder - what is their rabbit food like?
2. What timescale should we use for moving from the old diet to the new?
and on treats:
3. Lots of books say I should use small treats to help with training but then on the same page say how careful I should be in feeding treats. Can you recommend some good treats that can be given fairly liberally? Juno is so very very timid that I am going to need some good bribery.
4. I am planning to grow some rye grass and some clover in a shallow seed tray in batches that I can then use as their "Sunday dinner". We have no lawn, so I thought that would be a good way to give the bunnies fresh clean grass. Any problems with doing that?
Thank you in advance!
Now I have a question about food!
I am concerned by what the current owners are feeding them - rabbit mix, carrots and from what I can tell, nothing else bar a minimal amount of hay. I know how bad this is, and that I need to move them to a hay based diet asap when they come and live with us. So, the questions are as follows:
1. Can anyone recommend a good pellet and hay? We use Charnwood's for the chinchilla as it was recommended by the breeder - what is their rabbit food like?
2. What timescale should we use for moving from the old diet to the new?
and on treats:
3. Lots of books say I should use small treats to help with training but then on the same page say how careful I should be in feeding treats. Can you recommend some good treats that can be given fairly liberally? Juno is so very very timid that I am going to need some good bribery.
4. I am planning to grow some rye grass and some clover in a shallow seed tray in batches that I can then use as their "Sunday dinner". We have no lawn, so I thought that would be a good way to give the bunnies fresh clean grass. Any problems with doing that?
Thank you in advance!