My bun.
Hello, I just joined because I got a baby bunny on the 1st. She was born on a farm and destined to be a meat rabbit so when my class went there on a field trip, I brought home her home for 5 bucks. I have had many small animals in the past but this is my first bunny, though I'd read about them and always wanted one from the time I was a little girl.
She is brown and I'd guess she was about 4 weeks old when I got her. She'd just been weaned from Mom (and early, from what I've read!) but she's been eating fine on her own and all systems are working well. She's grown like a weed in the past two weeks! When I first got her she was small enough to hold in one hand; now she's almost too big for two. Mom was about 10-12 pounds and Dad was smaller. They were really backyard breeders, unforunately.
Abbey is her name. I have her in a big bunny cage now with lots of roam-time, but I'm building her a run in my house and litter-training her. She's going to have her own room when we buy a house in a year or so.
I just have one quick question, besides my hello:
I'm feeding her Timothy hay (we've got goats so we have that in generous supply, luckily) compressed alfalfa blocks with no additives, a baby carrot every couple of days, and rabbit pellets (the plainest ones I could find with no seeds or little designer crunchy pieces.) Though she gets a very small bowl of them a day, she devours the pellets as soon as I put down the bowl in the morning. She loves the carrots, and nibbles a little at the alfalfa and timothy hay. Should I cut down on her pellets more or is this okay? I've read in different places that they're bunny junk-food so I don't want her too addicted to them, but at the same time I don't want her to go hungry. What's a good balance?
EDIT://
I went looking back through the last entries and found some posts on food with websites. I'll cut down on the carrots, goodness! Though she hasn't had any runny stool at all, I want to be careful...
She is brown and I'd guess she was about 4 weeks old when I got her. She'd just been weaned from Mom (and early, from what I've read!) but she's been eating fine on her own and all systems are working well. She's grown like a weed in the past two weeks! When I first got her she was small enough to hold in one hand; now she's almost too big for two. Mom was about 10-12 pounds and Dad was smaller. They were really backyard breeders, unforunately.
Abbey is her name. I have her in a big bunny cage now with lots of roam-time, but I'm building her a run in my house and litter-training her. She's going to have her own room when we buy a house in a year or so.
I just have one quick question, besides my hello:
I'm feeding her Timothy hay (we've got goats so we have that in generous supply, luckily) compressed alfalfa blocks with no additives, a baby carrot every couple of days, and rabbit pellets (the plainest ones I could find with no seeds or little designer crunchy pieces.) Though she gets a very small bowl of them a day, she devours the pellets as soon as I put down the bowl in the morning. She loves the carrots, and nibbles a little at the alfalfa and timothy hay. Should I cut down on her pellets more or is this okay? I've read in different places that they're bunny junk-food so I don't want her too addicted to them, but at the same time I don't want her to go hungry. What's a good balance?
EDIT://
I went looking back through the last entries and found some posts on food with websites. I'll cut down on the carrots, goodness! Though she hasn't had any runny stool at all, I want to be careful...