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.

The Rabbit Way

The Rabbit Way to 5 a Days

Not to be confused with 5 a day for human , The Rabbit Way to 5 a Days is very different. Fruit and vegetables for the rabbits do candies and chocolates that we ...

We humans are encouraged to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables every day. For some of us may struggle to rabbits but it will be a paradise on earth. Most rabbits tend to have a sweet tooth and adore something relatively high in sugar, such as bananas, carrots, apples and so on. 

What their rabbit candy to us and it is our responsibility as a rabbit owners to limit your intake of these foods. Too many of them and, like the man with the candy, while the waist will expand deteriorating teeth. 

This is not to say that we can not feed our rabbit food, but they should be seen as a treat only. Not only will this help your rabbit, it will also help your wallet - treats sold in petshops for rabbits tend to be high in sugar and low in nutrients, not to mention expensive, so instead of eating natural treats is a good idea. 

Treating an integral part of the lives of rabbits and has a variety of uses. For example, they can be used when training your rabbit for a simple voice command, as an inducement to rabbit overweight or lazy to exercise more (to hide them from rabbits), as a way to stimulate the nervous rabbit into a carrier or cage, or just as a reward for good behavior rabbit home. 

In the case of parts, the main bulk (approx. 80%) of the rabbit diet should always be of good quality hay. pellets (approx. 10%) and green, leafy vegetables (approx. 10%) were fed with this every day. Natural treats can be fed in small amounts such as a piece of banana at a time.

Abscesses In Rabbit

Abscesses

Mouth Abscesses

An abscess is a pocket of fluid and pus caused by a bacterial infection. Abscesses are relatively common in domestic rabbit ...

Description

An abscess is a pocket of fluid and pus caused by a bacterial infection. Abscesses are relatively common in domestic rabbits and can be placed anywhere on the body of the rabbit.

Abscesses can be caused by a bite, cut or other wound or occurs in the mouth due to dental disease. They can also be caused by foreign bodies such as grass seed or wood chips to be embedded in the skin of a rabbit or dessert.

Symptom

Mouth abscess

- Rabbits eat less or not at all, saliva or drop bits of food

Skin abscess

- Tumors that are hard on the body of the rabbit

Prevention / Treatment

First abscess must be drained of pus and fluid in it. This is usually done under general anesthesia. The area should be kept clean and sometimes have to stay open to allow the pus to reduce fully. Antibiotics are usually given to reduce infection.

Abscesses can be difficult to treat and can be painful for the rabbit so painkillers are often prescribed. The hospital stay is usually required.

Netherland Dwarf Rabbit

Netherland Dwarf

Netherland Dwarf

The Netherland Dwarf rabbits are one nation that is very small and has a dense, spherical appearance. They are timed, lively, active and love to climb.

Size: Dwarf

Hair type: Short

Origins

The Netherland Dwarf developed in the Netherlands in the 1930s from Poland White (England) and selected strains of wild rabbits. A breed standard was established in 1940, with a maximum weight of 1.5 kg and allows all colors are known. Netherland dwarf originally almost always the wild (Agouti) is gray, but the further development of the type produced in black, steel gray and sable color. Almost every color known since it was achieved through cross marriage. The Netherland Dwarf introduced to the UK during the 1940s and to the United States in the late 1960s and has become one of the most popular breeds in the world. Most rabbits sold in pet stores or Netherland Dwarf Netherland dwarf cross-breeds.

Appearance

The Netherland Dwarf is one of a very small range of special weight 700g-1.2kg (1 ½-2½lbs). 

The Netherland Dwarf has, compact spherical appearance. The body is short and wide with a round and short legs. Short head, large and round with a profile that is curved and small erect ears about 5cm (2in) long. 

The Netherland Dwarf have a short, soft hair.

