The right diet and high-quality food are the key to the long life of your pet. Decorative rabbit is referred to rodents, it should be fed by what they feed all other animals of this species. This pet needs to constantly grind his teeth, and therefore he must chew constantly. Vegetable food is not very nutritious, so you will have to feed your pet a lot.
How to feed domestic rabbits?
Now, in more detail, we can consider how to feed dwarf domestic rabbits:
- Hay. This is the basis of your pet's diet. Give it to kids and adults can be in unlimited quantities. Hay helps promote food through the intestines, helps to avoid the formation of lumps of wool in the stomach.
- Hardwood forage. Such an additive to the diet helps to improve the quality of digestibility of feeds, promotes healthy growth and development of the animal. Use aspen, linden, birch, maple and ash. Give the rabbit such breeds as apricot, elder, peach or plum is not recommended. On nutrition, this food is equated with meadow hay. The younger the twigs and leaves, the more nutrients the rabbit will receive.
- Concentrated feed. Offer the pet to eat oats, barley or corn. It is especially useful to give a rabbit oats, which has a beneficial effect on digestion. Try to give the animal leeward bread, sometimes pamper crumbs with oatmeal cookies.
- How correctly to feed rabbits with juicy forages? Carrots are best for this. It is also the most favorite delicacy. Try to offer a favorite apple, pear, watermelon or banana. But cabbage is better not to give, it often provokes diarrhea in rabbits.
How correctly to feed rabbits?
A few rules on how to properly feed rabbits:
- water and feed should only be of high quality;
- feed your pet at the same time;
- no matter what kind of food you choose, hay should be in the diet constantly;
- than feed small rabbits? Immediately after buying a pet, give him only that food to which the breeder has accustomed him;
- All fruits and vegetables are thoroughly washed and offered raw;
- the diet should be varied and balanced.
What can not feed rabbits?
If you decide to offer the animal some greens, avoid the following plants: dope, milestones, digitalis and belladonna, St. John's wort and horsetail. These plants are poisonous.
Never give a rabbit wet grass, it provokes upset stomach. If you did not follow, you can correct the situation with the help of leaves of oak, wormwood or chamomile.
The categorically you can not feed rabbits, so it's sweet. Sugar and products in which it is contained are strictly prohibited. Sugar for rabbit - the cause of dysbiosis, constipation and obesity.
Do not give the rabbit too much clover, it provokes bloating and gas formation. Rabbits love sainfoin seeds, but their excess is detrimental to animals. Than you can not feed a decorative rabbit, so it's white cabbage. And of course all
How many times to feed rabbits?
It was said above that rabbits are very hungry and need food constantly. The most important thing in this business is not to admit the obesity of the pet. It is better to pour a couple of spoons of food in the morning. If by evening the bowl is emptied, in the evening pour the same portion. If the animal left a little food, it makes sense to shift the diet. In the morning we pour one spoon, and by the evening already three. If the rabbit left food in the evening, then this portion can be reduced. If you do not comply with these rules, the rabbit will quickly start gaining excess weight, and later will begin to suffer from obesity.