I went to feed the buns this morning and found the biggest pile of cecotropes I've seen so far, this time on Hamilton and Jellybean's side We haven't had any for days and I thought we'd finally sorted things out.
Lily and Maple have been having just fresh parsely and coriander for breakfast (a really small amount of Parsley because someone said about it being toxic in large amounts, so just one long stalk each) - no cabbage for them anymore. Lily doesn't seem to do her scrunchy stomach anymore, but her poops are still egg shaped.
It's the same for Hamilton and Jellybean, although I'm still giving cabbage in small amounts. They were actually fine with just cabbage, so now I'm wondering if the fresh herbs are causing the cecos. Jellybean has been doing a bit of scrunching up after eating greens now, but only for 2 minutes and then she's fine.
I'm trying to work out if there's anything else that could have caused the cecotropes. They're mainly eating timothy hay now, as they seem to have gone off of meadow hay. Would that make any difference? They are only getting a very small amount, an egg cup of extruded pellets each.
I'm getting so stressed over the fresh greens that I'm wondering whether to cut them out completely and buy a bulk of dried herbs. They're used to getting 'breakfast' first thing in the morning, and it keeps them busy outside whilst I clean out the shed. So I don't really want to change that routine.
I wonder if two factors could be contributing - 1 that the garden has been a bog for the past couple of months, so much rainfall - just mud and no gras in their run. Lily's poops were normal in the summer when she was eating grass daily. 2 - could the cold be slowing their digestion down? And therefore causing cecos?
I should emphasise that they are generally really happy, energetic bunnies, I just feel totally thrown off by these cecotropes because after more than three years of bunny ownership, I have never seen them, so I am wondering what's going wrong there.
What would you do in my shoes?
Lily and Maple have been having just fresh parsely and coriander for breakfast (a really small amount of Parsley because someone said about it being toxic in large amounts, so just one long stalk each) - no cabbage for them anymore. Lily doesn't seem to do her scrunchy stomach anymore, but her poops are still egg shaped.
It's the same for Hamilton and Jellybean, although I'm still giving cabbage in small amounts. They were actually fine with just cabbage, so now I'm wondering if the fresh herbs are causing the cecos. Jellybean has been doing a bit of scrunching up after eating greens now, but only for 2 minutes and then she's fine.
I'm trying to work out if there's anything else that could have caused the cecotropes. They're mainly eating timothy hay now, as they seem to have gone off of meadow hay. Would that make any difference? They are only getting a very small amount, an egg cup of extruded pellets each.
I'm getting so stressed over the fresh greens that I'm wondering whether to cut them out completely and buy a bulk of dried herbs. They're used to getting 'breakfast' first thing in the morning, and it keeps them busy outside whilst I clean out the shed. So I don't really want to change that routine.
I wonder if two factors could be contributing - 1 that the garden has been a bog for the past couple of months, so much rainfall - just mud and no gras in their run. Lily's poops were normal in the summer when she was eating grass daily. 2 - could the cold be slowing their digestion down? And therefore causing cecos?
I should emphasise that they are generally really happy, energetic bunnies, I just feel totally thrown off by these cecotropes because after more than three years of bunny ownership, I have never seen them, so I am wondering what's going wrong there.
What would you do in my shoes?
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