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It’s 🐰‘Rabbit Awareness Week’🐰 and this year’s theme is #HealthyDiet, HappyBunnies
Should I feed my rabbit nuggets or muesli?
Muesli encourages selective feeding. Rabbits tend to eat the 🍭high sugar, high starch components of the muesli diet. This can lead to obesity, dental disease and an unbalanced diet.
❓Did you know: you only need to feed 1 egg cup/kg/day of nuggets and nuggets should only make up 5% of a rabbits overall diet. The more nuggets they eat, the less hay they eat, and as we've covered hay is a very important part of a rabbit’s diet.🌱🌾
It’s 🐰‘Rabbit Awareness Week’🐰 and this year’s theme is #HealthyDiet, HappyBunnies.
Like everything in life, vegetables need to be fed in moderation and ideally a variety of them. We would advise at least a variety of 5️⃣ different fruit and vegetables daily.
🥦🥬🫑🥕A rough guide is to feed your rabbit at least a cup full per day. A maximum of 5-10% of a rabbit’s daily diet should be vegetables, from kale to green peppers or even mint. We would advise against feeding carrots (and other sweet foods like apple) more than once a week, as they are high in sugar.🥦🥬🥕🫑
Below is a link of vegetables that your rabbit can eat available from ‘The Rabbit Welfare Association and Fund’.
⌨️https://rabbitwelfare.co.uk/recommended-vegetables-and-herbs/
It’s 🐰‘Rabbit Awareness Week’🐰 and this year’s theme is #HealthyDiet, HappyBunnies
🌾🌱Hay is just grass that has been cut and left to dry out. It has the same health and digestive benefits that fresh grass does. There are many different hays available; popular feeding types include meadow, timothy, oat, and orchard grass. Any of these hays will provide a good source of indigestible fibre for your rabbit’s diet, as well as daily access to fresh grass.
(Please note, alfalfa hay as it is high in calcium so this should only be fed as a treat).
Feeding hay is nutritionally rich and high in fibre, its dust extracted, so less likely to affect their breathing, it is lush and green in colour. Whereas, bedding hay is comfortable to sleep on and provides insulation; however, its nutritional value is usually unknown and tends to be less tasty. It is usually dusty and yellow or brown in colour.
🦷Rabbit’s teeth, grow every day and on average 4mm a week. Diet is the main way we help prevent their teeth from over growing. By eating hay rabbits will naturally burr their teeth to a normal length. Unfortunately, pellets and muesli won’t wear your rabbit’s teeth down, which is why it is so important that grass and hay make up a high percentage of your rabbit’s overall diet.🌾🌱
