What to feed your pet rabbit?-Rabbits Diet Explained-Simple Knowlage and Must Know Facts

Rabbits Diet

A stable diet is the key to owning a healthy happy rabbit.  A rabbits diet affects how happy, energetic, and healthy your rabbit is on a day to day basis.  

Rabbits with a healthier diet tend to build a better relationship with there owner, life longer, and have lower stress levels than rabbits with a poor, less balanced diet.

Here are a list of some of the main foods your pet rabbit should be eating on a daily basis with little restrictions.

Rabbit Pellets-

 Quality rabbit pellets should have at least 15% of protein and a lot of vitamins.  A young rabbit 3-6 months old; should have about 1/2cp of pellets available per day.  An older rabbit 8 months and older should have 1cp of fresh pellets available to them every day.

A rabbit won't necessarily eat all of there pellets in one day.  For some large rabbits it is recommended to have unlimited amounts of pellets each day and for some they should have only a certain amount.

Of course, how much you feed your rabbit also depends on the breed, size, and how active your rabbit is.  

Larger rabbits might grow faster and therefore eat more vs. smaller breeds don't grow as much and so they don't need as much food.  Rabbits that have a lot of space to run around, play a lot, and are more stimulated, typically eat more too.

 

Hay-

Hay and pellets are both a Big, no. HUGE.  part of your rabbits diet.  

Hay is softer on your rabbits stomach.  In the wild rabbits would be eating grass, weeds, and flowers like all day long.  Make sure that you have large amounts of timothy hay, oat hay, orchard hay, and meadow hay available to your rabbit.  

Instead of eating a lot of food all at once rabbits snack throughout the day.  Rabbits have a smaller stomach.  That is why you should have certain foods available to them all of the time so when there hungry they can eat.  

Hay makes a great bedding for baby-adult rabbits.  Rabbits love to nest in hay.  You can even make toys for your pet rabbit out of hay!

Baby Spinach-

 Baby spinach and other leafy greens should make up at least 1/3 of your rabbits diet.

In the wild rabbits don't have to drink water as often because they attain there moisture from the foods that they eat.  Giving your rabbit leafy greens is a natural way for your rabbit to be getting water.  

But remember, rabbits should be given unlimited amounts of FRESH CLEAN water every day.  Just because your giving your rabbit a lot of spinach doesn't mean your rabbit doesn't need water.  Even wild rabbits drink water.

Lettuce-

 Lettuce can be kinda tricky.

Just like baby spinach lettuce is somewhat a main food group.  Lettuce should make up about 1/6 of your rabbits diet.  

Never give your rabbit Ice Burg Lettuce or light colored/white lettuce because of its high amounts of lactucarium.  Lactucarium is a white liquid that can be very harmful to your bunny's healthy if ingested.

Lettuce in general is more of a filler because it contains very little nutritional benefits but the right lettuce is not harmful to your rabbit.

Lettuce can be great for rabbits that are on a diet because it doesn't make them fat.  But lettuce should also be served with pellets and spinach.