Hello everyone,
This thread concerns my recently adopted rabbit Plumpkin, who has had two dental surgeries so far (including the removal of two teeth) and is likely to need another soon to help things straighten out.
Whilst my girlie is looking a lot brighter in general, she still doesn't touch hay, and seems to lack the capacity to eat grass. We had to mow her run area today because she can't keep it down and the grass was growing taller than her.
I know that bunnies are meant to have 80% of their diet hay & grass based. So this is obviously a concern to me. But it may be that because of her disfigured jaw, she'll never be able to eat hay or grass in the normal way. This is her diet at the moment:
Morning: 1. A Large cereal sized bowl of fresh veggies (cabbage, kale, spinach, cauliflower leaves, a small amount of carrot and broccoli)
2. A large egg cup's worth of Harringtons pellets
3. 2 x Fibafirst sticks
Evening: 1. Fresh forage (usually brambles, dandelions and herb robert) - a reasonable handful which I pick on my evening walk
2. 1x Fibafirst stick
Just Before Bed: Another large egg cup of pellets
I'm struggling to find a huge amount of information on what to feed a bunny who can't necessarily process grass, and would love any sort of advice that anyone may have on here. Plumps is a little less bony, but still very underweight. I worry about her all of the time. I'm praying that when she's bonded with the other two she picks up eating hay and grass from them, but I understand that it might not be a lack of wanting to so much as a physical disability because her jaw is wonky.
Any advice is very much appreciated, thank you everyone.
This thread concerns my recently adopted rabbit Plumpkin, who has had two dental surgeries so far (including the removal of two teeth) and is likely to need another soon to help things straighten out.
Whilst my girlie is looking a lot brighter in general, she still doesn't touch hay, and seems to lack the capacity to eat grass. We had to mow her run area today because she can't keep it down and the grass was growing taller than her.
I know that bunnies are meant to have 80% of their diet hay & grass based. So this is obviously a concern to me. But it may be that because of her disfigured jaw, she'll never be able to eat hay or grass in the normal way. This is her diet at the moment:
Morning: 1. A Large cereal sized bowl of fresh veggies (cabbage, kale, spinach, cauliflower leaves, a small amount of carrot and broccoli)
2. A large egg cup's worth of Harringtons pellets
3. 2 x Fibafirst sticks
Evening: 1. Fresh forage (usually brambles, dandelions and herb robert) - a reasonable handful which I pick on my evening walk
2. 1x Fibafirst stick
Just Before Bed: Another large egg cup of pellets
I'm struggling to find a huge amount of information on what to feed a bunny who can't necessarily process grass, and would love any sort of advice that anyone may have on here. Plumps is a little less bony, but still very underweight. I worry about her all of the time. I'm praying that when she's bonded with the other two she picks up eating hay and grass from them, but I understand that it might not be a lack of wanting to so much as a physical disability because her jaw is wonky.
Any advice is very much appreciated, thank you everyone.