Did you know that rabbits have intricate nutritional requirements? Irrespective of widespread misconceptions, the likes of carrots and fruit are actually bad for rabbits causing them to be overweight and giving them upset stomachs – they could even be potentially fatal. With this in mind you need to make sure you provide your bunny a good quality Rabbit Food.

Give a Rabbit plenty of Fibre

The most important part of your bunnies food plan is a combination of 2 types of fibre; digestible and indigestible. The first gives them important nutrition and the second maintains their digestive tract moving effectively.

Indigestible fibre moves around the digestive system and it’s excreted as separate, round, hard droppings. This method will keep the digestive system flowing and encourages their urge for food. Digestible fibre is forced upward directly into an organ referred to as the caecum – it’s similar to a gigantic appendix. Beneficial bacteria within the caecum ferment any fibre (which makes it easy to digest) which then emerges in the form of lumps of sticky droppings known as caecotrophs. Rabbits then re-eat the caecotrophs and their systems draw out important nutrition as the digestible fibre passes through the body for a subsequent time.

Failing to provide good servings of the appropriate fibre could swiftly cause sickness and also loss of life.

Stay away from Muesli – Type Food

Muesli- style foods are extremely detrimental to rabbits. Because they’re faddy eaters along with a really sweet tooth, rabbits pick out the junk bits of the food and leave the rest. This is known as selective eating and will undoubtedly lead to an imbalanced eating plan low in calcium mineral, phosphorous and vitamin D. Most importantly, this conduct leads to an absence of fibre with life-threatening consequences.  All the bad elements within muesli style meals tend to be high in sugar and starch and therefore are difficult for rabbits to digest, leading to health issues and morbid obesity. Due to the fact that rabbits eat caecotrophs directly from their underside, fat rabbits generally cannot reach the caecotrophs directly which could bring about malnutrition and death.