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May 24th, 2010 by KittyKitty

Do you know that bunnies have delicate nutritional needs? Irrespective of popular beliefs, the likes of carrots and fruit are detrimental to bunnies causing them to be obese and giving them nauseous tums – they can even be potentially fatal. With this in mind you need to make sure you provide your bunny a good quality Rabbit Food.

Feed your Bunny lots of Fibre

The key to your bunnies diet regime is actually a combination of 2 varieties of fibre; digestible and indigestible. The first provides them essential vitamins and minerals and the 2nd helps to keep their digestive tract working efficiently.

Indigestible fibre travels all through their digestive system and is passed as separate, round, hard droppings. This method keeps the digestive system moving and additionally fuels their appetite. Digestible fibre is moved up directly into an organ called the caecum – it is just like a huge appendix. Good bacteria in the caecum ferment all the dietary fibre (so that it is easy to digest) which in turn emerges in the form of lumps of tactile droppings identified as caecotrophs. Rabbits then re-eat the caecotrophs and their internal systems draw out important nourishment when the digestible fibre moves through their body for a second time.

Failing to provide good portions of the right kind of fibre can swiftly lead to disease or even death.

Avoid Muesli – Type Food

Muesli- type foods are extremely detrimental to rabbits. As they are picky eaters with a rather sweet tooth, rabbits pick out the unhealthy elements in the food and then leave the rest. This is known as selective eating and will unsurprisingly lead to an imbalanced eating plan with a lack of calcium, phosphorous and vitamin D. Especially true, this kind of conduct causes an absence of fibre with potentially fatal implications.  The bad ingredients in muesli style meals tend to be full of sugars and starch and so are hard for rabbits to break down, leading to health issues and morbid obesity. Because of the fact that rabbits feed on caecotrophs from their bottoms, over weight rabbits often can’t reach the caecotrophs directly which could contribute to malnutrition and even death.