:wave: yeah I'm having an exhausting time with my elder bun with not hay eating at the mo - he had a serious gut problem earlier in the year, this was bunny savy vet treated but his eating habits never really recovered fully so needed to tempt him with pellets, veg and carrot mashes etc. He now seems to be hooked on this diet and despite having tried what feels like every possible variant of hay he still only nibbles a few strands here and there.
I have recently had full body x-rays to include full scull to do crowns and roots and all has been fine - nothing suspicious found.
I've even tried smearing his carrot mash on hay but he just licks it off and ignores the hay:roll: lol
I have now resorted to some Timothy hay pellets from galens garden and watered these down to add to the carrot mash as he won't eat them otherwise.
Any suggestions re hay eating wud be really welcome - it's difficult to cut everything back as when he was poorly earlier in the year and more recently he had dropped in weight so it's a fine balance of how to proceed with him. He produces a regular but smallish amount of poos which I think is representative of what's going in more than anything else.
He will eat Fibre first, pro fibre Pellets, fresh clover, herbs but just not his hay.
One bunny who has his owner well trained me thinks lol:roll::roll::roll: - he is 9 years old so praps it's just an elderly bun thing but I worry about him - does anyone else have to feed a diet without hay please?