So, you want to get yourself a pet, but you know that with a cat or dog is too much trouble. There are, of course, other options, fish, for example, or reptiles. However, they are not so attached to the owner and respond worse to care. There is a wonderful little pet, a charming creature, pretty and smart. This is a rabbit.
"What does this furry eared beast eat?" - One of the first questions of the future owner of the rabbit. There is nothing super complicated in its feeding, but some things need to be known.
First of all, who is a rabbit? What an animal eats always depends on its belonging to one or another food group of living organisms. Big-eared babies -
rodents, they are herbivores. They have a large intestine, specially adapted for the digestion of a significant amount of plant nutrition. Since the latter is low-calorie, it is not surprising that the rabbit devotes most of his life to eating. And what does he use mostly? The rabbit eats grass, this is not a secret. However, it is impossible to feed the animal green grass all year round, since in winter it is difficult to get it, therefore, hay is used for feeding.
What do decorative rabbits eat? Let's consider it in more detail. As already mentioned, hay is an integral part of the diet, it should always be in the animal. You can buy it, or you can harvest it yourself, only the place where you get the grass from should be clean, without chemicals, far from roads and livestock farms.
But not only hay eats a long-eared creature - a rabbit. What does an animal eat except grass? There are concentrates and
feed for rabbits. They consist of cereals (oats, corn, barley), they are enough only two tablespoons a day for the baby to get the necessary nutrients.
Mandatory in the diet are green vegetables, fruits and greens, such as spinach, mint, celery, apples, lettuce, broccoli, peas, basil, parsley, carrot tops, beets, beans, watermelon, bananas. Zucchini and pumpkin can cause diarrhea, and cabbage also provokes flatulence. It is better to alternate products every day.
Rabbits are given small twigs and leaves of acacia, willow, apple, maple, linden, ash, pine needles of juniper, pine and spruce. Birch can be fed in limited quantities, oak and alder are given when the animal has diarrhea. Green grass is eaten with pleasure by pets, only you need to carefully check it so that there are no poisonous plants. It is best if it is forbs. You can rabbits Vika, plantain, sow thistle, wild clover, nettle, alfalfa, dandelion.
It is necessary to add vitamin-mineral mixtures to the pet in the diet to fill the need for these important substances. Remember that decorative rabbits cannot be sweet!
For drinking, they recommend that the water is settled or filtered, not boiled or mineral. Drinkers every day need to be washed and doused with boiling water.
What do rabbits eat?
What if a rabbit baby appears in your house? What does a long-eared furry pet eat when it is very small? Like an adult animal, the baby needs plenty of hay. Vegetables and green grass are introduced into the diet when the rabbit is older than 4 months. They start feeding with carrots and apples. New foods are introduced slowly, as rabbits are sensitive to diet changes. Immediately after buying a rabbit, you need to feed about two weeks the same food that he received earlier. Wean him gradually.