Feeding rabbit: A way for a healthy and happy rabbit


Feeding your rabbit is easy as you can imagine. You don’t have to spend more time preparing their food. You don’t also have to wait and watch them as they eat totally less worry and easy to do. Right feeding is not just about how you can ease from the job but to make sure that you can give them healthy and proper food with the appropriate way of feeding and preparation.

Feeding with right methods is necessary to make sure that your rabbit are in good health. Give your rabbi fruits and vegetables but give them more hay and pellets. Feeding takes time and requires a set of healthy food for your rabbit. I always consider my rabbit’s diet because I prove it before that letting them fat won’t do any good, read my story about my fat rabbit.

The facts and links below will point out some interesting information about rabbit feeding.
First of all don’t let your rabbit eat too much just give them enough for the whole day. This is one of the mistakes that a rabbit producers and pet owners mostly overlooked. Overfeed rabbit may get sick and a fat one is less efficient in production.

1.    Keep the rabbit food away from crawling insects that may contaminated or damp the feeds.

2.    Always remember that sudden change of diet may cause diarrhea be careful what you are feeding to your rabbit.

3.    Give your rabbit more timothy hay with plenty of pellets and vegetables. Hay is also high in fiber and it can help your rabbit to digest their food easily.

4.    Give fresh drinking water every day.

5.    Always keep the feeding bowls and water container clean. Avoid using heavy bowls, can, and crocks that easily became dirty. Use aluminum water dispenser rather than bowl as water container so that fur will not mix with the water. Fur can be a problem of intestinal blockage, the dispenser is not that expensive plus it allows me to supply water without opening the cage.

6.    Don’t ever try to feed your rabbit with meat or fish. Rabbit is vegetarian and eat numerous foods such as fruits and vegetables. Serve them only those with high in fibers that is good for food digestion.

7.    Before giving your rabbit anything to eat makes sure that it’s always fresh. Don’t feed them fruits or vegetables with indication of spoiling because it will cause your rabbit to get sick.

8.    Feed your rabbit in morning and late afternoon.

9.    Aside of feeding your rabbits with other supplements still consider feeding them pellets. Pellets contain all the nutrients that a rabbit need.

10.  Find a trusted seller that can provide you with pellets that contains enough level of protein.

Costs for feeding covers 75% of rabbit’s production cost, so make sure that you don’t spoiled anything by feeding faulty food. Remember don’t let your rabbit eat as much as they want for the whole day. Health problems occur when rabbit’s feeding routine was not set or properly implement. “Fat rabbit is unhealthy”, always remember that. Obesity has a great impact in both physical and mental healthiness of rabbit. If your rabbit suffer in this condition, laziness may experience and due to inactivity or lack of exercise rabbit reflexes becomes weak. Remember that a proper diet is the key to a good health.

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