Rabbit Diet

The Correct Diet For Rabbit

Hay For Rabbit

Eating the right foods is important for your rabbit health and welfare and should comprise about 80% hay, 10% and 10% dry food, fresh food ...

Eating the right foods is important for your rabbit's health and welfare. Poor diet can lead to obesity, dental disease problems. Domestic rabbit diet should consist of about 80% hay, 10% dry food (commercial rabbit food) and fresh foods 10% (vegetables, fruits, etc.).

Quantities

Rabbits should be fed about their own body volume in hay every day - the haystack of your rabbit. Meanwhile you can feed around. 1 eggcup full of dry food and a variety of fresh vegetables. Dark, green leafy vegetables such as spring and savoy cabbage and carrots as possible and should be seen as a treat because they are high in sugar.

How the rabbit digestive system

Rabbits thrive working on grass only diet, high in fiber but poor in nutrients. To maximize the benefits of their food, some of which will pass through their system twice until they get a "second shot" in absorbing nutrients from it. To keep the bowel moving well rabbit they need to digest and digest fiber mixture. When rabbits eat some food, they enter the intestine and go one of two ways. Indigestible fiber passed through and come out hard, round stools. Move digested fiber to organ called the cecum where the bacteria are working on it, fermentation and makes it easier to digest. It came out as a lump of feces stick called caecotrophs, the rabbit take and swallow directly from below.

Importance of hay

Hay is the closest thing to a natural diet of grass rabbits only. It is high in fiber to make their digestive system running smoothly and grinds down your teeth. As rabbits teeth grow continuously throughout their lives, without the fibrous material they wear down teeth can become too large, causing pain and discomfort for rabbits and even prevent them altogether.

Fresh Food Rabbit ( Carrot )

Dry and fresh food

Theoretically Rabbits can receive everything they need from a good quality hay and fresh but dry food benefical to provide vitamins, nutrients and bacteria-friendly and also provide a bit of variety to the diet of rabbits. Rabbits tend to have a sweet tooth so the food is always very gratefully accepted, but must be seen more as an adjunct to the rabbit main diet of hay. 

Each rabbit diet change should be done gradually to allow time to adjust the rabbit stomach and it is a good idea to consult your veterinarian first. Always make sure that the hay and fresh water freely available at all times.