Using Science Selective as a critical care

[Athinlayeroffur]

One of my bunnies has teeth and roots issues and although she’ll eat her veggies and a bowl of Science Selective with added water, at night, her eating is less reliable in the day. Consequently I give her some Emeraid Herbivore a couple of times a day, otherwise she often doesn’t eat enough and her poos are smaller. She has Loxicom twice daily.

I’ve just realised we haven’t got a spare bag on Emeraid and even with express post, with bank holidays, it’s likely to be Thursday, or more likely Friday, or even Saturday until we can get some more delivered.

We have some Oxbow, but she’s really not keen and gets quite upset, so until then, do I try the Supreme or Excel critical care, which I can have delivered tomorrow with Amazon Prime, or do I just try to liquify the Science Selective and syringe her that? She’s an easily overwhelmed bunny, so there’s a big worry that the Supreme and Excel critical care will distress her too. One of the best things about the Emeraid is that she likes it.

 

[InspectorMorse]

Just make a liquid feed using the SS pellets. I soak them in boiled water and when soft I mash them up, adding more water if needs be to make the feed to a consistency suitable to syringe feed.

 

[Athinlayeroffur]

Just make a liquid feed using the SS pellets. I soak them in boiled water and when soft I mash them up, adding more water if needs be to make the feed to a consistency suitable to syringe feed.

Thank you. Emeraid has been such a game changer, because the bunnies actually like it. I thought it would be better to at least use something she likes the taste of. I wouldn’t have use boiled water, so that’s a great tip, thank you. Obviously, I’ll make sure it’s cooled down before feeding.

 

[dollyanna]

I've been using it for Odin, but instead of soaking them whole I whizzed them up in a little food chopper (or food processor) and then could mix with cold water as needed. They whizz down really well, and it meant I could do a small storage box of it ready for a few days. I also whizzed up some readigrass to add to it at times to increase the grass/hay intake.

 

[joey&boo]

I used to grind up loads of SS with some dried forage

She sounds like a bunny knows her own mind. I hope she takes to them ok

 

[bunny momma]

I use small coffee/spice grinder to pulverize pellets and mix with warm water and or diluted juice.

 

[Athinlayeroffur]

I've been using it for Odin, but instead of soaking them whole I whizzed them up in a little food chopper (or food processor) and then could mix with cold water as needed. They whizz down really well, and it meant I could do a small storage box of it ready for a few days. I also whizzed up some readigrass to add to it at times to increase the grass/hay intake.

Thank you. I’ve never thought of using readigrass in this way. I’ll definitely give that a try. She won’t eat hay, not even readigrass ��, so this might be nice for her.