Domestic rabbits can live up to 10-12 years. But that the pet stayed with you so long term, without being ill and keeping cheerful nature inherent in it, the small animal needs to be fed correctly. Do not give it some delicacy from the table – rabbits need the full-fledged and balanced food.
It is required to you
- - hay;
- - branches;
- - root crops;
- - ready mineral fertilizing;
- - fruit;
- - fresh grass and germinated oats;
- - water.
Instruction
1. A basis of a rabbit diet – the forages rich with cellulose. They are divided into rough and juicy. The most necessary to rabbits a rough forage – hay, it has to make more than a half of a diet of a small animal. Quality hay can be bought or prepared independently. You watch that in storage time it did not grow mouldy, – such forage can be dangerous.
2. Except hay regularly feed to a rabbit of a branch: birch, willow or aspen. It is possible to offer in the winter the pet of a branch of a pine or fir-tree as the fresh needles will positively affect digestion of a small animal. Also grain, especially oats will not prevent, it can be given several times a week.
3. Regularly feed to pets fresh root crops. They need to be washed up, but it is not recommended to clean because with a peel and parts of the earth the rabbits receive valuable nutrients. Offer animals carrots, potato, swede, turnip. Cut vegetables large pieces and in process of eating enclose in a feeding trough.
4. Many rabbits with pleasure eat cabbage. However from surplus of a white cabbage at them the stomach can fail. During a season it is possible to diversify a diet of a small animal with fresh leaves of beet, a dandelion, fresh acorns or a rowan.
5. The real delicacy for small animals – fresh fruit. Indulge pets with apple, pear or a slice of a melon. Very much rabbits and bread love. Before feeding it, dry chunks – fresh pastries are harmful to animals. Do not give to pets ready croutons with sugar, salt and aromatic additives.
6. For providing with vitamins and minerals the rabbits need ready fertilizing from grains with mineral additives. Buy a ready briquette or a stick in pet-shop and from time to time enclose it in a cage. Some small animals like to gnaw chalk, do not refuse to them this pleasure.
7. Thinking over the menu, do not forget to organize the correct drinking mode for the pet. The rabbit constantly needs fresh water. Strengthen a drinking bowl in a cage, it is much more convenient also gigiyenichny than a usual bowl. Regularly check water level and add fresh.