Colour

• White (red or blue-eyed)
• Black
• Blue
• Brown
• Purple
• Sable Siam
• Siam Smoke Pearl
• Sable Point
• Tortoiseshell
• Agouti
• Chestnut
• Opal
• lynx
• chinchilla
• Squirrel
• Tan
• Fox
• Sable Marten
• Smoke Pearl Marten
• Silver Marten
• Otter
• Orange
• Fawn
• Steel
• Himalayan
• Broken Patterns

Netherland Dwarf

Temperament

Netherland Dwarf shy and live. Tenderness and understanding needed to win their confidence and bring out the best in their personalities. They are very active and playful, loves to hike and can be quite mischievous. Despite its small size, they require a lot of space because they like to run and can jump very high. Netherland Dwarf inappropriate with children. They tend to fear and can become aggressive. 

The Netherland Dwarf has a reputation for being nervous and aggressive. Originally from Poland was very lively (English) and wild rabbit, Netherland dwarf early enough 'wild' as most legacy behavior. Breeding stock is selected based on the characteristics and behavior Dwarf remained poor during the development of the breed. As the breed became established, many farmers put greater emphasis on temperament and Dwarf Netherlands have become somewhat calmer and kinder. Men tend to be more aggressive than women.

Special Requirements

Netherland Dwarf prone to dental disease , an often fatal inherited conditions . Select a rabbit with a good temperament and low risk of dental problems down - for generations , from the leading breeders or rescue centers

Mini Lop Rabbit

Miniature Lop ( UK )

Mini Lop (UK)

Miniature Lop breed profiles, most children of his lop-eared, known in the US as Holland Lop. Mini Lops are alive, active social and rabbits with a dense layer and a stocky build.

Size: Small / Medium

Hair type: Medium

Origins

The Lop Thumbnail in the UK fell from first dwarf Lops developed in the Netherlands in 1950, known as the Holland Lops or Dwarf Lops. 

Dutch rabbit judge and breeder, Adrianne de Cock, is generally credited with developing the Holland Lop. He set out to create a miniature French Lop, by crossing the Dutch Dwarf Lop France, and while this does not result in a lop-eared rabbit, go cross the English Lops proved to be more successful. It was difficult to breed Dwarf Lops were quite small, but also has a good ear car (the effect produced Netherland Dwarf rabbit, and also introduces a variety of colors, but resulted in numerous erect ears rabbit). 

Year careful selective breeding rabbits resulted in very similar in type to French Lop yet much smaller, and Holland Lops about 2 kg was first shown in 1964. These were imported to the UK in 1970, and selectively bred to produce Dwarf Lop breed in England , recognized in 1977 by the breed standard weight around 2 kg. Meanwhile, Holland Lop breed society was established in the Netherlands in 1970, with the aim of breeding Holland Lops to 1.5  kg. The smaller Holland Lops then imported into Britain in 1980, and grew up with the smallest of the established Dwarf Lop breed Mini Lop to develop. 

The Miniature Lop Rabbit recognized by the British Council in 1994, with a maximum weight of 1.6 kg, and although it shares a common origin with Dwarf Lop, is considered a separate breed. (Minimum weight for Dwarf Lop breed standard was increased to 1.9 kg in 2000, establishing a clear distinction between simple and clear image Lop heavier and bigger Dwarf Lop). The Miniature Lop, Mini Lop often called, has become one of the most popular pet breeds and events. (The Miniature Lop known as Holland Lop in the United States, the United States Mini Lop most similar to Dwarf Lop in English.)

Appearance

The Miniature Lop is the smallest of lop-eared breeds, weighs about 1.4-1.6kg (3-3½lbs). 

Miniature Lops have a stocky build, with short body, thick-set, round thighs and short, powerful legs.The head is broad with a highly curved profile, and, wide thick ear hanging on the side of the head.

Miniature Lops may be self-colored (solid color) or white patches on the head, chest and legs.

Miniature Lops have a dense coat of soft, medium-length hair.

Colour

• White
• Black
• Blue
• Brown
• Agouti
• Chinchilla
• Opal
• Sable Siam
• Siam smoke
• Sealpoint
• Sooty Fawn
• Fox
• Marten Sable
• Fawn
• Orange
• Steel
• Butterfly

Temperament

Small lops rabbit pretty lively , though generally good-natured and friendly. 

They are active , fun, and social and will thrive on attention .

Special Requirements

Mini Lops prone to dental disease , a fatal condition that is often inherited. 

Select a rabbit with a low risk of dental problems down - from generation to generation , from reputable breeders or rescue centers