I just got pair of bunnies recently... when I got them, they are used to eat pallets as their daily meal and small amount of carrots... but then I was out of pellets, so I start to feed them with water spinach and they tend to like it so... I just fed them mostly with that plus some other vegetables including carrots... The problem is I just bought a new pack of pellets and they dont eat at all. I asked the keeper at the pet shop they say just let them be eventually they will eat it... but I leave them without any food besides the pellets for hours but still they havent eat. Then I resort back to feed them with raw vegetables. So how to make them to eat pellets... They can't just eat vegetables

kinda in doubt to spend 20 bucks on hay, in case they dont like it too, ill give it a try later

I always let go my bunnies play around my house yard from morning till evening except when nobody is home. In evening I will catch or lure them back to cage. But my bunnies dug a burrow hole few months ago, last when I checked, it isn't deep. So I just let them be.

Unexpectedly today 2 little bunnies popped up out of the burrow. I was like WTF! I don't even know one of my bunnies gave birth?. These little ones can even walk around already. Wow I'm quite amazed how these little ones survived even I keep their mom in cage at night. They are probably few or several days old already? Or maybe weeks old?

These little ones dont seem to cosume anything else except milk. Hmm...

This post has been edited by Vigilant: Jun 22 2010, 08:31 PM

Refering to my post #970

Any experienced breeder or keeper can advice me? I don't see their moms are feeding them regularly. FYI now I keep them in the same cage with their moms. But I don't see their mom are feeding them much. Most of the time these baby bunnies are forced to feed when their mom is in standing position. Unlike cat mom, the rabbit mom doesn't lay down properly, the down/bottom side of the body of the rabbit mom is not in the correct way for the babies to feed.

Any suggestion? After I have reviewed some baby rabbits picture based on their age on the internet, I assume that these littles ones are around 2 weeks old.

This post has been edited by Vigilant: Jun 23 2010, 05:50 PM

Thanks for the advice.

(Pic courtesy of the internet)

Hi refering to above picture (not mine)

My baby rabbits, all of them got infected by this kind of disease, it looks exactly like that. What is this? Does this can be healed by itself? Or do I need to buy certain meds or get to the vet promptly? Thanks in advance.

So there is no other solution? Vet is expensive, I thought I can get somekind of meds for them and can be taken orally.

I dont know. They just got the disease suddenly, start of with one rabbit, then the others. My rabbits do eat flowers.

Eventually when rabbit get older, it will grow longer.

Took em to vet, its not mange... that was just an assumption. But it's still somekind of infection and required the doctor to give injections. Their parents dont have this, only 2 (baby bunnies) out of 6 of total of my rabbits have this.

I don't intentionally breed them, I had them caged/roam separately for each gender. But sometimes carelessness just happen

When I said vet is expensive, I'm refering to the vets nearby, they are generally expensive, there are others (vet) that is more keen on healing animals than racking up profits, but most are far away. Other than rabbits I have cats too, so meeting a vet isn't really a rare ocassion

This post has been edited by Vigilant: Aug 15 2010, 12:42 AM