lottielouise
Wise Old Thumper
the babies have all tumbled out of the nest this morning, and are everywhere!!
They have been chomping on hay the past few days and have jumped in the pellet bowl this morning Do I need to increase the pellets now that babies have started to eat them too? I have been giving a small rabbit bowl of pellets daily since mum kindled, slowly moving her over to excel from A+P. Today is the first day of all excel and the babies are eating it too.
Is this the start of the weaning process?? Mum is less interested in giving them milk and flicks them off, or was in the 5 minute I have just seen. She has a couple of high spots where she can go to to escape them.
Also, the babies seemed quite shocked by my presence this morning, and all went into hiding, is this normal? do I just keep going with handling them?
Also are the babies allowed on the grass, I normally let mum out every day, but with babies out and about moving, I don't think this is safe because of their size, but also because they have not had grass before. But mum has been...
They have been chomping on hay the past few days and have jumped in the pellet bowl this morning Do I need to increase the pellets now that babies have started to eat them too? I have been giving a small rabbit bowl of pellets daily since mum kindled, slowly moving her over to excel from A+P. Today is the first day of all excel and the babies are eating it too.
Is this the start of the weaning process?? Mum is less interested in giving them milk and flicks them off, or was in the 5 minute I have just seen. She has a couple of high spots where she can go to to escape them.
Also, the babies seemed quite shocked by my presence this morning, and all went into hiding, is this normal? do I just keep going with handling them?
Also are the babies allowed on the grass, I normally let mum out every day, but with babies out and about moving, I don't think this is safe because of their size, but also because they have not had grass before. But mum has been...