Rabbit Care 101:
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Food, Water, and Other Necessities
Food and water are by far the most important resouses that your rabbit will need. The best quality food means that your rabbit will be healthy and active. My rabbits eat Buckeye brand rabbit pellets. Watch out for food that is too old (over three months old) and for food with any ash content. Pellets should be a deep green, not a washed out brown color, and should have very few fines (powder or dust from the feed.)
They should have clean drinking crocks or water bottles and water daily.
**NOTE** Rabbits are not to have cabbage or iceberg lettuce! These can kill a rabbit as they can get diarheah from them, this causes dehydration and death! If you want to give a treat, I have some listed below>
  Sweets and Treats: Like any good pet owner you want your pet to have the best. here are some treats that are nutritios for your pet that most of them will love!

Sticky yummies:
1 cup unsalted in-shell sunflower seeds
1 cup of rolled oats (oatmeal uncooked)
1/2 cup of wild bird seed
1/2 cup of Doc's Rabbit Enhancer or showbloom
1 cup of honey or molasses

mix all dry ingreediants together until well distributed.
Add in the honey or molasses untill it has a tacky consistancy. This may call for a little more or less of the sticky stuff.
Roll into little balls and put on a cookie sheet. immediately refrigerate or freeze. Feed to rabbit once or twice a week


You can also give them any of the above ingreediants separately. About 1 Tablespoon total per day.
You can give them small amounts of carrott or apple(no seeds!) every couple of days. Dandilion greens are also popular, but don't give them very much.

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  Bedding and cages: I have learned over time that pine woodshavings or the new pelleted bedding are the best for cages with drop pans. It is also good if you can find a cage with a plastic drop pan as to metal because the plastic doesn't rust, the metal pans will. Plastic pans will save you the expense of buying a new pan every two years, they are very durable.
My cages are made from 1X2"wire for the sides, top and door, and 1/2X1" wire for the part their feet sit on. You may want to provide a piece of drywall for the rabbit to sit upon. It keeps them from getting a condition known as sore hocks, and they can safely chew it with no side effects. Make sure there is no paint on it however. I would suggest NOT putting a carpet square in the cage with the rabbit. If they ingest(eat) the carpet, it can get caught in the intestine and cause a very very painful death. it is not pretty. They go off their food and won't drink and basically starve to death, but the whole while they are writhing in pain, and contract an infection in the bowel.

 



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